Rosie O’Donnell on Wednesday shared her concerns that ABC could cancel “The View,” a show she co-hosted for several years, in an effort to kiss up to President Donald Trump and his Federal Communications Commission.
In a TikTok post, O’Donnell said she read that the network was reviewing the show for “liberal bias.” It’s unclear where her information came from, but just weeks ago the White House ominously warned “The View” could be “the next to be pulled off air” due to host Joy Behar’s recent Trump criticism. At the time, FCC Chair Brendan Carr also expressed that “The View” might be on the administration’s radar.
“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,” O’Donnell wrote. “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.”
About two months ago, a Daily Beast report detailed how Disney and ABC News heads told the women of “The View” to dial down their political takes, a request the panel wasn’t cool with.
ABC executives have previously pressured hosts over their Trump talk, with late night host Jimmy Kimmel revealing in 2022 that the network’s top bosses eventually backed away after they initially asked him to tone down his criticism.
Last month, O’Donnell — whose online presence has recently infuriated Trump, leading him to threaten to revoke her U.S. citizenship — ripped CBS for giving in to the president’s “blackmail” with its shock “Late Show” cancellation.
At the time, she questioned how long other media figures outside Stephen Colbert have “against this horrific administration.”
While CBS claimed the “Late Show” cancellation was “purely a financial decision” (subsequent reports indicated that the show was facing financial challenges), critics have speculated that the network made the move for political reasons so parent company Paramount Global could get the Trump-favoring FCC chair’s approval on a multibillion-dollar merger deal.
O’Donnell, in her TikTok post, swiftly dismissed critics who characterize “The View” as “some radical leftist threat.”
“I used to think the First Amendment meant something. I used to think you couldn’t just erase a voice because it made you uncomfortable. But that’s where we are,” she said.
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