'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 on Thursday that billionaire X owner Elon Musk is President-elect Donald Trump's "real" vice presidential pick.

"Musk is the real, actual vice president. He's making decisions. He's doing things, so I think, why doesn't he have to give up X with everything he's done?"

The co-host's theory came up during a discussion on the recent exodus of liberals from X to the new social media site, "Bluesky."

Fellow co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin remarked that people moving to the new app just further entrenches the country's division.

Whoopi responded, first by blaming conservatives for bullying liberals off the platform.

She said, "Unfortunately, I will have to say the other side, I think, has driven people away, because - you know - it's not just discourse. It's nasty name-calling and coming after your family and 'I'm going to do this to you,' and I don't think anyone should have to take that from anybody if they don't have to."

"And I know why also, because, you know, as I believe, Elon Musk is the actual vice president," she told her co-hosts.

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

"Because I think that Matt - not Matt - JD Vance. He's kind of an interim."

After asking why Musk shouldn't have to ditch X while also having governmental power in Trump's cabinet, co-host Sunny Hostin replied, "He should."

"I know we got to go," Goldberg said as the show approached commercial break. "But I'm musing. I'm musing. We have to go."