Whoopi Goldberg Defends Flag-Burners: 'They Don't Hate This Country!'

Kristine Marsh | November 29, 2016
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Tuesday on ABC’s The View, the panel opened by discussing Donald Trump’s recent tweets that threatened to jail or revoke citizenship to people who burned the American flag. While the whole panel agreed that this punishment would be a violation of the First Amendment, co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg went out of her way to defend the action of flag burning in the first place. When co-host Paula Faris stated that people who did this “hated” our country, Whoopi leaped in to make this brainless defense. “[T]hey don’t hate the country. Stop saying that!” she argued with Faris.

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