Whoops.
“The View” host Whoopi Goldberg made a joke about Elon Musk and JD Vance killing Donald Trump on Thursday’s episode of the daytime talkshow, one which left her scrambling to wash up.
Goldberg, 69, made the quip throughout a dialog about the best way Musk, 53, has inserted himself into the talk in regards to the bipartisan spending invoice that lawmakers on Capitol Hill are hoping to cross and in flip keep away from a authorities shutdown.
“Who is in charge?” requested Goldberg, a vocal critic of President-elect Trump, 78. “Because I’ve been saying it for a while. I’ve been saying it – I think Elon Musk believes he’s president. I do.”
“I’ve called him vice president. I’ve called him president. Because I don’t know what JD is doing,” she added, referring to the VP-elect, 40. “I don’t remember the last time we even talked about JD.”
“The View” co-host Pleasure Behar, 82, then chimed in, saying of Vance, “He’s planning the presidency when they get rid of Trump.”
Trying stunned, Goldberg then requested Behar, “You think it’s ‘Musk-Vance’?” alluding to a theoretical presidential ticket with Musk on the high.
“Possible,” Behar replied.
“Mmmmm,” Goldberg mused to a silent studio viewers earlier than joking, “Hey, you know who [Trump] – stay away from the stairways.”
“Because, you know, people put their leg out to trip you going down the stairs. Watch out,” she added to laughs and claps.
Probably fearful in regards to the joke being misconstrued — and receiving a name from the Secret Service — Goldberg tried to stroll again the joke after a industrial break.
“I need to clean something up,” she started. “My cat lays in wait for me on my stairs all the time. That’s what I was referring to.”
“I was thinking of that,” she continued. “I wasn’t trying to indicate that they were actually standing there with their legs out hoping he would trip.”
Co-host Sunny Hostin, 56, then stepped in to attempt to assist.
“Nobody wants anything done to the president,” she insisted.
Making an attempt one other clarification, Goldberg went on to say, “It was light-hearted and it’s the holidays, c’mon! My goodness.”
Hostin weighed in once more, saying, “You did not mean that anybody should hurt the president.”
“No,” Goldberg responded. “The thing about this show, there’s no way not to step in poo. There’s no way to do it. There’s no way not to do it.”
Referring to her feline as soon as extra, she informed viewers, “I got a cat who does it to me everyday – and that’s what sparked it.”
Final month, Goldberg shared her perception that Musk shall be Trump’s de-facto president, superseding Vance.
“Musk is the real, actual vice president,” she stated on “The View.” “He’s making decisions. He’s doing things, so I think, why doesn’t he have to give up X with everything he’s done?”
