‘The View’s Sunny Hostin “Scared” By Trump’s “World War II Rhetoric” In Campaign Speech: “We Need To Be On Guard”

Sunny Hostin admitted to The View this morning that she was frightened by Donald Trump‘s remarks in a recent campaign speech the former POTUS made at an Ohio rally over the weekend.

While addressing a crowd of supporters in Dayton, Ohio on Saturday (March 16), Trump warned of a “bloodbath” if he doesn’t win the presidency in November, and honored those imprisoned for their involvement in the insurrection as “hostages,” per The New York Times.

He also referred to migrants entering the United States as “not people” and described them as “animals.”

While discussing Trump’s speech on The View this morning, Hostin told her co-hosts, “It scared me. I didn’t think, ever in my lifetime, I would see that.”

Hostin said Trump’s remarks made her think of the Apple TV+ series The New Look, which follows designers in Paris during the Nazi occupation. She then recalled a conversation in which one character says, “‘We took all the things that the Jews had. We took their homes, we took their jewelry, we took all of those things. And now the next step is to dehumanize them. To show people that they have no soul, that they are not human.'”

Hostin said Trump’s comments were similar to the dialogue in the show, telling her co-hosts, “He is using that kind of World War II rhetoric that led to the deaths, the murders, of six million people.”

She continued, “And now he is otherizing brown people. He is otherizing Black people. He is saying things like this: ‘I don’t think you’re going to have another election if I don’t win. Or certainly not an election that’s meaningful,'” quoting a line Trump delivered at his Saturday rally.

“He’s saying the quiet part out loud: If I am not elected, we are going to see January 6 again,” Hostin said of Trump. “And I think we need to be on guard to make sure that we preserve our democracy so that our country looks the way that it should look, like all of us. It’s a diverse country, that’s what America was built upon.”

The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.