Joy Behar, Rep. John Lewis Agree on 'The View': Trump Wouldn't Be President If Martin Luther King Jr. Was Alive

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In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the panel of "The View" imagined a world where the civil rights leader was still alive.

In the eyes of both Joy Behar and guest Rep. John Lewis, Donald Trump wouldn't be president if MLK had anything to say about it. "I actually think Trump wouldn't have won if Martin Luther King were around, I really don't," said Behar. "He was the most charismatic person of his time and I think he would have rallied the troops to vote against Trump. So that's a real loss."

"I agree with you," added Lewis -- a civil rights leader who marched alongside MLK. "If Martin Luther King had been alive, no. Dr. King would have been able to lead us to a different place and our country would be different and our world community would be different."

Lewis famously skipped what he calls Trump's "so-called inauguration," telling the women he believed he "couldn't be at home with myself if I had to participate or be part of it." Adding, "I never felt that his election was legitimate," Lewis said he thinks King would have taken "the same position" when it came to avoiding meetings with Trump.

Sunny Hostin imagined King would 100% be behind the #TakeAKnee and Black Lives Matter movements. "I think he would perhaps not be happy with how long it's taken, this journey, this dream that he wanted to achieve in the 60s," she continued, "I don't think we've achieved yet."

"I think he would have been horrified by Charlottesville," Behar added. "I think he would have been so upset. And then when the man in the White House says there are some good people, talking about Neo Nazis. That's something that would have gotten a very strong reaction."

Despite the racial divide Americans are still seeing today, Lewis said people "have to be hopeful, you have to be optimistic."

"When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something," he added.

"I don't want to go back, I want to go forward. I want to continued be part of an effort to make America one," he went on. "Where we lay down the burden of race, the burden of hate, and create one society, one people. We must learn to live together as brothers and sisters or we will perish as fools."