Whoopi Goldberg refused to say Donald Trump‘s name on The View following his victory in the 2024 presidential election.
Goldberg and her fellow hosts Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, Joy Behar and Alyssa Farah Griffin came together on the November 6 episode of the ABC talk show to discuss the result. All six women voted for Kamala Harris at the election, including outspoken Republican and former Trump aide Griffin.
“So what happened last night?” Goldberg asked her co-hosts while refraining from using Trump’s name. “He’s the president. I’m still not going to say his name. That’s not going to change.”
“I’m profoundly disturbed,” Hostin said about the result. “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.”
Hostin added: “As a woman of colour, 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.”
Whoopi Goldberg refused to say Donald Trump’s name on The View. CREDIT: Getty/Photo by Manoli Figetakis/Getty Images
Behar also expressed her unease at the result, but her main takeaway from the 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.”
In the build up to the election, Goldberg hit out at Trump’s running mate JD Vance, telling him to “stop talking”.
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