‘The View’ host agrees with pro-Trump family vacation advice: ‘It’s a moral issue for me’

After a psychologist made headlines for saying that people should avoid relatives who support Trump this holiday season, “The View” host Sunny Hostin agreed, saying that many people feel that “one voted not only for their families but against them.”

Shortly after the election, chief resident in psychiatry at Yale University Dr. Amanda Calhoun spoke with MSNBC’s Joy Reid about how liberals devastated by Trump’s re-election can cope with the news, including being separated from loved ones.

“There’s a push, I think it’s just a social norm that if someone is your family, that you have a right to your time, and I think the answer is no,” Calhoun told the interview host. “So if you go into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know voted in ways that are against you, like what you said, against your livelihood, it’s best not to be among those people and tell them why, you know, that, ‘I have a problem with the way you voted. , because it’s against the way I make a living and I won’t be with you this holiday.’

Hostin said he “absolutely” understands Calhoun’s point about distancing himself from family this holiday season.

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“I feel that this person, you know, the President-elect, Trump, is a different kind of candidate, in the things that he’s said, the things that he’s done, and the things that he’s going to do, it’s a moral issue for me. and I think it’s a moral issue for other people,” he said. “We’re just – you know, I can say that it was different when, say, Bush was elected. You may not have agreed with his principles, but you didn’t feel like he was a deeply flawed, deeply flawed person. character, has a serious moral flaw. “

Panelists Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin quickly intervened, arguing that people were really critical of former President Bush as soon as he was elected and during his two terms.

“But you have to admit, very different figures, I mean you [Griffin]once [General Mark] Milley and John Kelly, warned us how deeply flawed he was as a candidate. So, I think that when people feel like someone not only voted for their family but against them and the people that they loved, I think it’s okay to strike,” Hostin said.

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg said that while she respects the will of the voters, if she had an LGBTQ+ child, she wouldn’t want to put him in a place “where he has to live with someone who doesn’t understand him,” adding that “I feel the same way about mixed families. You know. There are some things you don’t have to put your family through.” . You can have dinner sometime, but it might not be time to gather, because, you know, there will be some tension.”

Host Whoopi Goldberg asked her co-stars how they felt about the idea of ​​avoiding the family’s political opposition this holiday season.

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“I think everyone needs to do what’s best for them,” host Ana Navarro began. “You know, I think you need to look after yourself and if – going to a family or friends gathering where it’s going to worry you, don’t go.”

However, she went on to explain that her husband has 5 children, and that although most of them and/or their spouses voted for Trump, she insists on seeing her family even though she and Navarro voted for Harris.

“In our family, he says, ‘I will not let politics divide our family.’ Al and I voted for Kamala Some didn’t see her grandkids come hell or high water.

Griffin offered similar sentiments, saying, “I’m all for healthy limits, but I tend to think that mashed potatoes are a great equalizer, like, you don’t want to spend Thanksgiving alone because you can’t put politics aside.”

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“I find that every day in all the jobs I work in and on social media, I meet people with different politics and friendship has never been disturbed. It didn’t happen that way. he had friends,” he added.

Haines also agreed, saying that although he should check himself to see what he can handle in people sometimes but, in the end, “Poisonous people don’t participate in politics, it’s an undesirable personality trait.” We all are. related to people like that, whatever the reason, I will never let my politics be the reason I can’t show up to see my family, because they won’t always be there.”