Whoopi Goldberg pictured in July 2024

Whoopi Goldberg declared that she was “really pissed” off on Wednesday, after Karoline Leavitt dismissed “wokeness” during her first briefing as US president Donald Trump’s White House press secretary.

Leavitt — while remarking on the Trump administration’s since-rescinded federal funding freeze memo — said the “pause” would mean no more funding for “transgenderism and wokeness across our federal bureaucracy and agencies”.

“Let me explain something to you, because without that wokeness, you might not have that job,” Whoopi said during Wednesday’s edition of

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