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Whoopi Goldberg still refuses to say Donald Trump’s name despite his historic election victory
Whoopi Goldberg is still refusing to say Donald Trump’s name despite his historic election victory, which her co-host has blamed on ‘uneducated white women’.
Goldberg, 68, has refused to say Trump’s name on The View since he first took office in 2016 and made clear on the talk show yesterday ‘that’s not going to change’.
Discussing the election results with her co-hosts, Goldberg expressed her disappointment that ‘people didn’t come out’ to vote for Kamala Harris.
But Sunny Hostin, who said she was ‘profoundly disturbed’ by the election outcome, argued the Democrat ran a ‘flawless campaign’ and claimed Trump’s victory was a ‘referendum on cultural resentment’ in the US.
She then blamed ‘uneducated white women’ and ‘Latino men’ for his victory, claiming they voted in favor of policies that will negatively impact them.
The View hosts, with the exception of Goldberg, dressed for a funeral Wednesday morning as they discussed their disappointment in election results on the highly popular show.
Goldberg, who expressed her admiration for Harris and her campaign, shared how she wanted people to turn up to the polls.
‘We said to people ‘vote’, we didn’t tell them who to vote for,’ she told her co-hosts. ‘I didn’t tell people [who to vote for] because I wanted people to exercise that right. Too many people that I know died trying to vote.’
She hailed Harris for rallying supporters and launching a wide-reaching campaign in a period of just ‘two months’.
‘She was everywhere. She talked to everybody and people didn’t come out, I don’t know why and it doesn’t even matter. He’s now the President. I’m still not going to say his name. That’s not going to change.’
Goldberg in 2018 admitted that she never says Trump’s name, telling CNN’s The Axe Files that she ‘can’t’ bear to say it or call him ‘President’.
But her co-host Hostin, 56, took her frustration one step further, placing the blame on white women and Latino men.
think [Trump’s victory] had nothing to do with policy, I think this was a referendum on cultural resentment in this country,’ she told the show.
‘Black women tried to save this country again, last night… what we do not have is white women, who voted about 52 per cent for Donald Trump – uneducated white women is my understanding. You have Latino men actually, voting more for him.’
She then asked ABC political news director Rick Klein: ‘So why do you think uneducated white women voting against their reproductive health freedoms, and why do you think Latino men voted in favor of someone who is going to deport a majority of his community?’
But co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, also sporting an all black attire, shot back saying, ‘I don’t think white women like being called uneducated white women.’