The View‘s Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar have been blasted by viewers for mocking Elon Musk’s four-year-old son X after his viral appearance in the Oval Office.

Musk and his son X, full name X Æ A-Xii, pronounced ex-ash-ay-twelve, appeared at the White House alongside President Trump on Tuesday. 

Speaking on Wednesday morning, Goldberg said: ‘Yesterday Elon Musk took his son X to a press conference’, Behar interrupted questioning the toddler’s name, saying; ‘X?’

Shaking her head, Goldberg added: ‘I did not name the child, and I don’t want to hear anymore mess about our names’, prompting laughter from the panel.

Attempting to get back to her point, she then said: ‘Any who, he took little X’, before Behar interrupted again saying: ‘And little Instagram’.

She had seemingly been trying to poke fun at the fact Musk’s son shares the same name as his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

Behar was quickly corrected that Musk doesn’t own Instagram, which falls under the Meta banner alongside Facebook.

Both Goldberg and Behar both go by nicknames, Goldberg being born Caryn Elaine Johnson and Behar’s first name being Josephine.

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X Musk sits on the shoulders of his father, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, as he speaks to reporters during an executive order signing in the Oval Office

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Goldberg and co-host Joy Behar poked fun at the toddler’s name on The View on Wednesday

After the clip of the show was shared online, social media users were quick to call out the two for the remarks about the youngster.

One person commented: ‘It seems they CAN sink lower. Such Trash!’.

Another user added: ‘This is BULL!!!! they are the absolute worst.’

Musk had made his appearance with his young son while marking a DOGE-centric executive order to target D.C. bureaucrats.

He also revealed that his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has found people who are ‘probably dead’ still receiving Social Security checks.

‘Reexamination of Social Security – we’ve got people in there that are 150-years-old,’ Musk lamented during an impromptu press conference as Trump signed an executive order.

The order, which wasn’t immediately released by the White House, was intended to ‘significantly’ scale back the federal workforce, pushing agencies to hire ‘no more than one employee for every four employees’ that depart, according to Semafor.

Trump didn’t even bother signing the order in front of reporters, allowing Musk to hold court with his toddler for more than 30 minutes instead, with the president asking Musk to reveal some of his findings.

X’s mother is Canadian musician Grimes, 36, whose real name is Claire Boucher. She was not pleased to learn of her son’s attendance on Tuesday.

‘He should not be in public like this,’ Grimes wrote on X, which he bought and named after their shared son.

‘I did not see this, thank u for alerting me. But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh,’ she said in response to someone bringing her son’s Oval Office appearance to her attention.

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Behar was quickly corrected that Musk doesn’t own Instagram, which falls under the Meta banner alongside Facebook

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X’s mother is Canadian musician Grimes, 36, whose real name is Claire Boucher. She was not pleased to learn of her son’s attendance on Tuesday

After the clip of the show was shared online, social media users were quick to call out the two for the remarks about the youngster

The musician also excoriated the lack of ‘decorum’ in public debate with a separate post on X that pleaded for ‘mature competent leadership.’

‘I think so much of what’s been happening over the last decade is simply that the art of diplomacy, oration, and generally competent leadership has been lost,’ Grimes wrote.

‘The purpose of politics is to find solutions when the population can’t agree – but both sides have stoked hysteria rather than provide mature competent leadership.’

She praised ‘both Republicans and Democrats’ in previous administrations for showing ‘at least the veneer of respect towards the people – that is part of leadership. and that counts for a lot with regards to maintaining stability and yes, mental health.’

Grimes claimed that she wants politicians to stop ‘taking shots’ and ‘calling names’ and get to governing.

‘When I see bills getting killed that technically everyone agreed on that would have been good – just because of infighting – one side needing to one up the other. It feels like it’s personal between them rather than abt serving the greater good,’ she said.

However, she clarified that these were ‘neutral general statements’ and was reticent to take a shot at anyone, as she is not an American citizen.

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In this file photo taken on May 7, 2018 Elon Musk and Grimes arrive for the 2018 Met Gala, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

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Musk and Grimes dated from 2018 to 2022, but in recent times the X-owner has become a prominent figure in MAGA spheres

‘I just don’t wanna be deported haha – like literally,’ she wrote in one response.

The singer revealed in November she has been in a year-long custody battle with the father of their three children, during which time she allegedly did not see one of her children for five months.

The former couple share two sons, X Æ A-Xii and Techno Mechanicus, as well as a daughter Exa Dark Sideræl together.

Musk and Grimes dated from 2018 to 2022, but in recent years, the X owner has become a prominent figure in MAGA spheres.

Musk sued for for custody of the children he shares with Grimes in Texas, where his businesses are headquartered.

Grimes then counter-sued filing a ‘petition to establish parental relationship’ in a California court, typically seen as the first step in suing for custody for unmarried parents.

She claimed that Musk was withholding access to her kids and even prevented them from seeing their terminally ill maternal grandmother.

A Travis County Clerk confirmed that the Texas dispute had been settled, but declined to give further details.

Grimes claimed the ordeal almost left her ‘bankrupt’ and unable to make new music.