The View hosts wear all-black ‘funeral’ attire for post-election episode following Trump’s victory

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Following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election, The view cast members celebrated their first post-election episode by dressing in all black.

On Wednesday (November 6), the ABC daytime talk show aired its first episode since the Republican nominee was re-elected to the White House for a second term. In honor of the occasion, co-hosts Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro sat around The view round table in matching black outfits as they discussed Trump’s victory.

Joy Behar wore a black blouse under a navy velvet blazer during the episode, while co-anchor Sara Haines was dressed in a dark green dress. Whoopi Goldberg was the only one The view panelist who apparently didn’t adhere to the supposed dress code as she wore a pink floral cardigan and a light button-down shirt.

“The women in The view dressed in all black funeral garb,” one viewer pointed out on X/Twitter.

“The women coming out in all black, dressed for a funeral is very appropriate. RIP America. #THEVIEW,” another fan said.

A third user wrote: “The funeral attire on The view going so hard.”

Goldberg kicked off The view coverage after the election by trying to add humor to the somber episode, asking her co-hosts, “So what happened last night?”

Acknowledging that she “strongly disagrees” with the election results, Haines took a swipe at deniers who are challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election by discouraging voters from claiming that “the system needs to be broken” or that the election “was rigged .”

“You say it is what it is and you show up anyway,” she said.

Farah Griffin, a former Trump staffer who revealed during Tuesday’s episode that she voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, explained that she “always thought” Trump could win re-election, but she didn’t expect the results to be so overwhelmingly supportive .

“I think we forget rural America, I think the working class feels left behind,” she said.

However, Hostin didn’t hold back when she said she was “deeply disturbed” by Trump’s victory. “As a woman of color, I was so hopeful that a mixed woman married to a Jewish guy could be elected president of this country,” she shared. “I think it had nothing to do with politics; I think it was a referendum on cultural resentment.”

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Navarro shared that she was at the Harris-Walz campaign headquarters in Washington, DC, on Election Day, which she described as a “very sad scene” when the results were called.

“Unlike Donald Trump and his supporters, I recognize that he won. I hope for the best for our country and I commit to our LGBTQ, our immigrants, our elderly, our young girls, to the women that we will not stop fighting.”

As for Goldberg, the Oscar-winning actor declined to call him by name. “He’s now president,” Goldberg said. “I still won’t say his name, that won’t change.”

Throughout Trump’s 2024 re-election campaign, the cast was from The view has been openly critical of the Republican nominee — so much so that he called the show’s commentators “really stupid people” at a rally in Pennsylvania last month. The president-elect also singled out Goldberg, who often refers to Trump as “you-know-who,” as he called The color Purple star a “demented and “disgusting” person.

“Politics can do strange things to demented people,” Trump told protesters in October. “Now I hired Whoopi to work for me as a comedian before this – a long time ago – and I went and I’m not very shy about what I hear; her mouth was so bad, she was so dirty, dirty, disgusting, half the place left. I said I would never hire her again.”

Goldberg later fired back at Trump’s remarks during an episode of The viewas she proudly told the audience: “I’ve always been dirty, and you knew that when you hired me. I headline, honey, at your casino, which I might have continued to play if you hadn’t run it into the ground. How stupid are you? You hired me four times.”