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Whoopi Goldberg has some advice for Donald Trump if he wants the media to lay off him: stop lying.
The president and his administration have been at war with several outlets since stepping into office, labeling some "fake news" and barring others from a recent press gaggle last week.
The question during "Hot Topics" on "The View" this morning: "Is the media too tough on him?"
For Whoopi, the answer was an emphatic NO.
"I can go back 8 years to the time Obama got in. Let's talk about when people are being crappy to you, I have no sympathy man," Goldberg said. "Stop lying to the people, then people will stop trying to trip you up!"
"What they don't acknowledge is Donald's role in all of this," Jedediah Bila added of the media blowback. "Russia is not a small story. Trump feeds into this by doing and saying ridiculous things. A lot of those questions they're asking, with respect to him, they're fair questions and that's what the media is supposed to do. The media's not supposed to be your friend, it's supposed to be difficult, it's supposed to make life hard for you. They're supposed to ask tough questions and if you don't like it, you're not up for the job.
Behar said Trump's media takedown is just an "inoculation" against allegations that could be coming down the line. "By vilifying the press, by saying it's all fake, when all of this comes down he can say, 'They lie, the press is making it up.'"
With Pres. Trump skipping the White House Correspondents' Dinner, our co-hosts have some suggestions on who could fill in. pic.twitter.com/UbS6cfvA7k
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The women also talked about Trump deciding to not attend the White House Correspondents Dinner, where they all offered up some suggestions for who should take his place.
The ideas included Hillary Clinton, Alec Baldwin, Steve Bannon and a roster of all the living presidents still with us.
