‘The microphone should be restrained’

On November 7, 2024By Littum

“The View” hosts marked Election Day by sharing their optimism that Kamala Harris will beat Donald Trump in the race for president (Sunny Hostin said she was “nauseatingly optimistic”). All five hosts — Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Hostin, Joy Behar and Alyssa Farah Griffin — voted for Harris. Even Griffin, an outspoken Republican who previously served in the Trump White House, voted for a Democrat for the first time in his life.

“I consider my vote a loan to her,” Griffin said of voting for Harris. “I worry about the direction that Donald Trump will take this country, and I take my own warning seriously. I need someone who is a kind and decent person who will bring this country together. I don’t agree with a lot of her policies, and we can criticize that down the road, but today it’s about what’s best for the future, and the future of the country is that Donald Trump will lose and Kamala Harris will be elected.”

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Haines praised Griffin for her decision to vote Democrat despite being a Republican, saying, “I think it’s a big step for you as a Republican for your whole life. I see it less like voting for a democrat and more to vote for a democracy and a constitution so I commend you for that…(You) will be torn apart but you did the right thing and I commend you for that.”

Behar said she felt optimistic about Harris because Donald Trump has “deteriorated massively” in the final stages of his campaign, pointing to a viral moment from Trump’s Nov. 1 rally in Milwaukee, Wis., where Trump apparently performed an oral sex act on a microphone placed “too low”.

“That microphone should take a hold,” Behar said as “The View” audience laughed and cheered in approval. “What American wants their children to see the possibility of a President of the United States simulating a sex act? He seems to be going further and further down. Not just on that microphone.”

Goldberg agreed, adding, “When we showed that bit of him with the microphone yesterday, it bothered me all day and I couldn’t figure it out and I figured it out this morning. I don’t want to hear any more parents out there who are nervous about what their kids are being taught or freaked out by drag queens reading books to your kids, if what you saw him do didn’t disgust you enough to protect your kids, I don’t want to hear from you anymore .”

“The View” hosts have been outspoken against Trump throughout the election season, so much so that Trump was at a campaign event in Reading, Pa. last month when he called “The View” hosts “really stupid people.” He then recalled that he had once hired Goldberg for a comedy event at one of his casinos, but he criticized her act as “dirty dirty” and “disgusting”.

“I was dirty, and I stand by that fact. I’ve always been dirty, and you knew that when you hired me,” Goldberg fired back at Trump after the rally. “I headlined, honey, at your casino like I might have continued to play if you hadn’t run it into the ground. How stupid are you? You hired me four times. Didn’t know what you got? How stupid are you?”

Goldberg ended the Election Day episode of “The View” by calling for unity on the voting lines, saying, “I want to say something to people who are out there voting, who are out on lines and things like that, if you see other voters being harassed , call someone. Call someone. She didn’t do anything. We’re not going to let you don’t let you harass people. We have to do something.”

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