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‘I Am Profoundly Disturbed’: Sunny Hostin Spends Over 2 Minutes Emotionally Lamenting Trump’s Victory

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin emotionally lamented President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory Wednesday following the 2024 election.

Trump won the 2024 election in a landslide victory against Vice President Kamala Harris Wednesday morning after securing 277 electoral votes, with some states still yet to be called. Hostin grieved the president-elect’s victory by stating he would harm the elderly, take rights away from women and have “almost unfettered power.”

“I’m profoundly disturbed,” Hostin said. “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. 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 the 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 … So again, I am 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 need to 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. So that box better be taken off,” Hostin continued.

Colorado and Maine both attempted to remove Trump from the state ballot in December for the GOP primary, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits elected officials from holding office if they commit an insurrection. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Trump cannot be removed from the Colorado ballot, stating that it is the role of Congress, not the states, to hold federal officeholders accountable for an insurrection. (RELATED: Sunny Hostin Says Without Evidence That Melania ‘Hates’ Trump, ‘Wants To Take Him Out’) 

Hostin further expressed concern that Trump will execute mass deportations and construct so-called “internment camps” for illegal immigrants and will raise the national debt with his economic policies. She then blamed Harris’ loss on voters’ “cultural resentment” against the idea of a mixed-raced woman being president.

“I’m surprised at the results, 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,” Hostin said.

Co-host Ana Navarro said she is “disappointed” with Trump’s victory and called on Americans to stand up against “abuses of power.”