Pete Hegseth has been taking a sledgehammer to the woke mind virus infecting the military.
Whoopi Goldberg watched it and decided to explain the military to a combat veteran.
The washed up comedian ended up with egg on her face after she tried to deliver a history lecture.
Pete Hegseth's West Point Speech on DEI and Combat Readiness
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered the commencement address to West Point's Class of 2026 on Saturday – standing in the pouring rain in front of 998 new Army officers.
He attacked the DEI bureaucracy that had infected West Point's classrooms.
"They hired professors who advocated for anti-American ideologies right here in these halls," Hegseth told the graduates.
"The battlefield does not grade on a curve, and you can't throw your pronouns at the enemy," he said.
He told the new officers they were "not an army of woke" – they were "an army of warriors."
Then he dropped a number that explained everything.
The Army hit its 2026 recruiting goals four months ahead of schedule – the second consecutive record year after Biden-era failures when the military couldn't fill its ranks.
Young Americans stopped enlisting when the Pentagon cared more about pronoun training than combat readiness.
They came back the moment it didn't.
How The View Responded to the West Point Speech
Whoopi Goldberg went on The View and decided Hegseth's speech was an attack on the military's demographics.
"I just want to remind everyone that the military is diverse," she said, citing statistics that women make up 21% of active-duty forces alongside other figures.
Then she asked the question that will follow her.
"Can it be he doesn't know his history? Does he not know there was a time when women couldn't get into that school?"
Joy Behar offered a qualifier: "He's not stupid."
That opened the door for Goldberg: "Well… is he just… dumb?"
Hegseth never said a word about women or minorities in the military.
He said professors were teaching anti-American ideology at West Point – documented fact – and that combat readiness matters more than pronoun training.
The History Lesson She Missed
Goldberg asked whether Hegseth knows there was a time women couldn't get into West Point.
West Point admitted women in 1976.
Pete Hegseth was born in 1980.
He has literally never known a West Point without women.
Goldberg was born in 1955.
She's the one old enough to remember that era.
He's the one who deployed to Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, earned two Bronze Stars, spent years fighting for veterans, and now runs the entire Department of Defense.
She co-hosts a daytime talk show where they scream at the TV.
Goldberg asked if Hegseth is dumb about military service.
The man she aimed that at has forgotten more about the U.S. Army than she has ever known.
Whoopi Goldberg's Pattern of Getting Military Facts Wrong
This is not the first time Goldberg has been confidently wrong about the military.
In April, she told The View audience that Trump was "planning a draft" to fight Iran.
There was no draft.
Her own co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin corrected her on air.
Goldberg repeated the claim anyway – louder.
The pattern isn't occasional sloppiness.
Hear something involving Trump and the military, assume the worst, state it as fact, ignore correction, repeat.
In March she told Hegseth — on air — that he was "sending people in to die" in Iran without a plan.
Hegseth had just overseen the operation that sank the Iranian Navy.
The View spent the segment questioning whether the Secretary of War has the intelligence to do his job.
The Army just enrolled 61,500 new soldiers who apparently disagree.
Sources:
- Pete Hegseth, "Commencement Address to the West Point Class of 2026," RealClearPolitics, May 23, 2026.
- Kiara Moore, "Whoopi Goldberg responds to Pete Hegseth's military comments," Washington Examiner, May 26, 2026.
- "Hegseth praises West Point cadets as 'not an army of woke' in commencement speech," Washington Examiner, May 23, 2026.
- "U.S. Army Crushes 2026 Recruiting Goal Months Ahead Of Schedule," Big League Politics, May 24, 2026.
- "Whoopi Goldberg claims Trump planning military draft amid Iran war," Washington Times, April 21, 2026.
- "The First Class of Women at West Point," National Museum of the United States Army, 1980.