Staunchly racist and anti-Semitic Sunny Hostin couldn’t find it in her to be happy and congratulate a relatively recent guest getting engaged to the love of his life. Instead, on the Wednesday episode of ABC’s The View, she decried Senator Tim Scott’s (R-SC) recent engagement to his fiancé Mindy, who happened to be white. According to Hostin, the whole thing proved he was a puppet controlled by white people.
She also claimed the timing was suspicious and was likely just to appease former President Trump in a play to be his vice president.
The View lashed out at Scott for appearing with Trump after his victory in the New Hampshire primary. “This is so terrible. But I thought if you get any more up this man's backside. All we'll see is Tim Scott's feet and he'll be wearing Donald Trump,” moderator Whoopi Goldberg disgustingly screeched.
This gave Hostin the opportunity to attack Scott and his engagement. “But I'd like to just talk about Tim Scott for a moment. And how uncomfortable he looked behind Donald Trump and the cringe-worthy moment. He is up his body,” she chided.
As usual, Hostin made things racial by suggesting Scott was “in The Sunken Place.”
For those unfamiliar with the term “the Sunken Place,” it’s a reference to the movie Get Out by writer-director Jordan Peele. As explained by The Wrap, in the movie, white women seduce black men and bring them to be “kidnapped, sold into a form of slavery, and lobotomized so that his body can be hijacked by the white person who purchased him.”
So, with that context, Hostin clearly didn’t approve of the engagement. She also criticized the timing of the announcement as just a ploy to get Trump to pick him as vice president:
But he's in The Sunken Place. Okay? I mean, that's just the bottom line for Tim Scott, what's so fascinating is you know he's running for vice president. He endorses Trump on a Friday and then gets engaged on a Saturday, and announces his engagement on a Sunday because it's like, “Pick me. I'm getting married this year.” And no other vice president has been unmarried, right, and has been successful so it just screams “I want to be your vice president. I love you.”
Hostin has a very long history of making racist attacks on white women and black conservatives.
In 2022, she said that black Republicans were “oxymoron[s]” she couldn’t “understand.” Later that year, she compared white women to “roaches.” She also accused white women of “protect[ing] the patriarchy,” and thus hurting other women.
Late last year, when rumors surfaced that he was dating someone, Hostin viciously demanded to know who he was seeing. Following a soundbite of Scott talking about his future fiancé, Hostin argued that it was “very important” she knew who he was seeing “because of the pillow talk that happens and if she's a lunatic.”
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
January 24, 2024
11:08:51 a.m. Eastern(…)
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: It's so pathetic.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: All I can -- this is so terrible. But I thought if you get any more up this man's backside.
[Applause]
JOY BEHAR: He's going to come out of his mouth!
GOLDBERG: All we'll see is Tim Scott's feet and he'll be wearing Donald Trump. I don't get it. I mean, we're going to talk more about this and so much more when we come back.
(…)
11:15:24 a.m. Eastern
SUNNY HOSTIN: But I'd like to just talk about Tim Scott for a moment.
GOLDBERG: Why?
HOSTIN: And how uncomfortable he looked behind Donald Trump and the cringe-worthy moment. He is up his body.
[Laughter]
But he's in The Sunken Place. Okay? I mean, that's just the bottom line for Tim Scott, what's so fascinating is you know he's running for vice president. He endorses Trump on a Friday and then gets engaged on a Saturday.
BEHAR: Hello!
HOSTIN: And announces his engagement on a Sunday because it's like, “Pick me. I'm getting married this year.” And no other vice president has been unmarried, right, and has been successful so it just screams “I want to be your vice president. I love you.”
GOLDBERG: But what was Vivek doing? What was little tiny -- What was little Vivek doing?
FARAH GRIFFIN: I feel like he lives in Trump’s pocket.
GOLDBERG: I think he disappeared on the way up with Tim Scott. They were all up there together. What the hell?
FARAH GRIFFIN: There are a bunch of them jockeying for the VP slot. Here's what was so pathetic, cringy, and painful about watching Tim Scott. Elise Stefanik rushed to put out a statement congratulating Trump for winning before the polls even closed last night. They are racing to try to be his vice president.
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