Donald Trump delivered the first joint address of his second administration to Congress on Tuesday night, and according to “The View” host Joy Behar, there was one moment in particular that “stopped my heart.”
Discussing the speech on Wednesday morning, moderator Whoopi Goldberg teed up the segment by first mourning congress.
“Before we get into to the Democratic response, I just want to say I really miss Congress,” she said. “Remember them? They used to make the decisions and make the laws, and now we have nothing but executive orders!”
Behar readily agreed, saying “we don’t have a separation of powers anymore.” For her, the proof came in an exchange between Trump and the Supreme Court justices that were in attendance.
“There was a moment there that really stopped my heart, and that was when Trump shook hands with the members of the Supreme Court who were there, and those were Kavanaugh, Kagan, Barrett, and Justice Roberts,” she recalled.
“He said to Justice Roberts, ‘Thank you again. Thank you again. Won’t forget it.’ Now, what do you think he was referring to?” Behar continued.
“I thought he helped him get into the men’s room?” Whoopi joked back.
Speaking seriously though, Behar was referring to “the immunity” that Trump was given by the court he packed, “so that he would not be liable for the January 6 insurrection.”
Host Sunny Hostin agreed that Trump does have “a significant amount of immunity from this court,” as Behar continued on.
“To say thank you to the Chief Justice, and for his personal victory, shows you there are no separations of powers anymore,” she said. “The Congress is in the bag. Supreme Court is in the bag. I’m thinking that’s what he was thinking, anyway.”
You can watch the full discussion from “The View” in the video above.
