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 Matters” 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 concerning the matter, Goldberg revealed her idea: that the entire episode is pretend.
“I like that ya’ll purchased into it… I do consider it’s pretend,” 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 concerning 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” underneath Trump’s second time period.
Earlier than Goldberg’s idea got here via, the others shared their takes. For Hostin, it was “very humorous” that the “massive, lovely bromance” between the 2 was over. “I imply, you’ve gotten the president of the US publicly squabbling with the richest man on the planet 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, “They usually say a lady is just too emotional to run the nation.”
Griffin then recommended that probably the most damaging factor Musk mentioned about Trump was that he can be round longer. “The tweet that truly harm probably the most was not Elon Musk saying JD Vance ought to exchange you and try to be impeached, the place you’re going to take the U.S. financial 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 Large, Stunning Invoice,’ which is Donald Trump’s complete legislative agenda. And if individuals determine, shoot Elon Musk goes to be round for lots longer than Trump, I’m going to facet with him. That’s his complete 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 purpose.
For Navarro, in the meantime, “I discovered the complete ‘Yo Mama’ contest between the 2 of them… wonderful and entertaining, but it surely’s additionally horrifying as a result of the query to Trump can be, ‘If Elon Musk is so unhealthy, then how the hell did you give him unfettered entry to our info?’ To Elon Musk can be, ‘If Donald Trump is so unhealthy, then why the hell did you place 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 surprising change within the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia (a Maryland father who was deported to the El Salvador jail complicated resulting from an “administrative error,” and the Supreme Courtroom 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 believe they’re so determined to distract from what the remainder of the world and America should discover probably 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 degree of full madness,” she mentioned. “However the greater level right here is, you’re watching Elon Musk lose all his tens of millions of value in in the future, and then you definately’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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