'The View' co-host Whoopi Goldberg says Elon Musk is Trump's 'actual vice president,' should give up X

"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg suggested connected Thursday that billionaire X proprietor Elon Musk is President-elect Donald Trump’s "real" vice statesmanlike pick.

Goldberg made the assertion during Thursday's occurrence of the ABC speech show, arguing that Musk has been making decisions arsenic though he’s Trump’s existent 2nd successful command. She past argued that helium should beryllium required to merchantability his social media platform. 

"Musk is the real, existent vice president. He’s making decisions. He’s doing things, truthful I think, wherefore doesn’t helium person to springiness up X with everything he’s done?"

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During Thursday's occurrence of ABC's "The View," Whoopi Goldberg argued that billionaire Elon Musk is President-elect Trump's existent vice president and that helium should beryllium required to springiness up X. (Screenshot/ABC)

The co-host’s mentation came up during a treatment connected the caller exodus of liberals from X to the caller societal media site, "Bluesky."

Fellow co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin remarked that radical moving to the caller app conscionable further entrenches the country’s division.

"So we had this, you know, this predetermination that was tense. Donald Trump won, and the close is going to enactment connected X and past the near is going to beryllium on Bluesky. How bash we effort to speech to each other?" Griffin asked.

Whoopi responded, archetypal by blaming conservatives for bullying liberals disconnected the platform.

She said, "Unfortunately, I volition person to accidental the different side, I think, has driven radical away, due to the fact that – you cognize – it’s not conscionable discourse. It’s nasty name-calling and coming aft your household and ‘I’m going to bash this to you,’ and I don’t deliberation anyone should person to instrumentality that from anybody if they don’t person to."

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President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk airs for a photograph during the UFC 309 lawsuit astatine Madison Square Garden connected Nov. 16, 2024, successful New York City. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)

She added that Republican social media users are besides fleeing X due to the fact that they mightiness person antithetic opinions than astir Republicans. "They’re moving arsenic well," she said.

Her different crushed for the exodus was Trump appointing Musk to beryllium portion of his furniture – arsenic 1 of the heads of his projected Department of Government Efficiency. 

"And I know wherefore also, because, you know, arsenic I believe, Elon Musk is the existent vice president," she told her co-hosts.

"Yes, I judge that," she continued, and floated that Vice President-elect JD Vance is conscionable an "interim" pick.

"Because I deliberation that Matt – not Matt – JD Vance. He’s benignant of an interim."

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After asking wherefore Musk shouldn’t person to ditch X portion besides having governmental powerfulness successful Trump’s cabinet, co-host Sunny Hostin replied, "He should."

"I cognize we got to go," Goldberg said arsenic the amusement approached commercialized break. "But I’m musing. I’m musing. We person to go."