The View's Joy Behar suggests Trump is abolishing the penny because he's 'jealous' of past presidents

Joy Behar has claimed that President Donald Trump's ngo to abolish the penny is due to the fact that he's 'jealous of Lincoln.' 

During a treatment connected ABC's The View on Tuesday, Behar and her cohosts discussed Trump's determination to stop 'producing caller pennies'. 

The seasoned TV big argued that 'small and petty' Trump wanted escaped of the penny due to the fact that he's 'jealous of everyone'. 

'Trump has loyalty to nary one, look what helium did to his archetypal Vice President,' Behar said. 

'I mean it's truly - and he's jealous of everyone. Now he's getting escaped of the penny, he's adjacent jealous of Lincoln. He's truthful tiny and petty.' 

Co-host Sunny Hostin chimed successful to hold with Behar and said: 'Small and petty, absolutely.' 

Trump revealed successful a station to Truth Social that helium had asked the Treasury to halt making the coins aft helium attended the archetypal fractional of the Super Bowl connected Sunday.

'For acold excessively agelong the United States has minted pennies which virtually outgo america much than 2 cents,' helium wrote. 

'This is truthful wasteful! I person instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to halt producing caller pennies. Let's rip the discarded retired of our large nations budget, adjacent if it's a penny astatine a time.' 

According to a 2024 study from the US Mint, it outgo 3.69 cents to nutrient a penny, a process which mislaid the Treasury $179 cardinal successful 2023. 

A nickel meantime outgo astir 13.78 cents to manufacture past year. The accrued accumulation cost is partially owed to the terms of earthy materials.

The US Mint said it was the 19th twelvemonth successful a enactment that accumulation outgo had been supra look value.

However, viewers who shared their opinions connected X didn't hold with Behar, with idiosyncratic writing: 'What an idiot! It was Obama's thought initially to get escaped of the penny! She conscionable flaps her gums without doing her homework!' 

Another said: 'The thought of axing the penny has been tossed astir for years. They're a symptom successful the a** and outgo much to manufacture than they're worth.' 

'Behar and Hostin are well-practiced experts connected 'Small' and 'Petty,' 1 said. 

Trump's announcement is the latest program designed to trim the abdominous connected national spending.

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has already unveiled plans to chopped spending, including axing backing for USAID, American's overseas assistance agency. 

DOGE claimed it saved $1 cardinal by slashing backing for DEI programs aft Trump signed an enforcement bid pulling national backing for specified initiatives. 

The ambitious and ruthless approach, however, hasn't been received good and galore person criticized the administration's approach. 

A New York justice temporarily halted DOGE from accessing the US Treasury's outgo system. 

District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York granted a restraining bid against the US Treasury Department and Trump on Saturday aft 19 states, including New York, who filed the request, demanded it.

The exigency restraining bid commanded the contiguous halt of giving entree to Treasury accusation extracurricular of those employed with the department.

This includes 'all governmental appointees, peculiar authorities employees, and authorities employees elaborate from an bureau extracurricular the Treasury Department outgo record, outgo systems, oregon immoderate different information systems maintained by the Treasury Department.'

It besides ordered for immoderate Treasury accusation obtained by those extracurricular the section since January 20 - Inauguration Day - to beryllium 'immediately' destroyed, which would see Musk's DOGE workers.

Trump said helium volition instruct the caput of DOGE to analyse the Education Department for imaginable cuts next.

'I ran connected this, and the radical privation maine to find this,' Trump told Fox News big Bret Baier successful a pre-taped interrogation earlier the Super Bowl.

He became the archetypal ever president to be the sporting lawsuit which saw the Philadelphia Eagles clinch a triumph implicit the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22.