'The View' Co-Hosts React to Trump Presidential Election 2024 Win
The co-hosts of The View are responding to the news of Donald Trump‘s victory in the 2024 presidential election.
Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, Joy Behar and Alyssa Farah Griffin spoke out on the ABC talk show about the results on Wednesday (November 6).
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“So what happened last night?” Whoopi asked. “He’s the president. I’m still not going to say his name. That’s not going to change.”
Sunny said: “I’m profoundly disturbed. 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. It had nothing to do with policy. This was a referendum of cultural resentment in this country,” she added.
Joy said: “the system worked.”
“We live in a democracy. People spoke. This is what people wanted. 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,” she said.
Ana said: “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.”
Sara said: “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.”
Alyssa, the Republican on the panel who voted for Kamala Harris, noted that people 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. 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,” she noted.
Here’s how the rest of Hollywood is responding to the news.
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