There was a noticeable pall over the set of ABC’s ‘The View’ as the co-hosts came to terms with Donald Trump returning to the White House.
All of the co-hosts have made it clear their vote was for Vice President Kamala Harris since she became the Democratic nominee.
Sunny Hostin did not mince words Wednesday morning by stating she was “profoundly disturbed” over what happened overnight, per Mediaite.
Hostin spoke at length about her concern for the future.
“I’m profoundly disturbed. I think if you look at ‘The New York Times’ this morning, the headline was ‘America Makes a Perilous Choice,'” Hostin said. “I think that in 2016, we didn’t know what we would get from a Trump administration. But we know now, and we know now that he will have almost unfettered power. And so 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 their Medicare. I worry about my children’s future, especially my daughter, who now has less rights than I have.”
She also spoke of Trump being a convicted felon.
“… I’m profoundly disturbed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from becoming president of the United States,” Hostin said. “I think that going forward, the ‘convicted felon’ box on employment applications better be taken off because if you can be the president of the United States then you should not be prevented from employment in this country. And I think our health care system is now at risk.”
Former Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin is concerned about working-class Americans
“I think we forget about rural America. I think the working class feels left behind. They feel like the powerful, the elite only care about them and their power. He spoke to them,” the sole Republican on the panel said. “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.”
Ana Navarro, who worked as a volunteer for the Harris campaign, said she had “no regrets,” Mediaite reported.
“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,” Navarro said. “But today, unlike Donald Trump and his followers, I acknowledge that he won. I hope for the best for our country. And I make a commitment to our LGBTQ, to our immigrants, to our elderly, to our young girls, to the women that we will not stop fighting.”
“We can be sad today. Today we can be sad. Tomorrow we stand up and we continue. We have every right as Americans because we love this country, because this is the most exceptional country in the world. We have the right and the duty to speak up and denounce abuses of power, to be vigilant,” Navarro added. “And so I invite all Americans to do it. But we are doing what they didn’t do. We are recognizing they won. Now, let’s see what happens when he is governing.”
Whoopi Goldberg told viewers to celebrate what Harris accomplished.
“So you start with that and think about this — she did this in two months! She did this in two months,” Goldberg said. “Everybody can always say, oh, she should have done this, she should have done this. She did what she did. She was everywhere. She talked to everybody.
“And people didn’t come out. I don’t know why. And it doesn’t even matter. He’s now the president. I’m still not going to say his name. That’s not gonna change,” Goldberg added.
