Key Points

• Whoopi Goldberg has announced that she wants to help the people of the United States.
• The View moderator revealed on the show’s companion podcast that she has government ambitions.
• “Whoopi Goldberg with diplomatic immunity is very exciting to me,” producer Brian Teta said.

If Whoopi Goldberg has her way, she’ll take a little time to enjoy a whole new worldview if she’s appointed to a key government position in the future.

The 70-year-old EGOT-winning actress and The View moderator announced on Thursday’s episode of the talk show’s Behind the Table podcast that she wants a government role — news of which shocked View producer Brian Teta.

“I know this is the craziest thing ever, and it will never happen while [The View] is going on, but I still want to represent our country in another country. I’ve always wanted to me an ambassador,” Goldberg replied when Teta asked the star on her birthday about what she still wants to accomplish in life.

Goldberg explained her ambitions: “I think there are terrific things about this country. I know we’re not perfect, and there’s a lot of stuff we’ve got to fix. It’s what I’ve always said: There are great things about us and terrible things about us. We fix what we can, and sometimes we fix it really well, and sometimes we don’t fix it well enough.”

The Ghost and Sister Act star said she wants “to go to other countries” to smooth over relations regarding public perception of the United States.

“Especially as other countries are dealing with us these days and their reactions to us and how we are being seen by them,” Goldberg noted. “I want to bring it back to the people of the U.S., what the people are doing. They don’t have any say in it.”

Teta then pointed out that he thinks people “don’t realize” that Goldberg is “someone who loves this country and is a patriot,” but who doesn’t “love what’s going on int he country all the time” and who very much loves America despite her stances on the current state of U.S. politics.

“I do, and I love it because this is one of the few countries where you can say, ‘I don’t like that,’ and you don’t get hamstrung, you don’t get arrested on the streets,” Goldberg said. “That’s the America I grew up in. I’ve always had friends who are Republicans and I still do, but this idea that we can’t disagree without it being life-threatening, that’s not America.”

Teta ended the episode by joking that he personally likes “the idea of Ambassador Whoopi Goldberg, because Whoopi Goldberg with diplomatic immunity is very exciting to me.”

According to the American Foreign Service Association, there are currently 195 ambassador positions in the U.S. government. In a 2023 video, the National Museum of American Diplomacy described the role — which is, in some cases of government, a presidentially appointed position — as representing the president in foreign countries.

“There you are, saying, the president has sent me to represent him, to you. That leaves a lasting impression,” said American diplomat Marcia Bernicat in the video.

She continued, “One of our most important roles is to be the voice and the face of the United States in the country we’re assigned to,” and that “we not only translate the U.S. and what our needs and desires and goals our to our host government, but we also are required to interpret what’s going on in the host country back to the United States with the view of whether or not what’s going on supports or threatens U.S. interests.”

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