Several hosts of “The View” discussed whether they would avoid family members if they voted for President-elect Donald Trump.
One of the show’s hosts, Ana Navarro, said people “need to do what’s right for them,” going on to describe that while she and her husband voted for Vice President Kamala Harris and other family members voted for President-elect Donald Trump, they will not allow politics “split up” their family.
While other hosts said they would not allow politics to get in the way of Thanksgiving, Sunny Hostin said she perceives the matter as a “moral issue.”
“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,” Hostin explained.
Whoopi Goldberg declared that she would not “put [her] 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 that out.”
“That’s just me, but I feel like that with mixed families, I feel the same way. Yeah, you know, there are certain things where you don’t have to put your family in the middle of it,” Goldberg added. “You can have dinner at another point, but it might not be the time to gather, because, you know, there’s going to be some tension. That’s what I’m saying. But I’m not tense. My daughter’s not gay.”
The discussion followed Yale University chief psychiatry resident Dr. Amanda Calhoun saying that individuals upset by former President Donald Trump’s re-election should distance themselves from loved ones during the holiday season.
“So, if you are going into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you… it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why,” Calhoun said.
