Whoopi Goldberg intervenes as Joy Behar nearly says Trump should board Elon Musk's rocket after explosion
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK: Joy Behar's scathing remarks on the March 13 episode of 'The View', has once again sparked a lively moment on live TV.
This time, the 80-year-old co-host may have gone a step too far with a remark about Donald Trump and rockets, only to be quickly shut down by her fellow co-host, Whoopi Goldberg before any real trouble could brew.
Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar slam Trump’s Tesla promotion
During the morning episode of 'The View,' the panel discussed Trump’s recent appearance outside the White House where he was seen promoting Elon Musk’s Tesla cars.
Trump, alongside Musk, live streamed the event on X (formerly Twitter), even hinting at a possible purchase of the electric car company.
'The View' hosts did not hold back in their criticism, with Whoopi Goldberg pointing out the irony of Trump’s attention to Tesla while ignoring pressing issues like Social Security and government employee cuts.
“If he cared about the economy, he would be doing these Tesla commercials for the Social Security folks,” Goldberg said.
“They’d be doing it for the people who work for the government. He would be helping us build the economy. That’s not what this is about.”
Behar, never one to shy away from stirring the pot, added her comment to the conversation.
“I would have preferred that instead of buying a Tesla he would have bought a rocket from Elon,” she quipped, referring to Musk’s ventures into space travel.
The remark, while perhaps meant in jest, was met with an uncomfortable chuckle from the audience, as Behar seemed to be on the verge of saying something more provocative.
As Behar started to finish her sentence, her words took a darker turn, “And go into—” she began, clearly thinking of a destination for the rocket.
The word “space” seemed ready to roll off her tongue, but before she could finish the thought, Goldberg cut her off, her warning clear, saying, “Don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it,” she said, shaking her head in concern.
SpaceX’s latest Mars rocket failure was second in a row
The timing could not have been more crucial. Only days earlier, Elon Musk’s SpaceX made headlines after a Starship rocket exploded minutes after launch on March 6 after lifting off from Texas, prompting the FAA to halt air traffic in parts of Florida.
This is the second straight failure this year for Elon Musk's Mars rocket program, as per Reuters.
The incident, which occurred near South Florida and the Bahamas, was the second such explosion this year, following a similar failure in January.
Several videos on social media showed fiery debris streaking through the dusk skies near south Florida and the Bahamas after Starship broke up in space shortly after it began to spin uncontrollably with its engines cut off, a SpaceX live stream of the mission showed.
The failure of the eighth Starship test comes just over a month after the seventh also ended in an explosive failure.
The back-to-back mishaps occurred in early mission phases that SpaceX has easily surpassed previously, a setback for a program Musk had sought to speed up this year.
Today was a minor setback.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2025
Progress is measured by time. The next ship will be ready in 4 to 6 weeks.
The 403-foot (123-meter) rocket system is central to Musk's plan to send humans to Mars as soon as the turn of the decade.
Musk called the explosion of March 6 "a minor setback" on March 7.
"Progress is measured by time. The next ship will be ready in 4 to 6 weeks," Musk said on X, responding to another user on his social media platform.
