The View hosts wear all-black “funeral” attire for the post-election episode following Trump’s victory

Kathleen William November 6, 2024

After Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election The view The cast commemorated their first post-election episode by dressing in all black.

On Wednesday (November 6), the ABC daytime talk show aired its first episode since the Republican candidate was re-elected to the White House for a second term. In honor of the occasion, co-hosts Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro sat together The view Round table in matching black outfits as they discussed Trump's victory.

Joy Behar wore a black blouse under a navy velvet blazer during the episode, while co-host Sara Haines wore a dark green dress. Whoopi Goldberg was the only one The view Panelist who appeared to be not following the supposed dress code as she wore a pink floral cardigan and a light colored button-down shirt.

“The women of The view dressed in all black funeral attire,” one viewer pointed out on X/Twitter.

“The fact that the women wear all black at a funeral is very appropriate. RIP America. #THEVIEW,” said another fan.

A third user wrote: “The funeral clothes on.” The view “It’s so hard.”

The cast of “The View” wear black in the first episode since Trump won the 2024 presidential election (ABC/The View)

Goldberg started The view Post-election coverage, attempting to inject humor into the grim episode by asking her co-hosts, “So what happened last night?”

When Behar admitted that she “vehemently disagrees” with the election results, Haines took a swipe at election deniers who challenged the results of the 2020 presidential election by discouraging voters from claiming “the system must be broken” or that the choice “was”. manipulated.”

“You say it is what it is and you show up anyway,” she said.

Farah Griffin, a former Trump aide who revealed on Tuesday's episode that she voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, said that she “always believed” that Trump could win re-election but that she didn't expect it. that the results would be so overwhelmingly positive.

“I think we forget about rural America, I think the working class feels left behind,” she claimed.

However, Hostin didn't hold back when she said she was “deeply disturbed” by Trump's victory. “As a woman of color, I had great hope that a mixed-race woman married to a Jewish man could be elected president of this country,” she shared. “I think it had nothing to do with politics; I think it was a referendum on cultural resentment.”

Navarro said she was at the Harris-Walz campaign headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Election Day, which she described as a “very sad scene” after the results were announced.

“Unlike Donald Trump and his supporters, I recognize that he won. I hope for the best for our country and I commit to our LGBTQ people, our immigrants, our elders, our young girls and the women that we will not stop fighting.”

As for Goldberg, the Oscar-winning actor refused to mention him by name. “He’s the president now,” Goldberg said. “I still won’t say his name, that won’t change.”

During Trump's 2024 re-election campaign, the cast of The view has been openly critical of the Republican candidate — so much so that he called the show's commentators “really stupid people” at a rally in Pennsylvania last month. The president-elect also singled out Goldberg, who often refers to Trump as what he called “you-know-who.” The color purple Star an “insane and “disgusting” person.

“Politics can do strange things to insane people,” Trump told rally attendees in October. “Now I hired Whoopi to work for me as a comedian before this thing – a long time ago – and I went and I'm not particularly shy about what I hear; Her mouth was so bad, she was so dirty, dirty, disgusting, half the place was still left. I said I would never hire her again.”

Goldberg later responded to Trump's comments on an episode of The viewas she proudly told the audience, “I’ve always been dirty, and you knew that when you hired me. I made headlines at your casino, baby, where I might have kept playing if you hadn't broken it. How stupid are you? They hired me four times.”