Overview
- The View segment, which aired Thursday, answered President Trump’s talk of joining an Artemis mission with jokes about sending him to the moon and leaving him there.
- Whoopi Goldberg read NASA-style requirements and said Trump lacks a STEM master’s degree, required jet pilot hours, the 30–55 age window, and teamwork and communication skills.
- Joy Behar mocked his military deferments and suggested sending J.D. Vance and Mike Johnson to Jupiter, then joked a space helmet would ruin Trump’s hair.
- Sunny Hostin questioned Trump’s claim of being “really smart” by citing a UPenn professor who called him his “dumbest student,” while the panel praised Artemis II’s inspiring homecomings.
- After outlets sought comment, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle emailed a denunciation published by Entertainment Weekly and Us Weekly that called Goldberg and Behar “useful idiots.”