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.

Bowen Yang stunned the hosts of The View when he called JD Vance a “pope killer” during his Thursday appearance on the show. The Saturday Night Live star was there to promote his new film The Wedding Banquet,