The View Revels in Pitting Trump Against Musk Amid Budget Chaos: Elon ‘Believes He’s President!’
The hosts of The View questioned the influence and ambitions of Elon Musk after the billionaire supporter of President-elect Donald Trump helped get a spending bill killed that would prevent a government shutdown.
Both Trump and Musk have been highly critical of a continuing resolution supported by House Speaker Mike Johnson. Trump has even called for the debt ceiling to be abolished entirely. Johnson told Fox News that he was speaking with Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy just before the continuing resolution died and both were expressing dissatisfaction with the spending included.
“It has a lot of folks asking, who is in charge? Because I’ve been saying it for awhile, I’ve been saying it, I think Elon Musk believes he’s president. I do!” Whoopi Goldberg said at the top of Thursday’s The View.
“You’ve been calling him vice president,” Joy Behar added.
Goldberg questioned whether Musk has quietly moved into Vice President-elect JD Vance’s role.
“I called him vice president, I called him president because I don’t know what JD [Vance] Is doing. I hardly ever — I don’t remember the last time we even talked about JD,” she said.
“He is planning the presidency when they get rid of Trump,” Behar predicted about Vance.
“So you think it’s Musk/Vance?” Goldberg asked.
“Possible,” Behar said.
Goldberg got the table laughing by suggesting Trump avoid “stairways,” a comment she made clear later was not intended to suggest there would be actual violence against Trump.
“Hey, you-know-who, stay away from the stairways because, you know, people put their leg out to trip you going down the stairs. Watch out. But it kind of seems like maybe he is the president, because he got a promotion of some sort that none of us knew about,” she said.
The show then rolled the clip of Johnson telling Fox about his conversations with Musk and Ramaswamy in which they told him they were “not happy” with the continuing resolutions.
“It kind of seems like maybe he is the president because he got a promotion of some sort that none of us knew about,” Goldberg said about Musk.
Alyssa Farah Griffin, who worked in Trump’s first administration, predicted there are choppy waters ahead for Trump and Musk despite them being “aligned” against the spending bill.
“They both have main character energy, they both want to be powerful and the people in charge, and I’m not convinced that this alliance is going to be super long lasting,” she said. “There’s going to be friction between Elon and Trump.”
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