‘The View’: Why Whoopi Goldberg & Joy Behar Think Trump Is ‘Scared’ of Elon Musk

For the first “Hot Topic” of the day on Wednesday’s (June 4) edition of The View, the cohosts got into the subject of Elon Musk‘s disdain for Donald Trump‘s budget package, which he calls the “Big Beautiful Bill.” In the lively chat, both Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar concluded that Trump is still scared of Musk, even after he left his role as the head of the “Department of Government Efficiency” a.k.a. “DOGE.”

Goldberg began the discussion by invoking her newly-launched nickname for Trump, “Taco D,” and saying, “The guy who was hired to cut government spending — remember Elon Musk? — yeah, well, he pulled an all-nighter on social media, tearing into the so-called ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ … He shredded it. He slammed it as an outrageous, disgusting abomination, and called out Republicans who voted for it, writing that in November next year, we’ll fire politicians who betrayed the American people.” After rolling clips of people reacting to Musk’s dissent, Goldberg said, “Well, President Taco D has yet to respond. And I do wonder why Elon thinks people are going to listen now to him, because he just spent several months destroying people’s lives.”