Whoopi Goldberg is refusing to mention Trump’s name, but she is not denying the election results.
Despite calls for people to vote, it seems that over 10 million Americans did not participate in the 2024 election. Some of this lower turnout is due to voter suppression.
The world either went to bed haunted or woke up to grim news after Election Day, and The View co-hosts were no exception.
Everyone copes differently. Whoopi Goldberg, for example, is choosing not to say the former president’s name.
Whoopi Goldberg is ‘still not going to say his name’ after the dark events of November 5
“So what happened last night?” Whoopi Goldberg asked on the November 6 episode of The View. The room was tense and filled with despair.
She acknowledged that, unless a miracle happens, Donald Trump will be back in the Oval Office in January 2025.
“He’s the president,” Whoopi admitted. “I’m still not going to say his name. That won’t change.”
“I’m profoundly disturbed,” Sunny Hostin said. “If you look at The New York Times this morning, the headline was ‘America Makes a Perilous Choice.’”
She noted, “I think in 2016 we didn’t know what we would get from a Trump administration. We know now. We know now he will have almost unfettered power.”
Sunny Hostin made an important point: “I worry not about myself actually. I don’t worry about my station in life.”
Whoopi was not the only panelist processing Trump’s alarming return to power
On the November 6 episode of The View, Sunny Hostin went on to say, “I worry about the working class. I worry about my mother, a retired teacher.”
She listed more concerns, “I worry about our elderly and their social security and medicare. I worry about my children’s future. Especially my daughter, who has less rights than I had.”
Sunny added, “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.”
Speaking on the election, Sunny Hostin pointed out that for Trump voters, “It had nothing to do with policy. This was a referendum of cultural resentment in this country.”
She’s not entirely wrong. But there is an alarmingly large segment of the voting population that votes out of spite, not caring about the harm it may bring as long as someone else suffers more. However, there are also “low information voters” who don’t understand the economic and political damage caused by Trump’s first term.
However, the existence of “low information voters” is a failure of policy. It is a result of the long-term degradation of education and a reliance on corporate media by governments to inform disinterested voters.
