She’s by no means been shy in sharing her opinion — however now Sunny Hostin has one much less platform to do it on.
“The View” co-host has confirmed she deleted her X account within the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential election win, saying she believes it was a “patriotic” act.
Hostin, 56, made the admission on the “Behind The Table” podcast earlier this week, saying she not desires to be related to the positioning as a result of it’s owned by avid Trump supporter Elon Musk.
“I think the most patriotic thing I could do right now is just to delete the account,” the avowed Democrat declared.
“Elon Musk took it over and I feel like he ruined it,” she acknowledged of the platform previously generally known as Twitter. “Black Twitter was a thing that I loved and it was sort of replaced… with miosognyn and racism.”
“I don’t want to be affiliated with anything that he owns,” the TV host added.”I’m not going to purchase a Tesla, I’m not going to purchase Tesla inventory.”
Hostin was trolled on the social media website final week after she blamed “uneducated white women” and Latino males for Trump’s victory.
“I think [Trump’s victory] had nothing to do with policy, I think this was a referendum on cultural resentment in this country,” she acknowledged through the episode of “The View” recorded the morning after election day.
“Why do you think uneducated white women voting against their reproductive health freedoms, and why do you think Latino men voted in favor of someone who is going to deport a majority of his community,” the co-host requested Rick Klein, ABC political information director.
“I don’t think white women like being called uneducated white women,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin snapped again.
Hostin later corrected herself to say the time period she ought to have used was “non college-educated white women.”
Nonetheless, Hostin got here underneath hearth from many on X.
“She is a bitter miserable hateful woman,” one X person raged.
“Sunny is willfully ignorant and biased,” one other posted. “People like her have built a lucrative career based on identity politics.”
Hostin informed the “Behind The Table” podcast that she doesn’t interact with X customers.
“While I don’t read the comments, my team does and they were talking about the death threats that I was getting and all of this horrible stuff,” she acknowledged.
