Whoopi Goldberg bashed former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley Monday — implying the GOP presidential candidate is too old to be considered part of the “new generation” she claims to be a member of.
“The View” co-host fired off the jab during Monday’s show, days after CNN anchor Don Lemon got himself into hot water for making allegedly sexist remarks in relation to Haley.
Goldberg played a clip of one of the presidential hopeful’s campaign videos before going in on her.
“Washington establishment has failed us over and over and over again,” Haley said in the clip. “It’s time for a new generation of leadership.”
Goldberg then quickly interjected: “You’re not a new generation. You’re 51. What are you talking about?”
Her co-host, Republican strategist Alyssa Farah Griffin, tried to defend Haley’s point.
“Compared to DC, though, that’s a new generation,” Griffin said. “Congress is old.”
But Goldberg didn’t budge, responding again, “it’s not a new generation,” and added, “She may be younger than most of those people but her rhetoric is the same. She’s saying the same BS.”
The “Sister Act” star slammed the former South Carolina governor as Lemon was missing from “CNN This Morning” — for the second show in the row — after he said Haley “isn’t in her prime” during a segment last week.
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Lemon, 56, then told his co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins that “a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.”
He was responding to Haley’s call for mental competency tests for politicians over the age of 75 when he made the shocking on-air statement.
The comments sparked backlash online with many calling Lemon sexist and some even demanding his removal from the station.
The CNN star said he regretted his comments in a statement he posted to Twitter soon after.
“The reference I made to a woman’s “prime” this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it. A woman’s age doesn’t define her either personally or professionally,” Lemon tweeted. “I have countless women in my life who prove that every day.”
He later apologized to his CNN co-workers, including his co-hosts specifically, in an internal call.
It’s unclear if Lemon will return as co-host Tuesday morning as sources told Page Six the journalist has “zero defenders” left at the network.
Meanwhile, Haley addressed attacks made against her on Fox News’ “The Story with Martha MacCallum” Monday.
“If my age is all they have, it means we’re winning,” she said. “I’m okay with that.”
