‘The View’ Stumbles Into A Commercial Break As Whoopi Goldberg Pretends Her Mic Was Cut By Producers: “Is This What We’re Doing?”

The View prepared for this evening’s impending presidential debate between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump by reviewing the rules for the CNN event, which will take place without an audience or real-time fact-checking.

The event will also feature special microphones that will go on mute whenever it’s not a candidate’s turn to to be speaking.

Joy Behar told The View that she didn’t think the muted mics went far enough. She explained, “This idea that when Trump keeps talking his mic is shut, that’s not enough. Because Joe Biden can still hear him.”

Pointing to Whoopi Goldberg, who was seated mere feet away from her, Behar said, “If you keep yammering, I can still hear you. They need to be in like one of those quiz show isolation pods.”

As the segment went on and Sara Haines offered her take on who the debate will serve most — “unhappy,” rather than undecided, voters — she was interrupted when Goldberg could be heard asking, “What?” and the camera panned to Paul, a crew member, who motioned that it was time to end the segment.

“Are you talking to me?” Goldberg asked as Haines struggled to continue her thought. Goldberg said again, “Why are you talking to me right now? Is this what you’re doing?” as Paul spun his finger in the air to signal that they needed to wrap their chat.

Alyssa Farah Griffin, referring to Behar’s earlier point about hearing Goldberg’s commentary at the other end of the table, said, “See, it can be distracting, though.”

Goldberg once again asked, “Is this what we’re doing?” then appeared to pretend her mic had been cut in a nod to tonight’s debate as she mouthed the rest of her commentary and acted like she was getting increasingly enraged.

As Haines joked, “Maybe this is the debate, because I’m distracted by Paul, too,” Goldberg took her antics even further, widening her eyes and even rising from her seat in mock outrage. Paul, meanwhile, was pleasantly amused, smiling and waving as he mouthed “we’ve gotta go” and pointed over at executive producer Brian Teta, who was less taken with Goldberg’s feigned meltdown.

Defeated, Goldberg sat back down and picked up a cue card reading, “We’ll be right back,” which she mysteriously had ready to go, all the more proof her “tantrum” was just another entertaining Goldberg bit.

The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.