Whoopi Goldberg refuses to say Trump’s name after election victory

“The View” hosts — Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, Joy Behar and Alyssa Farah Griffin — convened on the Nov. 6 episode of the ABC talk show to react to Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. All six women voted for Harris, even outspoken Republican and former Trump aide Griffin.

“So what happened last night?” Goldberg asked her co-hosts while never saying Trump’s name. She later told them: “He’s the president. I’m still not going to say his name. That’s not going to change.”

“I am deeply disturbed,” Hostin said of the election results. “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 were going to get from a Trump administration. We know now. We know he wants almost unlimited power. I don’t care about my station in life. I care about my mother, a retired teacher I worry about our elders and their social security and medicine. I worry about my children’s future, especially my daughter, who has fewer 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,” she added. “It had nothing to do with politics. This was a referendum on cultural anger in this country.”

Behar has long been one of Trump’s most outspoken opponents, but her takeaway from the 2024 presidential election was that “the system worked.”

“We live in a democracy. People were talking. That’s what people wanted,’ she said. “I strongly disagree with the decision that the Americans made, but I feel very, very hopeful that we have a democratic system in this country. We should appreciate it. We should love it. We should protest if the situation arises that we have to protest, which I am sure it will. I’ve been there 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 to keep Donald Trump from being president. But today, unlike to Donald Trump and his supporters, I recognize that he won. I am committed to our LGBTQ, our immigrants, our young women, we will not stop fighting may be sad today. Today we may be sad. Tomorrow we will rise and carry on.”

Haines echoed that sentiment, telling viewers, “Let’s keep fighting for the people we care about. I still feel optimistic because I’m arm in arm with people who agree with me.”

During the episode of “The View” that aired on Election Day, Griffin announced that she was voting for Harris and revealed that it was the first time in her life that she had ever endorsed a Democratic presidential candidate. Reacting to Trump’s victory the next day, Griffin said people often forget “rural America.”

“The working class feels behind. They feel like the powerful, the elite only care about them and their power. He spoke to them,” Griffin said of Trump. “We may not have liked his words, but they showed up for him … We have to lower the temperature, the name calling, the demonization. If they want to do it, they can do it. It’s a moment to listen to the voters .”

Former “View” host Meghan McCain ABC shouted shortly before the episode aired to fill every slot with a Harris voter, posting on X: “It is actually abusive on the part of ABC news that there is not one conservative woman on ‘The View’ this morning who voted for Trump or is simply not rejected by his supporters to explain to America why he is still so popular.

“The View” hosts were 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 them “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”.