Whoopi Goldberg Makes Rare Friday Appearance On ‘The View’ To Name He Who She Doesn’t Name; Sunny Hostin Predicts Rikers For Trump

Greg Evans
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“Do not adjust your TV set,” Whoopi Goldberg said at the start of today’s The View. “Yes, I’m here on a Friday because this is a very unique moment in history.”

Goldberg, who usually has Fridays off from the ABC daytime talk show, then offered up her own unique moment in history.

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“I’m going to say something you’ve never heard me say before,” she said mock-solemnly, “but Donald John Trump is a convicted felon.”

For years, Goldberg has refused to say Trump’s name on the show, a running joke in which she refers to him only as You Know Who.

Watch some clips below.

But it was co-host Sunny Hostin, the show’s resident lawyer and legal expert, who drew the biggest gasps from the studio audience when she predicted a one-year prison sentence for Trump.

Hostin said she “spent the morning talking to someone from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office” and that “he believes they will recommend a one-year term in prison and that is because when you spend a year in prison in New York, or under, you serve in Rikers Island.” At that point, the audience responded with a surprised “oooohhh” followed by applause.

Hostin then said she thinks Trump could serve six months at Rikers and then serve four-and-a-half years probation, to which co-host Joy Behar quipped, “And six months at this table.”

Yesterday’s Trump conviction on 34 counts in his hush-money trial obviously dominated the View‘s Hot Topics opening segment, with most of the co-hosts welcoming the jury verdicts. Anti-Trump Republican Ana Navarro called out her party’s hypocrisy in calling itself the party of law and order, and Alyssa Farah Griffin, Republican and former assistant to Trump, said, “Running for president to stay out of jail is a hell of a motivator…he’s going to do and say absolutely anything he can to get elected so buckle up because there’s rage and retribution ahead.”

Co-host Sara Haines was a bit more trepidatious in her reaction, saying she was scared of potential violence surrounding the ruling and confused as to how Americans will explain the Trump situation to their children.

At that point in the conversation, Hostin jumped back in. “I didn’t feel somber. I felt like the Knicks won the tournament. I felt like America won. I felt like New York won. I felt like the Manhattan D.A.’s office won. I felt like I won.”

At the end of the show, before her usual “Take a little time to enjoy the view” sign-off, Goldberg said, “So, to recap, guilty, guilty, guilty,” saying the word 34 times to growing audience applause.

Watch Goldberg say Trump’s name in the clip below.

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