He doesn’t mean it literally,” said Joy Behar while her fellow cohosts struggled to stop themselves from laughing.

Pope Francis was a vocal critic of the Trump administrations’ mass deportations, and following his death, many online joked that it was his meeting with Vance that killed him. The official cause of death was a cerebral stroke, that sent the pope into a coma and heart failure.

Whoopi Goldberg slumped over in her chair on 'The View' after Bowen Yang called J.D. Vance 'a pope killer' live on the air: 'Somebody had to say it!'