Whoopi Goldberg Makes a Bold Move on 'The View' Following Election Results
Whoopi Goldberg is serious about one thing following the 2024 presidential election, and she's not shying away from making her stance clear.
During the Wednesday, Nov. 6 episode of The View, the EGOT winner expressed utter disappointment about Donald Trump securing the spot as the 47th U.S. president, sending a bold message that despite his position, she won't be saying his name. "That's not going to change," she doubled down.
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“So what happened last night?” Goldberg asked her co-hosts Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, Joy Behar and Alyssa Farah Griffin, whom all declared voting for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
Goldberg's refusal to directly refer to the infamous businessman and convicted felon remained: “He’s the president. I’m still not going to say his name."
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Hostin responded, admitting to being "profoundly disturbed" by the results of the political race. “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."
The talk show host continued to express her sentiments on the ordeal: "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,” Hostin added. “It had nothing to do with policy. This was a referendum of cultural resentment in this country.”
Meanwhile, Behar, who has long been known to speak out against the former and soon-to-be president, simply chalked the results up to one thing: "This is what people wanted."
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“We live in a democracy. People spoke," 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 through this before with Nixon. We have a country and we can keep it."
As for Navarro, she communicated having "no regrets" with the way she voted. "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.”
Even Griffin, who admitted to voting Democrat for the very first time, lamented over the victory. “The working class feels left behind. They feel like the powerful, the elite only care about them and their power. He spoke to them. 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.”
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Haines, bringing a bit of lighthearted disposition to the heavy conversation, sent a direct message of her own to viewers, urging, “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.”
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