“When you hear me say, ‘And now, a moment from our cat box,’ you’ll know what I’m talking about and what’s coming.”

Whoopi Goldberg had nothing paw-sitive to say about the Trump administration’s handling of its recent Signal chat scandal while moderating Wednesday’s episode of The View.

The EGOT winner compared the snafu — in which a journalist for The Atlantic was accidentally added to a military group chat that included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and Vice President J.D. Vance — to the way a cat attempts to bury all the evidence of its poop after using a litter box.

“I’m going to start calling this ‘in the cat box,’ ’cause that’s what they’re doing,” Goldberg said of the incident. “They’re doing what cats do. When the cat uses the cat box, the cat [shuffles] like this and tries to cover it up, you know? Covers it all up.”

She continued, “So, when you hear me say, ‘And now, a moment from our cat box,’ you’ll know what I’m talking about and what’s coming.”

Earlier this week, The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg published an article in which he revealed that he’d been accidentally added to a group chat that explicitly detailed the Trump administration’s plan to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen on March 15. This morning, he released the full conversation after the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claimed during a Senate hearing yesterday that “no classified material” was shared in the message group.

The correspondence featured Hegseth going into detail about the forthcoming strikes, including the time they were set to begin and the types of planes soldiers would be operating.

“I’m no military expert,” Goldberg said while the messages were depicted on the screen behind her during the show, “but it kind of does sound a little classified to me.”

She also expressed her shock that no one thought to question the unknown number in the message thread. “You see a funny phone number on a group chat and you don’t say to somebody, ‘Who is this?’ Or you see a name and think, ‘Goldberg? Is that Whoopi?’” she said. “You see that there is a name that shouldn’t be there. I mean, I’m sorry. You can say, ‘No, this isn’t a big deal,’ but this is a big deal! This is a very big deal.”

She called the incident a “mistake,” noting that “anybody else who did this would be gone. They would be gone!”

Goldberg’s cohost Sara Haines added that she was “concerned” by the current administration’s definition of “classified” if the information in the group chat wasn’t considered sensitive material. “If this sort of information is not classified, or handled carefully, maybe we should be talking about that,” she said. “Their excuse doesn’t even get them off the hook.”

The View star and former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin noted that she thought Gabbard and Waltz, who testified in front of the Senate committee “under oath” yesterday, may have “perjured” themselves in the process.

“You think?” Joy Behar responded sarcastically, to which Hostin simply replied, “There are consequences to perjury.”

Republican panelist Alyssa Farah Griffin added that she was “really disappointed” by right-wing media coverage in the aftermath of the blunder. “People who I know know better and who care about the safety of our troops [are] dismissing this as like, ‘Oh, it was just a text thread. We all make mistakes!’” she said. “This was clear as day.”