Rosie O’Donnell thinks that this iconic US chat show could be next to be cancelled under Trump

Comedian Rosie O’Donnell has expressed her fear that US morning chat show The View could soon be pulled off air for not aligning politically with president Donald Trump.

Rosie O’Donnell, who co-hosted the all-women chat show briefly between 2006 and 2007 and then again in 2014, took to TikTok to share her fear that Trump sees “the truth” as “dangerous” and would therefore go after shows that do not blindly support him.

“You know what I just read today? ABC is ‘reviewing the liberal bias’ on The View,” she wrote in a lengthy statement on TikTok on Thursday (7 August). 

“The show with five women speaking their own opinions. That’s the threat now. They say they’re not cancelling it, they’re just ‘reviewing the bias,’ which is code for – we’re gonna cancel it, we’re just trying to soften you up first.”

She continued: “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.”

Last month, current The View co-host Joy Behar made Trump furious by suggesting on air that he is “so jealous” of former president Barack Obama.

Responding to Behar’s comments at the time, The White House’s spokesperson Taylor Rogers called her an “irrelevant loser” who was suffering from a “severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome”.

Rogers said it was “no surprise” that The View’s ratings “hit an all-time low” in 2024, and stated that The View might be “the next to be pulled off air”.

Last month, Trump celebrated when CBS announced that it was cancelling The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Colbert is famously not the president’s biggest fan.

In her post, O’Donnell referred to Trump’s leadership as “a dictatorship with good lighting”.

“I’ve done The View – twice. I know how hard it is to get four women to agree on lunch – let alone politics. So don’t tell me The View is some radical leftist threat.

“This isn’t about bias – This is about obedience. This is about removing any program that doesn’t align with Trumpism – soft fascism in full lashes with commercial breaks.”

In a statement to Variety, Rogers responded to O’Donnell’s remarks, and referenced Behar’s former comments about Trump again.

“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,” Rogers said.”

“Our country is better off with Rosie living abroad — and we can all hope ‘Joyless’ Behar will join her next!”

O’Donnell moved to Ireland in January of this year with her 12-year-old child Clay, following Trump’s re-election back in November.

Following Trump’s glee at Colbert’s show being cancelled, and his thinly-veiled threat aimed at The View, he also took aim at late night TV hosts and Trump critics Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel, suggesting that their shows could soon be pulled, too.

“Fallon has no talent, Kimmel has no talent. They’re next, I hear, they’re going to be gone” he said.

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