The View gathered astir nan Hot Topics array this greeting pinch an power of hopefulness contempt nan statesmanlike triumph of Donald Trump. While nan show has spent nan past fewer months criticizing Trump’s antics and throwing its support down Vice President Kamala Harris, nan ladies tried their champion to enactment optimistic arsenic they analyzed nan blimpish activity that secured nan statesmanlike predetermination for Trump.
However, not everyone was maintaining a hopeful outlook for nan future. Sunny Hostin formed a alternatively bleak look astatine what nan adjacent 4 years could bring, confessing to her co-hosts that she was “profoundly disturbed” by Trump’s victory.
“In 2016, we didn’t cognize what we would get from a Trump administration, but we cognize now,” Hostin began. “We cognize now that he will person almost unfettered power, and truthful I worry, not astir myself, actually. I don’t interest astir my position successful life. I interest astir nan moving class. I interest astir my mother, a retired teacher. I interest astir our aged and their societal information and their medicare. I interest astir my children’s future, particularly my daughter, who now has little authorities than I have.”
Hostin, being nan show’s ineligible master and a erstwhile charismatic herself, besides noted that nan 14th amendment didn’t extremity Trump — a convicted felon who Hostin said “participated successful an insurrection” — from clinching nan presidency.
“I deliberation that going forward, nan convicted felon container connected employment applications amended beryllium taken off, because if you tin beryllium nan president of nan United States, past you should not beryllium prevented from employment successful this country,” she proclaimed.
The co-host besides said she feared for nan country’s healthcare strategy and worried Trump would summation nan nationalist indebtedness by trillions. She continued, “I’m worried astir wide deportation and internment camps, and I’m besides worried astir Elon Musk informing Americans to hole for impermanent hardship.”
Admitting she was some “surprised” and “not surprised” by Trump’s win, Hostin said she had been “so hopeful” America would elite Harris, “a mixed-race female joined to a Jewish guy.” The co-host said she thought Trump’s triumph really “had thing to do pinch policy.” Instead, she said, it was “a referendum of taste resentment successful this country.”
The View airs weekdays astatine 11/10c connected ABC.