Sunny Hostin spent part of Tuesday’s broadcast of “The View” on ABC complaining that President Donald Trump had been allowed to take the oath of office on Monday, beginning his second term on Martin Luther King Day.
Hostin, who admitted that she did not watch any of the proceedings because she’d “decided to protect my peace,” argued that it was hypocritical to have Trump sworn in on a day honoring King.
Instead of watching the inauguration, she said she’d chosen to participate in a service day in Harlem with her sorority sisters.
“He’s not a statesman, that’s not who he is,” she said, later adding, “The one thing I did think about was the hypocrisy of having a man be inaugurated to be president on the same day as we commemorate MLK, and that same man saying that he was going to get rid of diversity, equity and inclusion.”
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Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) calls for reparations again (for her self included).
She also claims Trump "didn't become the president of the United States because of merit," despite winning popular vote, and that he's the real "DEI hire, a didn't… pic.twitter.com/iHn0zmPife— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 21, 2025
Hostin went on to say that MLK Jr. had “not only wanted racial equality” but had also wanted “economic equality,” and that he had referred to reparations as a form of “justice.” She did not say how she might figure into that particular equation, given the recent revelation on an episode of “Finding Your Roots” that her own ancestors had “likely” owned slaves.
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Complaining that Trump has called for a move toward “meritocracy,” Hostin then asserted — even though he won both the Electoral College and the popular vote in the 2024 election — that Trump himself “didn’t become the president of the United States because of merit.”
“He hasn’t — he had no political experience whatsoever,” she added, leaving out the fact that he has, in fact, already served one term as president. “He was given everything that he has. He is a legacy hire. He is, if anything, a DEI hire, a didn’t earn it hire.”
Trump is the second president to be sworn in on MLK Day. Former President Bill Clinton started his second term on the commemorative holiday in 1997. Additionally, after being sworn in on Sunday, January 20, both former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama held multiple inaugural events on the holiday in 1985 and 2013, respectively. It was Reagan, in 1983, who declared that the third Monday in January would be recognized in honor of the Civil Rights leader.
