“The View” hosts has been having a difficult time grappling with the reality of President-elect Trump’s victory in the days following the presidential election.
Four of the co-hosts walked onto Wednesday’s show wearing black as if they were attending a funeral, and it didn’t take long for anger to be unleashed.
“I’m profoundly disturbed,” co-host Sunny Hostin said. “I think if you look at the New York Times this morning, the headline was ‘America makes a perilous choice.’ I think that in 2016, we didn’t know what we would get from a Trump administration, but we know now. And we know now that he will have almost unfettered power.”
“I’m profoundly disturbed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from becoming President of the United States,” Hostin went on.
“I’m surprised at the results, but I’m not surprised 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, and I think that it had nothing to do with policy. I think this was a referendum of cultural resentment in this country.”
“I’m still not gonna say his name,” Whoopi Goldberg said, maintaining her vow not to utter Trump’s name on the program.
Joy Behar complained about how not only has Trump won the White House but Republicans are poised to hold onto the House and take over the Senate and conservatives maintain a majority on the Supreme Court.
“It’s pathetic,” a downtrodden Behar said. “There are no checks and balances. A completely intelligent, qualified woman lost to a guy who was simulating sex with a microphone. I mean, come on, America.”
Anna Navarro also joined in the outrage.
“Black people voted for somebody they know is a racist,” Navarro said. “Latinos voted for somebody they know is going to deport their abuela. Puerto Ricans voted for somebody they know treats them like trash… White women voted for somebody they know took away their reproductive rights. So all of those things are hard for people like me to understand.”
This is likely not the last time we will hear this level of Meltdown as they will definitely use Trump’s Presidency to boost ratings for the next four years.