On Monday’s (June 9) episode of The View cohosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin returned to sort out the “Sizzling Subjects” of the day and, after it was manifestly omitted from Friday’s episode, the topic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk‘s very public spat lastly got here up.
After listening to what her fellow cohosts needed to say in regards to the matter, Goldberg revealed her idea: that the entire episode is faux.
“I like that ya’ll purchased into it… I do consider it’s faux,” she mentioned. “Sure, I do. It’s too strategic.”
After some disagreement from Griffin, who mentioned Goldberg is giving the 2 “an excessive amount of credit score” with that evaluation, Goldberg continued, “No, that is one other distraction to maintain us speaking not in regards to the stuff we’re speaking about however the stuff they need us to. I don’t purchase them as a result of they lie.”
Goldberg was beforehand the cohost who maintained that Musk was a “shadow president” below Trump’s second time period.
Earlier than Goldberg’s idea got here by, the others shared their takes. For Hostin, it was “very humorous” that the “massive, lovely bromance” between the 2 was over. “I imply, you could have the president of the US publicly squabbling with the richest man on the earth on the social media websites that they personal, preventing in opposition to one another. It was so messy and ridiculous and foolish,” she mentioned earlier than including, “And so they say a lady is simply too emotional to run the nation.”
Griffin then recommended that essentially the most damaging factor Musk mentioned about Trump was that he might be round longer. “The tweet that truly harm essentially the most was not Elon Musk saying JD Vance ought to change you and try to be impeached, the place you’re going to take the U.S. economic system and throw right into a recession. It was him saying Donald Trump is a lame duck. He mentioned, ‘He’s right here for 3 and a half years. I’m right here for 40 years,’” Griffin mentioned. “As a result of what he was signaling to Republicans on Capitol Hill is, ‘Be with me and be in opposition to this Huge, Stunning Invoice,’ which is Donald Trump’s whole legislative agenda. And if individuals determine, shoot Elon Musk goes to be round for lots longer than Trump, I’m going to aspect with him. That’s his entire agenda that falls aside.”
Nevertheless, she later clarified, “On this battle, my cash is on Donald Trump,” citing his said willingness to cancel Musk’s federal contracts as a cause.
For Navarro, in the meantime, “I discovered your entire ‘Yo Mama’ contest between the 2 of them… superb and entertaining, however it’s additionally horrifying as a result of the query to Trump could be, ‘If Elon Musk is so unhealthy, then how the hell did you give him unfettered entry to our data?’ To Elon Musk could be, ‘If Donald Trump is so unhealthy, then why the hell did you set in $300 million to get him and Republicans elected in order that they now haven’t any checks and balances?’”
She additionally recommended that the sudden change within the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia (a Maryland father who was deported to the El Salvador jail advanced resulting from an “administrative error,” and the Supreme Court docket ordered the federal authorities to “facilitate” his return) is indicative of one thing bigger. “I knew this factor had gotten out of hand for the White Home after they even introduced again Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador, the man that they’d disappeared into that gulag in El Salvador. They introduced him again as a result of I feel they’re so determined to distract from what the remainder of the world and America should discover essentially the most childish tantrum between two actually massive infants.”
For Haines, the entire debacle simply solidified one other political holding that she has. “It’s humorous to look at till you’re like, that’s actually the president of the US being matched tweet for tweet, on the identical stage of full madness,” she mentioned. “However the larger level right here is, you’re watching Elon Musk lose all his hundreds of thousands of price in someday, and then you definitely’re watching this invoice that’s going so as to add trillions to our deficit. Why don’t we simply tax the billionaires? They’re going to lose it for enjoyable.”
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