‘The View’: Joy Behar Creates New Trump Nickname After Democrats’ Midterm Tsunami

The cohosts of The View were just as stunned as anyone by the results of the 2026 midterm elections, save for one who’d totally seen a “blue tsunami” on the horizon ahead of Tuesday night. On Wednesday’s (November 4) live show, all six panelists — Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin — were on hand to react to the vote tallies so far, which saw Democrats win staggering majorities in the House, Senate, and gubernatorial races across the country.

Behar, in particular, was verklempt and even came up with a new nickname for Donald Trump in her reaction. After Griffin noted that, by losing Republican grip on Congress, Trump became a “lame duck” president (a term that means he won’t be able to get any meaningful acts through during the remainder of his term in office), Behar offered, “Can we call him ‘Lame Donald Duck’?”

.@AlyssaFarah Griffin calls Democrats’ midterm wins “the beginning of the end of the MAGA movement.”

“Today, Donald Trump is officially a lame duck president.” https://t.co/SzI3s1YcdC

— The View (@TheView) November 4, 2026

That wasn’t her only barb, either; earlier in the conversation, she said, “Donald Trump has finally united the country. And he can look at every Republican ass as they walk out the door.”

Goldberg, meanwhile, wore a floral pair of overalls as a message to America: “I wanted to give the American people their flowers, and so I am covered in flowers. It is due to the American public, to the American voters, that we are sitting and smiling and celebrating as we are. This was not, as a lot of folks have been saying, not left nor right. This was American. And a lot, a lot of history was made at the polls last night.”

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Griffin weighed in to say the results were “a total and complete repudiation of Donald Trump’s presidency and his policies. And I want to say, I think this is the beginning of the end of the MAGA movement.” She also made a prediction for its impact on the 2028 presidential race, saying, “JD Vance, your 2028 shot just went down the toilet. Marco Rubio, it’s going to look real rough for you. We are going to be looking beyond this MAGA movement because it failed us and it turned the deepest red pockets of the country blue for the first time in more of our lifetimes. It is absolutely wild. The country said, ‘We do not want this,’ and I hope the White House hears it.”

Navarro admitted that she was “emotional” about the results. “I’m really very proud of the American people. We showed that we don’t storm the Capitol; we storm the polls. Yeah, and yesterday, Donald Trump said, ‘Pretend I’m on the ballot.’ And Americans said, ‘OK, we will,’ and they grabbed him by the ballot box. And look, I got emotional last night. I got emotional because I don’t know that I can accurately explain what it’s been like to live as part of the Latino immigrant community for the last two years. It’s been incredibly frustrating and hard and painful to see people shot and killed by our government with impunity.”

Haines was the next to speak up about the results and said, “This whole ‘Blue-nami,’ as it’s called, would absolutely, first and foremost, to me, be against Trump. That is the first message I saw. The second one would be the power of the voters, and what I mean by that is not just getting out to vote. So often you hear people say, ‘Oh, I live in New York, or I live in a blue state, or a red state. Well, my vote doesn’t matter.’ Your vote does matter because we just watched how those blues can turn, or yes, red can turn blue, and so it’s getting to the polls no matter what your belief is. And the third, and really the one that makes me feel the best about everything yesterday: quality of the candidate. Democrats turned out credibility, faith, and patriotism. Republicans turned out Ken Paxton, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Darlene Graham. So when you look at the difference in those qualities of candidate, it mattered. And that’s one thing I always say is when you don’t play red or blue, you’re just looking for integrity and character. And that showed up last night in the candidate.”

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Sunny Hostin, who’d long been predicting a “blue tsunami” in this election, waited until after the commercial break to speak her piece and was credited by her cohosts for exercising restraint instead of pulling an “I told you so.” Once she finally did weigh in, she said of the results, “The reason that I knew that it was coming is because I’m 58 years old. I’m not saying that’s the oldest in the world, but I’ve lived, and for me, it just seems like in this country and all over the world, when one group is suffering, not everyone can feel their pain. Not everyone can feel empathy, and some people feel like, ‘Well, that’s not my struggle.’ But in this country, at this time in history, there was a collective struggle in America. Black people have struggled, but were struggling; 300,000 Black women lost their jobs. Black inequality in terms of pay, in terms of housing, was stark. Latinos felt they suffered…. They felt it in their communities. White farmers lost their farms. White working-class people could not drive to work. They couldn’t afford groceries. So there was this collective suffering, and I knew that America would be better in that moment because we were in it together, as you often say, Whoopi. And so I was confident that this ship would be righted.”

After their discussion, the cohosts welcomed Texas’ new senator-elect, James Talarico, for a virtual interview, and Goldberg said of his win, “We were thrilled with your win… You are where you should be.”

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