Rosie O’Donnell, who was a host on ABC’s “The View” from 2006 to 2007 and returned briefly in 2014, recently posted on TikTok that she is worried about the iconic daytime talk show being canceled amid unconfirmed rumours that ABC is reviewing “The View’s” alleged “liberal bias.” The White House put out a statement last month saying “The View” could be the “next to be pulled off the air” as Donald Trump celebrated CBS’ decision to cancel Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” and called for Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon to get axed next.
“The show with five women speaking their own opinions. That’s the threat now,” O’Donnell wrote about “The View” in the Trump era (via EW). “Because it’s not enough to run the country into the ground. You have to control what people SEE. What they HEAR. What they think. And ‘The View’? Well, that’s a little too much woman — a little too much truth — a little too much Joy Behar saying ‘I don’t think the insurrection was a tourist visit, Karen.’ Apparently, the truth is dangerous now.”
O’Donnell added “this is about removing any program that doesn’t align with Trumpism.” She regularly feuded with Trump during her own stint on “The View” and continues to do so to this day, having moved to Ireland after Trump was re-elected U.S. president last year. She called on her followers to speak up against the media being silenced.
“We do not get quieter. We do not make ourselves smaller, so they can feel more comfortable,” O’Donnell wrote. “We speak louder. We take up space. We stand together and say what is true, even when it shakes the walls. Because the most dangerous sound in the world is a woman who knows what she’s talking about — and refuses to stop.”
O’Donnell’s statement, and her decision to cite Joy Behar, clearly hit a nerve with Trump’s White House. Spokesperson Taylor Rogers railed against both women when asked for comment by Variety about O’Donnell’s TikTok post, writing: “Rosie O’Donnell and ‘Joyless’ Behar are irrelevant losers with too much time on their hands, whining about a failing talk show while everyday Americans are working hard. Our country is better off with Rosie living abroad — and we can all hope ‘Joyless’ Behar will join her next!”
Behar previously ignited outrage from The White House when she claimed on the July 23 episode of “The View” that Trump is “jealous” of former President Barack Obama. It all started when Trump alleged that Obama was “trying to lead a coup” in the past and accused Obama of “treason.”
“First of all, who tried to overthrow the government on Jan. 6. Who was that again? That was not Obama,” Behar fired back at Trump in response. “The thing about him is he’s so jealous of Obama, because Obama is everything that he is not: Trim, smart, handsome, happily married, and can sing Al Green’s song ‘Let’s Stay Together’ better than Al Green. And Trump cannot stand it. It’s driving him crazy.”
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White House spokesperson Rogers clapped back at Behar and “The View” in a statement to Variety at the time that read: “Joy Behar is an irrelevant loser suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. It’s no surprise that ‘The View’s’ ratings hit an all-time low last year. She should self-reflect on her own jealousy of President Trump’s historic popularity before her show is the next to be pulled off air.”
Behar and her fellow hosts on “The View,” such as Whoopi Goldberg, have long been critical of Trump and regularly speak out against him during the show.
From Variety US