After Elon Musk‘s controversial press convention on the Oval Workplace, The View cohosts continued their condemnation of his nebulous entry to the whole federal equipment, as authorised by Donald Trump.
Wednesday’s (February 12) episode began with a clip of Musk taking questions from reporters on the White Home, with Trump sitting quietly alongside him on the Resolute Desk. Then, it targeted on a portion the place he admitted to getting it improper when his DOGE claimed the U.S. spent $50 million on condoms in Gaza.
After a short apart in regards to the presence of Musk’s little one, X Æ A-Xii, being current (after which Whoopi Goldberg insisted, “I don’t wish to hear anybody mess about our names”), the hosts dug into the meat of the second.
“Over the past decade, final 10 years, Musk’s corporations, SpaceX, and Tesla have been awarded not less than $18 billion in federal contracts… and because the president’s election, his internet price has elevated $64 billion, or practically 25 %,” Goldberg stated. “So yeah, I’m going to say, ‘You wish to minimize one thing? Reduce a number of the stuff you’re taking out.’”
Goldberg continued to rail in opposition to the unfettered entry Musk and DOGE are being given to delicate details about companies and the American folks, saying, “I get that there’s fats all over the place, and sure, we’d all prefer to see much less of it, however what you’re doing is much more than simply chopping fats. You’re giving folks info they need to not have as a result of they’re not the folks whose info it’s… and no person elected you.”
Sunny Hostin then took up the mantle of declaring some obvious conflicts between what Musk is doing with these personnel cuts and his personal private monetary pursuits, saying, “What can be very fascinating is the chopping that he has carried out with the federal companies, these exact same companies have 32 persevering with investigations, complaints, or enforcement actions in opposition to his corporations. These are the companies and the folks that he’s chopping. So all of it’s enduring to his profit.”
Hostin additionally identified that Musk’s statements on democracy are counter to his personal private upbringing, saying, “What is absolutely wealthy to me once more is that he’s not elected, and he’s speaking about our American democracy, a person who grew up in South Africa in the course of the apartheid period, who benefited from apartheid, is the very antithesis to our American democracy.”
Sara Haines referred to as out the shortage of transparency with Musk and DOGE, saying, “He stated in that press convention, ‘You possibly can go to DOGE on X,’ which he owns. In order that’s a part of the issue right here. However then he says, ‘Go to the DOGE web site.’ On there, the primary issues you are able to do is purchase a meme coin, T-shirts, and hats. I couldn’t discover it, and I actually regarded for any piece of knowledge that may very well be portrayed as some transparency. He has one debt chart. That’s a graph. And I’m like, ‘Okay, we already knew we had issues with our debt. The place’s the brand new info?’ No clickable hyperlinks, nothing. So when he says it’s public, I’m unsure what he means.”
Pleasure Behar echoed the grievance about Musk’s mistake about spending, saying, “For 2 weeks, we heard this concept that they spent $50 million on condoms proper in Gaza, proper? It’s not even Gaza within the Center East. It’s Gaza in Mozambique. They didn’t even know that… Elon Musk goes, ‘Properly, I made a mistake.’ In the meantime, you perpetuated the lie for the previous two weeks, identical to they did about these Haitians consuming cats and canines. Lies, lies, and extra lies.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin as soon as once more took difficulty with the shortage of transparency about what DOGE is doing and why, saying, “My critique is that after they do launch the place they’re chopping from, they don’t inform us why they’re eliminating it, what they’re changing if a service is misplaced… Consider [Health and Human Services] and if we had, God forbid, one other pandemic, you don’t wish to discover out later, ‘Oops, I didn’t bat 1000 and we removed that.’”
Griffin went on to say that she thinks that there’s a purpose Trump is letting Musk do all of the speaking about DOGE and these drastic job cuts, saying, “I really suppose that Trump’s doing one thing strategic by having Elon personal this as a result of it’s going to get much less and fewer common when folks see that issues they like are being taken away, and he’s going guilty Elon.”
Goldberg agreed, saying, “When folks begin keeling over as a result of we’re not getting the details about what diseases are on the market … He’ll do what he at all times does is, he has this capability to slip out of there and all people else eats the poop.”
The View, Weekdays, 11 a.m. ET, ABC