For the primary “Sizzling Matter” of the day on Wednesday’s (June 4) version of The View, the cohosts received into the topic of Elon Musk‘s disdain for Donald Trump‘s finances package deal, which he calls the “Large Lovely Invoice.” Within the full of life chat, each Whoopi Goldberg and Pleasure Behar concluded that Trump remains to be frightened of Musk, even after he left his position as the pinnacle of the “Division of Authorities Effectivity” a.ok.a. “DOGE.”
Goldberg started the dialogue by invoking her newly-launched nickname for Trump, “Taco D,” and saying, “The man who was employed to chop authorities spending — bear in mind Elon Musk? — yeah, effectively, he pulled an all-nighter on social media, tearing into the so-called ‘Large, Lovely Invoice’ … He shredded it. He slammed it as an outrageous, disgusting abomination, and known as out Republicans who voted for it, writing that in November subsequent 12 months, we’ll hearth politicians who betrayed the American folks.” After rolling clips of individuals reacting to Musk’s dissent, Goldberg stated, “Nicely, President Taco D has but to reply. And I do surprise why Elon thinks persons are going to pay attention now to him, as a result of he simply spent a number of months destroying folks’s lives.”
After Behar famous that Musk has excessive favorability amongst Trump voters, she stated, “He’s hurting Trump in a manner.”
Then, Sara Haines tried to elucidate Musk’s response to the invoice, saying, “I believe a part of his criticism is that he did minimize all these issues — poorly and haphazardly — however this invoice undoes a few of that. So it’s like, ‘What was I doing right here?’ And I believe it’s a flash level. This invoice is a flash level for the fracture that already exists within the Republican Occasion between this populist nationwide motion and the old-school conservatives, they usually’re form of battling it out with one another, as, ‘Do we would like this small authorities, or will we need to spend and do issues just like the border in right here?’” She then criticized one of many individuals who spoke within the response clip, Marjorie Taylor Inexperienced, saying, “She really regrets voting for it, and it solely went by by one vote… to return out and say out loud, like, ‘Oh, whoops, I missed that…’”
“You might have one job if you’re in Congress to do the work, to do the work and browse the invoice,” Sunny Hostin then stated, incomes applause. “At the least learn the synopsis!”
Hostin then went on to criticize Musk’s strikes with DOGE, saying, “The harm that he did was actually simply unimaginable. He slashed 250,000 federal staff, greater than 8,500 contracts, greater than 10,000 grants, and his cutbacks on medical analysis… for the international support price 300,000 lives, largely youngsters. That’s the harm that Elon Musk did. So I don’t suppose anybody needs to be listening to him about something!”
“A number of us predicted that this break up was going to occur,” Alyssa Farah Griffin added. “However what I’m most struck by is, how is Elon Musk shocked that no person, together with Trump, cares about deficits? Donald Trump ran on plenty of issues. There have been plenty of issues he stated he was going to do. He by no means stated he was going to deal with the deficit. Actually, nobody has really actually tackled it since Invoice Clinton about 30 years in the past. That is simply not one thing that’s been a precedence to politicians.”
“If you’ll ask any budgetary skilled, you would need to minimize entitlement, it’s important to minimize protection spending, and it’s important to drastically elevate taxes or some mixture,” she continued. “These cuts have been by no means really going to do this. So it’s simply form of wealthy that he’s enjoying shocked immediately. … And by the best way, Elon Musk is a big Pentagon contract recipient.”
Griffin then provided a prediction that Musk may “tank” Trump’s legislative agenda, saying, “If Republicans determine, ‘Ooh, we don’t need to get on the incorrect aspect of Elon,’ that’s what Donald Trump is banking in any respect on, and that’s form of devastating for his administration. On the flip aspect, these Republicans, should you’re in a home district, you’re like, I’m afraid of Donald Trump, however Elon Musk, due to the darkish cash system we dwell in, he can are available in and first you by simply pouring tens of millions and tens of millions into your race.”
“Elon is aware of the 411 on every little thing,” Goldberg then jumped in to say. “He is aware of how all this connects… So now immediately, he’s like, ‘Harrumph!’”
“Trump needs to be afraid of him,” Behar stated. “He has the receipts on the election.”
“I believe he is afraid of him,” Goldberg agreed.
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