“The View”'s Sunny Hostin calls for use of 25th Amendment after Donald Trump shares image of himself as Jesus: 'Blasphemous'
“The View”'s Sunny Hostin calls for use of 25th Amendment after Donald Trump shares image of himself as Jesus: 'Blasphemous'
Joey NolfiMon, April 13, 2026 at 4:29 PM UTC
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Whoopi Goldberg on 'The View'; Donald Trump; Sunny Hostin on 'The View'Credit: ABC; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty
The View cohosts wasted no time calling for the removal of Donald Trump on their first live episode following a week-long spring hiatus.
After the president staunchly criticized Pope Leo XIV and shared to his social media platform an AI-generated image of himself depicted as a Jesus-like figure, Sunny Hostin called for the use of the 25th amendment: "I think our founding fathers did a lot of things right, and the 25th amendment is there for a reason. No one that holds that office, which is arguably the most powerful office in the world, does things like that," Hostin said, calling the image "blasphemous."
According to the National Constitution Center, the 25th Amendment's fourth section outlines a scenario in which the vice president and other political figures may issue a "written declaration that the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office," with the vice president assuming the office in the president's place.
Though The View displayed the image on a screen behind the cohosts, Whoopi Goldberg looked off camera to the show's crew and asked in clear disgust, "Can you take that down, please?"
'The View' cohosts discuss Donald Trump's AI-generated image of himself as JesusCredit: ABC
On her first episode back at the table since going on maternity leave in mid-February, cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin — a former Trump White House staffer — also firmly pushed back against her ex-boss' online antics.
"In the Christian faith, this is considered blasphemy, depicting yourself as Christ, elevating yourself to the level of Christ," Griffin said, also noting that she's seen "die-hard" MAGA supporters urging him to take the image down.
"To declare kind of an open season on the pope, the leader of the largest faith in the United States, the most charitable faith, and one that also makes up a big portion of Trump's base, makes no sense to me," she continued. "It signals to me that he doesn't understand, I don't think he claims to be a person of faith, our faith is bigger than our politics."
She added that "God is not to be mocked," with regard to Trump's post.
At the end of the segment, Goldberg again summarized how she felt about Trump's actions, and called for the public to vote him and his supporters out of their positions in government.
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"You know who he is. Let's not kid each other. We know who he is, we know what he stands for, and we know what he believes you all believe. He believes that you don't care, that you're not paying attention, and that what he's doing is fine," Goldberg said. "And I believe that during the midterms, a big old surprise is going to happen. Not for anybody else but him, because America is not the America he thinks it is."
Goldberg told the audience she felt that "we've never experienced this before as a country," but that, despite her fears over the developments, "we're one of the few countries that can change because we have elections. We can make the changes we need to see."
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to White House representatives for comment.
Donald Trump in January 2026Credit: Shannon Stapleton-Pool/Getty
The cohosts' words came after Trump criticized Pope Leo — the first American-born pope, from Chicago — for being "weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy," per the New York Times.
Pope Leo also recently criticized his home country's involvement in the war on Iran, calling it a representation of “absurd and inhuman violence" in the reigon.
The Times noted that Pope Leo also said Monday that he had “no fear of the Trump administration, or speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do," following Trump's condemnation.
The View airs weekdays on ABC.
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