‘I’m Profoundly Disturbed!’ Sunny Hostin Denounces Trump Win as a ‘Referendum On Cultural Resentment’ in Jawdropping A-Block on ‘The View’

The co-hosts of ABC’s The View set a conciliatory tone off the bat on Wednesday after former President Donald Trump won reelection, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris. But Sunny Hostin made it clear that her disappointment ran deep.

The co-hosts — including former Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin — all voiced their support for Harris and were steadfast critics of Trump. The day after his decisive victory (with three of them dressed in black), Hostin was the first to express her very serious concern:

Hostin: I’m profoundly disturbed. 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. And so I worry not about myself, actually, I don’t worry about my station in life. I worry about the working class. I worry about my mother, a retired teacher. I worry about our elderly and their Social Security and their Medicare. I worry about my children’s future, especially my daughter, who now has less rights than I have. And I remember my father telling me many, many years ago that I was the first person in his family to enjoy full civil rights. And now I have less civil rights than I had when he told me that.

So, again, 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. I think that going forward, the “convicted felon” box on employment applications better be taken off because if you can be the president of the United States then you should not be prevented from employment in this country. Because I remember applying for my jobs as a federal prosecutor, and there was a box for convicted felons. And so that box better be taken off. And I think our health care system is now at risk.

Joy Behar: No fluoride for anyone!

Hostin: Yeah, economists have made clear that he’s going to increase the debt by $7.75 trillion. I’m worried about mass deportation and internment camps. And I’m also worried about Elon Musk warning Americans to prepare for “temporary hardship.” I’m surprised at the result, 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.

Ana Navarro was an active volunteer for the Harris campaign, but said while she “had no regrets”:

I worked hard as hell to elect the first Black-Asian woman president. History slipped through our fingers again. I worked hard as hell for Donald Trump not to be president. But today, unlike Donald Trump and his followers, I acknowledge that he won. I hope for the best for our country. And I make a commitment to our LGBTQ, to our immigrants, to our elderly, to our young girls, to the women that we will not stop fighting. We can be sad today. Today we can be sad. Tomorrow we stand up and we continue. We have every right as Americans because we love this country, because this is the most exceptional country in the world. We have the right and the duty to speak up and denounce abuses of power, to be vigilant. And so I invite all Americans to do it. But we are doing what they didn’t do. We are recognizing they won. Now, let’s see what happens when he is governing.

Whoopi Goldberg reminded viewers that their message on the show was to support the democratic process, telling people to vote, but not for whom they should vote. That said, she had to take a moment to praise Harris’s last-minute presidential campaign:

So you start with that and think about this — she did this in two months! She did this in two months! Everybody can always say, oh, she should have done this, she should have done this. She did what she did. 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 gonna change.

Watch the video above via ABC.