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Whoopi Goldberg bizarrely suggested that Super Bowl attendees could dupe ICE by adopting a “Latin accent” and tanning their skin — as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem vowed to have immigration officers present at Bad Bunny’s halftime performance.
Goldberg offered the eyebrow-raising comments on Monday’s episode of “The View” after co-host Joy Behar mentioned the Super Bowl enforcement plans shared by Noem last week.
“Kristi Noem, the one who shot the puppy, she’s threatening to go to the Super Bowl when Bad Bunny is there and round up all these people that are illegal immigrants,” Behar said.
“Do you think that she would go if it was Garth Brooks or Eminem or Taylor Swift or any other white person?” she continued.
“Let me understand what you’re saying,” Goldberg replied. “Because she’s going to go to the Super Bowl and round up … how is she going to know who is who?”
“Because the Supreme Court has given permission to question anyone who has a Spanish accent, who has dark skin,” Behar replied.
“Here is the thing… everybody, get a little cocoa butter, sit in the sun, that’s the first thing. And then — and this is the only time you can probably ever do this — give yourself a Latin accent, and see if she can tell who is who,” Goldberg proclaimed.
The strange suggestion sparked scattered applause from the audience.
“You know, Whoopi, that is a good idea,” Behar said.
“During the Nazi occupation, there was one country, I believe it was Denmark or Norway, one of those, where everybody put the Jewish star on and they didn’t know who was Jewish or who was not. So what you are saying is very smart,” Behar continued.
The comments from Goldberg and Behar were a response to Noem’s proclamation in a video with conservative commentator Benny Johnson that NFL officials won’t be “able to sleep at night” after picking Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny for the headliner of the Super Bowl 2026 halftime show.
Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, had previously stated he did not hold concerts in the US this year to protest President Trump’s immigration policies.
Noem revealed that ICE will be present at the NFL championship game’s performance, challenging the prominent musician for refusing to appear before American audiences.
“They suck, and we’ll win, and God will bless us, and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day,” Noem told Johnson.
“They won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe, and they’re so weak, we’ll fix it.”
“The Department of Homeland Security is responsible for keeping it safe,” she added of the event set to take place at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., “so I have the responsibility for making sure everybody goes to the Super Bowl, has the opportunity to enjoy it and to leave, and that’s what America is about.
“We’re going to enforce the law,” the DHS chief also said. “So I think people should not be coming to the Super Bowl unless there are law-abiding Americans who love this country.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt had said earlier Friday that there was “no tangible plan” for ICE to be deployed at the Super Bowl.
“As far as ICE being at the Super Bowl, as far as I’m aware there’s no tangible plan for that in store right now,” Leavitt told reporters at a White House briefing.
“However, of course this administration is always going to arrest and deport illegal immigrants when we find them if they are criminals. We’re going to do the right thing by our country,” she continued.
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