Whoopi Goldberg claimed that a historic bakery on Staten Island wouldn’t fill a dessert request that she’d made because the business didn’t like her politics. The owner of the bakery, Holtermann’s, said that a major maintenance issue at the business had prevented it from filling any large orders,

Whoopi Goldberg called herself "a working person" on "The View" and not everyone's happy with the co-hosts comparison to working class Americans.