Several of the hosts of ABC’s “The View” argued on Tuesday that Americans should consider cutting family members and friends out of their traditional holiday get-togethers if they voted for President-elect Donald Trump.
Stating that it was a “moral issue,” Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg pushed the idea during the midday broadcast. The pair suggested that those people deserved to be cut out because they had voted against people they claimed to love — and Goldberg worried that they might say offensive things to any gay children who might be present.
Sara Haines kicked off the discussion, and she was opposed to the idea.
“Whatever your reason is, I would never let my politics be the reason I don’t show up to see my family because they want me to be there,” she said.
“I’m gonna disagree,” Hostin said. “I completely understand her point because I really do feel that this candidate, you know, President-elect Trump is just a different type of candidate. From the things he’s said and the things he’s done, and the things he will do, it’s more of a moral issue for me, and I think it’s more of a moral issue for other people.”
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Hostin went on to claim that she would have felt differently about former President George W. Bush — who was also referred to by many on the left as “Hitler” on a regular basis — because she didn’t feel like he was as “deeply flawed” as Trump.
“Deeply flawed by character, deeply flawed in morality,” Hostin continued. “I think when people feel that someone voted not only against their families but against them, and against people that they love, I think it’s okay to take a beat.
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Whoopi also suggests people shouldn’t visit Trump-voting family for the holidays because they’re going to lash out and attack their gay children.
She also seemed the suggest the same thing for racially “mixed families.” pic.twitter.com/h3l2rVQi39— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 12, 2024
“I appreciate the voters, but I will say, somebody who tells me that my child is wrong because of how he or she feels, that tells me that they shouldn’t be allowed to be who they are with my permission, I have to question it,” Goldberg added. “I don’t want to put my kid in that position. I don’t want to put my gay child in a position where she has to sit with someone who doesn’t understand her and feels like it’s okay to just blurt all of that out. That’s just me.”
“With mixed families I feel the same way,” she added. “There are certain things where you don’t have to put your family in the middle of it. You can have dinner at another point but it might not be the time to gather because you know there’s gonna be some tension … but I’m not tense, my daughter’s not gay.”
Goldberg explained that she’d had to clear that last bit up, so she didn’t get a call from her daughter about it.
