Disneyland Candy Canes are trending because Disneyland released a schedule of when you can buy them. Apparently they are too popular to just put on the shelves without a schedule.
The View is trending because people want to tune in to watch these ladies absolutely lose it over the election results that they tried so damn hard to prevent. Classic example of schadenfreude. It has already begun.
Chauncy Glover is trending because the Los Angeles CBS News anchorman died at the age of 39 for as-yet-unreported reasons.