Whoopi Goldberg declined to call out Trump by name, but she’s not going to rule out the election.
Despite urging people to vote, it appears that more than 10 million Americans did not turn out for the 2024 election. Only part of that low turnout is the result of voter suppression.
Whatever the reason, after Election Day the world either went to sleep terrified or woke up to sobering news. and co-host of Scene There were no exceptions.
Everyone copes with it in his own way. In Whoopi Goldberg’s case, she’s refusing to name the disgraced former and future president.
Whoopi Goldberg ‘still won’t tell her name’ after the dark events of November 5th
“So what happened last night?” Whoopi Goldberg asked during a conversation during the November 6 episode of The View. As you can see and hear in the video below, the room was filled with tension and frustration.
He acknowledged that, barring a miracle, Donald Trump will resume occupation of the Oval Office in January 2025.
“He’s the president,” Whoopi admitted. “I still won’t tell his name. This is not going to change.”
“I’m extremely upset,” Sunny Hostin said. “If you look at the New York Times this morning, the headline was ‘America Makes a Dangerous Choice.'”
He recalled: “I think in 2016 we didn’t know what we were going to get from the Trump administration. We know now. We know that he will now have almost absolute power.”
Sunny Hostin pointed out an important difference: “I don’t really worry about myself. I don’t worry about my station in life.”
Whoopi wasn’t the only panelist processing Trump’s worrisome return to power
In the episode of November 6 SceneSunny Hostin continued: “I care about the working class. I am worried about my mother, who is a retired teacher.”
She continued the list: “I worry about our elders and their Social Security and Medicare care. I am worried about the future of my children. “Especially my daughter, who has less rights than me.”
Sunny further said, “Being a black woman, I fully expected that a mixed-race woman married to a Jewish boy could be elected president of this country.”
Speaking on the election, Sunny Hostin said that, for Trump voters: “It had nothing to do with policy. It was a referendum of cultural outrage in this country.
He is not completely wrong. But that too is not completely correct. There is an alarmingly large section of the voting population that votes out of spite. They don’t care how much it hurts them, as long as someone else gets hurt more. However, there are also “low-information voters” who do not understand the economic and political damage caused by Trump’s first term.
But, to be clear, the existence of “low information voters“There is a policy failure. It is a failure of education, which has been systematically destroyed for generations. And it is a failure of governments, which rely too heavily on corporate media to deliver information to curious voters.
Joy Behar surprises some viewers
Despite the dire consequences of the 2024 presidential (and Senate, lest we forget) election, Joy Behar said that, this time, “the system worked” as intended.
“We live in a democracy. People spoke. This is what people wanted. I completely disagree with the decision taken by the Americans, but I have great hope that we have a democratic system in our country,” he expressed.
“We should appreciate it. We should love it. If a situation arises that requires us to protest then we should protest, and I’m sure we will,” allowed Joy Behar. “I’ve been there before with Nixon. We have a country and we can keep it.”