Sunny Hostin called Trump's conduct &34;despicable&34; after he was shown wearing a hat while saluting fallen service members. The View's Whoopi Goldberg sternly warns Donald Trump to 'take your damn hat off' for dead soldiers Sunny Hostin called Trump's conduct &34;despicable&34; after he was shown wearing a hat while saluting fallen service members. :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/JoeyNolfiauthorphotoba4923fec03a4027868306485696ef41.jpg) Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at . Since 2016, his work at EW includes RuPaul's Drag Race video interviews, Oscars predictions, and more.

Sunny Hostin called Trump's conduct "despicable" after he was shown wearing a hat while saluting fallen service members.

The View's Whoopi Goldberg sternly warns Donald Trump to 'take your damn hat off' for dead soldiers

Sunny Hostin called Trump's conduct "despicable" after he was shown wearing a hat while saluting fallen service members.

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- Whoopi Goldberg staunchly criticized Donald Trump for wearing a hat while saluting dead American soldiers.

- Seven service members have been killed following the United States' attack on Iran.

- Sunny Hostin also called Trump's salute "despicable" compared to Barack Obama's.

*The View** *cohost Whoopi Goldberg has taken a firm stand against what she suggested was Donald Trump's disrespectful gesture toward dead United States service members over the weekend.

The Oscar-winning actress launched Monday's live episode by introducing a Hot Topics discussion reacting to fallout from America's recent military offensive on Iran, which many have speculated could lead to a new wave of U.S. troops on the ground in the Middle East.

Goldberg began the conversation with a warning to Trump, after he was photographed over the weekend at Dover Air Force Base, wearing a hat while saluting American service members recently killed in the region.

"It really bugged me, and maybe I'm just being picky. When those caskets came off that plane? Take your damn hat off. Take your damn hat off," Goldberg stressed to Trump, after he was pictured wearing a white hat as caskets were taken off an aircraft. "I didn't understand why nobody pulled his coat tail and said, 'Sir, just out of respect?'"**

Donald Trump wears a hat while saluting fallen service members.

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Panelist Sunny Hostin then recalled, "President Obama actually was the first president to preside over that dignified transfer and he stood there for a 45-minute salute, without a hat on, and with a suit on. It was a very somber moment. It wasn't about him, it was about the loss of our soldiers who gave their life for this country."

Hostin added, "What I saw when I saw [the most recent] dignified transfer was, it was all about Trump, and I thought that was despicable."

Guest cohost Sheryl Underwood, a Republican filling in for Alyssa Farah Griffin (who's out on maternity leave), brought her own experience serving in the Air Force Reserve to the table as she commented on Trump's behavior.

"Now we're in something that you're not telling us why, and I put on a uniform to serve this country and I always wanted to know why I'm doing this," Underwood said of the strikes on Iran. "I do believe when they say you should not follow an unlawful order. Why is this not impeachable? And where are the politicians to say this dude doesn't have it all the way together."

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She said that "we should care more about [the soldiers] than someone's personal interest if you're going to wage war," and told Trump, "You are putting American lives and soldiers at risk."

After a commercial break, Goldberg doubled down on her criticism, especially over the thought of American troops entering the region on the ground.

"His kids aren't going," Goldberg said during the telecast. "I don't want anybody's son and daughter to go, because this is not what we should be doing."

Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Sheryl Underwood on 'The View'.

Underwood additionally clarified that the show's panel stood in support of the nation's troops, telling the audience, "We do not want our troops to feel like we do not care for what they're doing. We applaud them for standing in the gap for us."

Speaking on the ignited conflict in the Middle East, Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth recently told *60 Minutes *of a potential ground invasion that, "President Trump knows — I know — you don't tell the enemy, you don't tell the press, you don't tell anybody what your limits would be on an operation. We're willing to go as far as we need to in order to be successful."

In a March 7 conference with reporters, Trump said of a potential ground offensive: "Could there be? Possibly. For very good reason. It would have to be a very good reason. If we ever did that, they'd be so decimated that they wouldn't be able to fight at the ground level."

*The View *airs weekdays on ABC.

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