Still insisting that the bad economy and inflation were not what drove Americans to overwhelmingly elect Donald Trump president again (instead claiming it was all sexism and racism), Sunny Hostin, the staunchly racist co-host of ABC’s The View urged people to not attend holiday gatherings with family members who supported Trump. She called it a “moral issue.”
Fake Republican Ana Navarro said that although her and husband Al Cardenas voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, he refused to let politics drive him away from seeing is grandkids. “Whatever your reason is, I would never let my politics be the reason I don't show up to see my family, because they won't always be there,” agreed pretend independent Sara Haines.
Hostin held the more extremist position.
“I really do feel that this candidate, you know, President-elect Trump is a different type of candidate,” she said. “From the things he said and the things he's done and the things he will do, it's more of a moral issue for me and I think it's more of a moral issue for other people.”
She tried to suggest Democrats did not claim former President George W. Bush was “deeply flawed in morality” like they do Trump. She was left stammering when she was immediately shot down by Haines and anti-Trumper Alyssa Farah Griffin:
HOSTIN: We're just -- you know, I would say it was different when, let's say, Bush got elected. You may not have agreed with his policies but you didn't feel like he was a deeply flawed person, deeply flawed by character, deeply flawed in morality.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I think a lot of Dems called him deeply flawed and dehumanized him.
HAINES: I think people did at the time.
HOSTIN: But – but its – but its – But you got to admit they're very different figures.
“If it meant not seeing the children? If it meant not seeing the children?” Navarro also pushed back on the notion of cutting off family.
Hostin did get backup from moderator Whoopi Goldberg, who suggested Trump-voting family members who just gay-bash children while around the table:
GOLDBERG: I appreciate the voters, but I will say somebody who tells me that my child is wrong because of how he or she feels, that tells me that they shouldn't be allowed to be who they are with my permission, I have to question it. I don't want to put my kid in that position.
HOSTIN: Exactly.
GOLDBERG: I don't want to put my gay child in a position where she has to sit with someone who doesn't understand her and feels like it's okay to just blurt all that out. That's just me.
She also seemingly spread that notion to racially “mixed families.” “You can have dinner at another point but it might not be the time to gather because you know there's going to be some tension,” she argued.
In an additional, truly out of touch moment, Goldberg asserted that she too was a member of the working-class because she went to work on The View four days a week. “"I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me too. I work for a living. If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here."
Talk about out of touch.
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 12, 2024
Multi-millionaire Whoopi Goldberg claims to be part of the working-class because she has a job on The View:
"I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me too. I work for a living. If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here." pic.twitter.com/g98M4BCFf4
How many working-class EGOT winners do you know? According to Parade magazine, Goldberg’s net worth is estimated to be $60 million and her talk-show contrast as estimated to be $6 million in 2016. Goldberg also owns her own brand of prosecco wine.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
November 12, 2024
11:23:08 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I'm sorry. When you have one candidate who has been running for 12 years who lies and changes things – I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me too. I work for a living. If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here.
[Laughter]
Okay?
[Applause]
So. I'm a working person, you know.
And my kid has to feed her family, you know, and my great granddaughter has to be fed by her family. I know it's hard out there, but I also know that there are a lot of things that we just said, ‘nope, I'm just going to go this way.’ And a lot of that is also what happened.
I love what she [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)] did, yay, you know, we talk to people all the time who say this is what's bothering me. But the thing that's bothering everybody should not be the thing that puts 85 percent of other people in danger.
(…)
11:31:55 a.m. Eastern
SARA HAINES: Whatever your reason is, I would never let my politics be the reason I don't show up to see my family, because they won't always be there.
SUNNY HOSTIN: I'm going to disagree! I completely understand her point, because I really do feel that this candidate, you know, President-elect Trump is a different type of candidate. From the things he said and the things he's done and the things he will do, it's more of a moral issue for me and I think it's more of a moral issue for other people.
We're just -- you know, I would say it was different when, let's say, Bush got elected. You may not have agreed with his policies but you didn't feel like he was a deeply flawed person, deeply flawed by character, deeply flawed in morality.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I think a lot of Dems called him deeply flawed and dehumanized him.
HAINES: I think people did at the time.
HOSTIN: But – but its – but its – But you got to admit they're very different figures. I mean, you know, you [points to Farah Griffin] along with Milley and along with John Kelly warned us about how deeply flawed he was as a candidate. And so, I think when people feel that someone voted not only against their families but against them and against people that they loved, I think it's okay to take a beat.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I don’t have to like him to respect the voters.
ANA NAVARRO: If it meant not seeing the children? If it meant not seeing the children?
GOLDBERG: I appreciate the voters, but I will say somebody who tells me that my child is wrong because of how he or she feels, that tells me that they shouldn't be allowed to be who they are with my permission, I have to question it. I don't want to put my kid in that position.
HOSTIN: Exactly.
GOLDBERG: I don't want to put my gay child in a position where she has to sit with someone who doesn't understand her and feels like it's okay to just blurt all that out. That's just me.
[Applause]
But I feel like -- with mixed families, with mixed families, I feel the same way.
HOSTIN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: There are certain things where you don't have to put your family in the middle of it. You can have dinner at another point but it might not be the time to gather because you know there's going to be some tension.
(…)
