One of the hot topics on The View Monday was the image President Donald Trump depicted as Jesus Christ.
Trump posted the image on Truth Social Sunday night; the post was taken down Monday morning.
“I can’t even look at it,” Whoopi Goldberg said as the image was displayed on a studio screen. “I’m just so — there’s no answer to the question I’m supposed to ask, but what are your thoughts?”
“Twenty-fifth Amendment,” said co-host Sunny Hostin as the audience cheered.
Hostin was referring to the constitutional provision for renoving a president from office if they can’t uphold the duties.
“I think our founding fathers did a lot of things right and the 25th Amendment is there for a reason,” Hostin said, adding, “No one that holds that office — which is arguably the most powerful office in the world — does things like that if — does things like that. You know, the pope is — answers to the —”
Goldberg interrupted, asking, “Can you take that down, please?”
Goldberg was asking the producer remove the Trump image from the screen.
Alyssa Farah Griffin said, “In the Christian faith, this is considering blasphemy, elevating yourself to the level of Christ.”
In the end, Goldberg insisted, “Listen, it is — this is not surprising. He is who he is.”
“This is not a shock, shouldn’t be shocking to anybody. He has said and done things that make your jaw drop. You know who he is. I know — let’s not kid each other. We know who he is, we know what he stands for, and we know what he believes you all believe,” Goldberg said. “He believes that you don’t care, that you’re not paying attention, and that what he’s doing is fine.”
“And I believe that during the midterms, a big old surprise is going to happen. Not for anybody else but him. Because America is not the America he thinks it is,” she continued. “We’re just not that — we’re not going to let this go on as long as it went on with Viktor Orban. People are starting to say, ‘You know what? Now we remember what this was like. We don’t know — we don’t want this. We don’t like this.’”
“We’ve never experienced this before as a country. We’ve never had this kind of groove. So we’re going through it and we are one of the few countries that can change because we have elections. We can make the changes we need to see. It’s in our hands now.”
