Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) shared his thoughts on the nationwide protests against President Donald Trump, describing them as a profound “moral moment” and “food for the soul” during an appearance on ABC News’s The View.
“How happy were you to see all the folks that came out around the country,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked Booker during the show on Monday.
“It was, for me, food for the soul,” Booker replied, reflecting on the massive turnout.
The discussion focused on the 1,200 demonstrations organized across all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C., on Saturday to protest President Trump and his policies, as well as his collaboration with Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk. The protests specifically targeted the rapid downsizing and cuts to waste in the federal government.
“We really are at a moral moment,” Booker continued. “As we have been in generations past — the suffrage movement, the labor movement, the LGBTQ movement, and so many other movements — we’ve seen Americans join arms.”
“This is going to stay with Americans every day until this stuff is fixed,” Goldberg responded.
Co-host Sara Haines then asked how Democrats could capitalize on this momentum.
“I know we are working in a tribal moment where we talk about terms in a binary way, but what I’m hearing are Republicans who are afraid that if they lose their program for disabled children, their whole economy falls apart,” Booker explained.
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“I’m hearing from these bold and noble veterans who are saying, ‘You’re cutting 80,000 jobs, and now, I, as a female veteran, am going to have to wait for basic gynecological care for months and months and months,’” he added.
“If we say it’s a right versus left issue, we’re really wrong. It’s about right or wrong,” Booker emphasized. “We need to stand up and call it a moral moment. My hope for my party is that we are less concerned about our party than we are about the people we want to serve.”