Whoopi Airs Fever Dream On Live TV, Says Musk And Vance Could Be Plotting Hostile Takeover

“The View” host Whoopi Goldberg — with an assist from cohost Joy Behar — suggested that entrepreneur Elon Musk and Vice President-elect JD Vance were plotting a hostile takeover to gain control of the White House.

During Thursday’s broadcast of the ABC midday talk show, Goldberg wondered about the amount of influence Musk was having on policy as Trump’s inauguration approaches.

Noting that she was not the only person questioning “who is in charge,” she added, “I’ve been saying it for a while. I’ve been saying that Elon Musk believes he’s president. I do.”

“Well, you’ve been calling him vice president,” Behar interjected.

“I called him vice president, I called him president, because I don’t know what JD is doing,” Goldberg continued. “I hardly ever — I don’t — I don’t remember the last time we even talked about JD.”

“He’s planning the presidency when they get rid of Trump,” Behar said.

“So you think it’s Musk — Musk-Vance?” Goldberg asked.

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“It’s possible,” Behar replied.

Goldberg then turned to the camera, addressing Trump directly despite the fact that she still refuses to say his name aloud: “Hey, You-Know-Who, stay away from the stairways.”

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After a commercial break, Whoopi tries to downplay her assassination comments about Trump by claiming she was thinking about her cat: "My cat lays in wait for me on my stairs all the time and that's what I was referring [to]."
"No one wants anything done to the President." Hostin pic.twitter.com/4qUc0thEYT

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 19, 2024

By the time the show came back from commercial break, Goldberg had apparently thought better of suggesting that someone might try to kill Trump and take control of the presidency.

“Okay, I need to clean something up,” she said. “Because my cat lays in wait for me on my stairs all the time and that’s what I was referring — I was thinking of that, I wasn’t trying to indicate that they were actually standing there with their legs out, hoping he would trip.”

“No one wants anything done to the president,” cohost Sunny Hostin added.

“It was light-hearted and it’s the holidays, come on,” she complained. “My goodness!”

“We did not mean that anybody should hurt the president,” Hostin said again.

Critics quickly pointed out the fact that “The View” falls under ABC’s “news” division — and that the network just agreed on Saturday to shell out millions over “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos’ on-air false claims that President-elect Donald Trump had been found “liable for rape” in the E. Jean Carroll case.

“Fresh off a $15 million defamation settlement, ABC allows The View to fantasize about assassination plots against President-elect Trump,” Chad Gilmartin posted.

Fresh off a $15 million defamation settlement, ABC allows The View to fantasize about assassination plots against President-elect Trump https://t.co/LBW9gB8FwG

— Chad Gilmartin (@ChadGilmartinCA) December 19, 2024

“The View falls under ABC’s network news division. Will just keep reminding you of that,” Stephen L. Miller added.

The View falls under ABC's network news division. Will just keep reminding you of that. https://t.co/O4IfaVQmqf

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 19, 2024