The women of The View have THOUGHTS on Donald Trump winning back the presidency.
On Wednesday morning’s somber episode of the daytime staple, the six hosts — who all voted against the convicted felon, even the one who worked for him — reacted strongly to the news. To start, Whoopi Goldberg — who continues to refuse to even say the man’s name — asked her co-hosts how they were all feeling. Joy Behar was the first to share her thoughts:
“My takeaway is that the system works. 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 through this before with [Richard] Nixon, it’s been very difficult, but boy, oh boy, do we have a country if we can keep it.”
Hmm. Sara Haines was up next. She said in part:
“For anyone that needs an example of when the person you voted for does not win, you do not say, ‘The system must be broken or that it was rigged,’ you say, ‘It is what it is,’ and you show up anyway. I want to commend all those people that voted, because you sometimes hear people say, ‘Well, it didn’t matter,’ no it did matter. That was still your currency, that was still your power. And people turned out. Now, if you didn’t vote, you really don’t have a say in the conversation and you can go ahead and sit down.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin, who previously served as Trump’s White House director of strategic communications in 2020 but quit on January 6, revealed on Tuesday she cast her ballot for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. The one who knows Trump the best. That should mean something.
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Anyway, on the election results she took a more neutral approach, dissecting how Trump edged out his opponent — but distanced herself from his supporters:
“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.”
Sorry, but how do a guy that poops in a golden toilet and his biggest cheerleader, the richest man in the world, still get away with the other side being called “the elite”?
Sunny Hostin had STRONG opinions to share after noting she’s “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.”
It’s what most of us are feeling right now. But on a more personal note, she added:
“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 also noted that she believes going forward, “the convicted felon box on applications better be taken off” if a convicted felon is able to campaign and WIN a presidency.
Make it make sense!
Ana Navarro, the other Republican on the panel, then spoke out, sharing:
“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.”
You can hear more from The View panel (below):
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