The White House is once again taking aim at The View.
A spokesperson fired off a statement to Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday, July 23, suggesting the ABC daytime talk show should be “pulled off the air” after co-host Joy Behar said Trump is “jealous” of former President Barack Obama.
The statement came from White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers in response to a comment Behar made on Wednesday’s episode criticizing Trump for accusing former President Barack Obama of “treason” and “trying to lead a coup” — with zero evidence — for backing an investigation into Russia’s alleged involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
Behar, like many other Trump critics, said he is just trying to deflect from the fallout surrounding his administration’s handling of files related to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in jail in 2019.
“The thing about [Trump] 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,” Behar said.
Her co-host Sunny Hostin added, “I agree. It’s like Obama still lives rent free in his head… it’s just the swag that Obama has that he will never have.”
Related: ‘The View’ Co-Host Whoopi Goldberg Warns Show May Be Silenced by Trump
Trump spokesperson Rogers hit back with name-calling and threats.
“Joy Behar is an irrelevant loser suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Rogers told EW, while adding a claim that The View was experiencing its “lowest ratings” in years.
The White House statement continued by saying Behar “should self-reflect on her own jealousy of President Trump’s historic popularity before her show is the next to be pulled off air.”
Perhaps Rogers doesn’t have access to TV ratings data.
For the week of July 7, 2025, the show was No. 1 in households with a 1.49 rating and 2.282 million total viewers among daytime network talk shows and news programs, according to Nielsen figures. It led Today’s Third Hour, Today with Jenna & Friends, and NBC News Daily. Season to date, The View is up 5 percent from last year in total viewers.
Rogers’ comments came a week after CBS canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
While parent company Paramount Global said the decision was financial, critics countered the late-night program is ending as Paramount tries to appease Trump by silencing left-leaning comedian Stephen Colbert because the company wants a pending sale to Skydance Media approved by the Federal Communications Commission.
For his part, former President Obama issued a rare statement through a spokesperson denouncing Trump’s “outrageous” claims about him, and essentially calling an intelligence report his administration released last week a joke.
“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one,” said spokesman Patrick Rodenbush. “These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction. Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes. These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chairman Marco Rubio.”
Behar begins discussing Trump at the 3:30 mark in the below video:
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