Whoopi Goldberg Refuses to Say Trump’s Name on ‘The View’ After He’s Reelected President; Sunny Hostin Is ‘Profoundly Disturbed’ by Trump’s Win
“The View” hosts — Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, Joy Behar and Alyssa Farah Griffin — came together on the Nov. 6 episode of the ABC talk show to react to Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. All six women voted for Harris, even outspoken Republican and former Trump aide Griffin.
“So what happened last night?” Goldberg asked her co-hosts while never uttering Trump’s name. She later telling them: “He’s the president. I’m still not going to say his name. That’s not going to change.”
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“I’m profoundly disturbed,” Hostin said about the election results. “If you look at The New York Times this morning, the headline was ‘America Makes a Perilous Choice.’ I think in 2016 we didn’t know what we would get from a Trump administration. We know now. We know now he will have almost unfettered power. I worry not about myself actually. I don’t worry about my station in life. I worry about the working class. I worry about my mother, a retired teacher. I worry about our elderly and their social security and medicare. I worry about my children’s future, especially my daughter who has less rights than I had.”
“As a woman of color, I was so hopeful that a mixed race woman married to a Jewish guy could be elected president of this country,” she added. “It had nothing to do with policy. This was a referendum of cultural resentment in this country.”
Behar has long been one of Trump’s most outspoken opponents, but her takeaway from the 2024 presidential election was that “the system worked.”
“We live in a democracy. People spoke. This is what people wanted,” she said. “I vehemently disagree with the decision that Americans made, but I feel very, very hopeful that we have a democratic system in this country. We should value it. We should love it. We should protest if the situation arises that we need to protest, which I’m sure it will. I’ve been there this before with Nixon. We have a country and we can keep it.”
Navarro added, “I have no regrets. I worked hard as hell to elect the first Black, Asian woman president. History slipped through our fingers again. I worked hard as hell for Donald Trump not to be president. But today, unlike Donald Trump and his followers, I acknowledge that he won. I hope for the best for our country. I make a commitment to our LGBTQ, to our immigrants, to our elderly, young girls, women, we will not stop fighting. We can be sad today. Today we can be sad. Tomorrow we stand up and continue.”
Haines echoed that sentiment, telling viewers: “Let’s continue to fight for the people we care about. I still feel optimistic because I am arm in arm with people who agree with me.”
During “The View” episode that aired on Election Day, Griffin announced that she voted for Harris and revealed it was the first time in her life that she ever backed a Democratic candidate for president. Reacting to Trump’s victory the next day, Griffin said that people often forget about “rural America.”
“The working class feels left behind. They feel like the powerful, the elite only care about them and their power. He spoke to them,” Griffin said about Trump. “We may not have liked his words, but they turned out for him…We need to bring down the temperature, the name calling, the demonizing. If they want to do it, they can do it. It’s a moment to listen to the voters.”
Former “View” host Meghan McCain called out ABC shortly before the episode aired for filling every seat with a Harris voter, posting on X: “It is actual malfeasance on the part of ABC news that there isn’t one single conservative woman on ‘The View’ this morning who voted for Trump or simply isn’t repulsed by his supporters to explain to America why he is still so popular.
“The View” hosts were outspoken against Trump throughout election season, so much so that Trump was at a campaign event in Reading, Pa. last month when he called them “really dumb people.” He then remembered hiring Goldberg once for a comedy event at one of his casinos, but he criticized her act for being “filthy dirty” and “disgusting.”
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