Rosie O’Donnell Doesn’t Think ‘The View’ Will Survive the Trump Administration
While Donald Trump is still filling news conferences with predictions that the Jimmys, Fallon and Kimmel, will soon be fired, Rosie O’Donnell believes other entertainers should be looking over their shoulders first. The expat comedian claims The View could be the next show on the chopping block.
In a lengthy TikTok caption, O’Donnell explained her thinking. “You know what I just read today? ABC is ‘reviewing the liberal bias’ on The View. THE VIEW. The show with five women speaking the own opinions. That’s the threat now.”
ABC claims it’s not going to cancel the show, but O’Donnell isn’t buying it. In her opinion, “reviewing for bias” is the network’s code for “We’re going to cancel it. We’re just going to soften you up first.”
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Trump’s problem with The View, argued O’Donnell, is that it features too many women, too much truth and too much of Joy Behar saying, “I don’t think the insurrection was a tourist visit, Karen.”
It’s quite a rant, with the comedian asserting that ABC (and, presumably, the voices in its ear) is less interested in bias than it is in control. Instead of balance, O’Donnell believes the powers-that-be are looking to “silence anything that doesn’t praise the orange messiah and his golden escalator of lies.”
One might chalk up O’Donnell’s concerns to political paranoia if the White House itself wasn’t issuing similar predictions about The View’s demise. After Behar said on a recent show that she believes Trump is jealous of former President Barack Obama, a White House spokesman issued a statement claiming, “Joy Behar is an irrelevant loser suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.” (While Trump himself didn’t issue the statement, it's clear his aides were working from his personal dictionary.)
Was the White House done?
Of course not. “It’s no surprise that ‘The View’s ratings hit an all-time low last year,” the spokesperson continued. “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.”
“First they came for the journalists,” O’Donnell wrote. “Then the educators. Then the librarians. Now it’s Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg.”
While Kimmel and even Fallon criticize Trump as often as The View, O’Donnell believes that “this isn’t just about a TV show. It’s about what happens when powerful men decide they’ve heard enough from women.”
Speculation about The View ending should be a rallying cry for all women, O’Donnell wrote. Forget about quieting down and shrinking into the shadows to make others feel more comfortable.
Instead, “we speak louder. We take up space. We stand together and say what is true, even when it shakes the walls,” she wrote. “Because the most dangerous sound in the world is a woman who knows what she’s talking about — and refuses to stop.”
