*During a panel discussion about Mike White’s popular HBO series, “The White Lotus,” Whoopi Goldberg gave it a new, unofficial title while commenting on a character who supports Donald Trump. She referred to the series, now in its third season, as The Caucasian Lotus.
“The White Lotus — or, The Caucasian Lotus, as I call it — is about ultra-rich people going to exotic locations. But, there’s a conversation from the latest episode that a lot of Americans can relate to these days,” Goldberg said, per The Hollywood Reporter.
She was referring to a scene from episode three where a group of friends discovers that one of them voted for Trump in the presidential election. Conservative cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin noted that the trio of friends “are not actually friends” because “they don’t know anything about each other’s loves.”
Griffin added… “if you know people to their core and know their values and why they decided [the way they did], you can respect them and co-exist with them supporting somebody you didn’t.”
“It’s not just about politics,” co-host Joy Behar said. “It’s about morality, ethics, it’s about cruelty, it’s about discrimination and it’s about a lot of things so those are personal human values.”
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Goldberg later commented about how “the racists and the misogynists have always been here.”
“Maybe some of what’s happening, like they’re [the Trump administration] trying to take apart the Department of Education, maybe that is a good thing because maybe it’ll force us to make sure that our kids actually get what they need,” she said. “This is now in our hands, and it’s going to be tough and nobody wants to do it because it’s a bitch, but you know what? If it comes down to your survival, this is what you’ve got to do.”
Meanwhile, series stars Carrie Coon and Leslie Bibb previously reacted to the Trump scene in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
“I feel like Mike had binoculars into the future because when we did it, it just didn’t feel [timely anymore],” Bibb said. “I was like, ‘We already did that. That was in the past.’ I don’t even think Trump was running when we did it — it was in January or February of last year or something, so yeah, that was pretty wild. But he’s like a little soothsayer, that Mike White. It feels like we’ve hit a nerve. We’re in the zeitgeist, as they say. We’ve done something current, if you will.”
Coon added that the cast “didn’t really talk about” Trump on set.
“Mike’s stuff is always on the page,” she said. “You also know that he’s not going to let you leave until he gets what he needs out of you, and so that’s always a comforting feeling.”
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