Whoopi Goldberg refuses to say Donald Trump’s name on-air after election win

Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Trump. Credit: Getty Images

Whoopi Goldberg refused to say Donald Trump‘s name on The View following his victory in the 2024 presidential election.

Goldberg and her fellow hosts Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, Joy Behar and Alyssa Farah Griffin came together on the November 6 episode of the ABC talk show to discuss the result. All six women voted for Kamala Harris at the election, including outspoken Republican and former Trump aide Griffin.

“So what happened last night?” Goldberg asked her co-hosts while refraining from using Trump’s name. “He’s the president. I’m still not going to say his name. That’s not going to change.”

“I’m profoundly disturbed,” Hostin said about the result. “If you look at The New York Times this morning, the headline was ‘America Makes a Perilous Choice.’ 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.

“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 medicare. I worry about my children’s future, especially my daughter who has less rights than I had.”

Hostin added: “As a woman of colour, I was so hopeful that a mixed race woman married to a Jewish guy could be elected president of this country. It had nothing to do with policy. This was a referendum of cultural resentment in this country.”
Whoopi Goldberg refused to say Donald Trump’s name on The View. CREDIT: Getty/Photo by Manoli Figetakis/Getty Images