Rosie O’Donnell predicted in a TikTok video that ABC might cancel The View to appease President Trump.
“You know what I just read today? ABC is ‘reviewing the liberal bias’ on ‘The View,’” said O’Donnell. “The show with five women speaking their own opinions. That’s the threat now. They say they’re not canceling 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.”
O’Donnell added: “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. They say they want ‘balance,’ but what they mean is silence. Silence anything that doesn’t praise the orange messiah and his golden escalator of lies.”
Disney and ABC execs reportedly told The View hosts to ease up on Trump criticism earlier this year, concerned the show has drifted too far into politics. According to the Daily Beast, Disney CEO Bob Iger and ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic met with the hosts and producer Brian Teta, urging a shift back toward the show’s original, more general focus.
Though Iger and Karamehmedovic stopped short of demanding changes, their suggestion upset the hosts. Ana Navarro reportedly pushed back, saying, “This is what our audience wants. Won’t it look bad if we suddenly stop talking about politics?”
O’Donnell claimed that a possible cancellation of The View will be about obedience to President Trump:
“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,” O’Donnell said. “First they came for journalists, then educators, then the librarians, now it’s Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg. It would be funny if it weren’t so terrifying, because when the only voices left on TV are nodding along to conspiracy theories about wind turbines causing autism, we are not in a democracy anymore. We are in a dictatorship with good lighting. What they’re really trying to do is shut us up. All of us. And we’ve seen what happens when women are silenced.”
Rosie O’Donnell fears #TheView will be canceled for not “aligning” with Trump. The White House calls her an “irrelevant loser” and says “our country is better off with Rosie living abroad.”
“The show with five women speaking their own opinions. That’s the threat now,” O’Donnell… pic.twitter.com/i8RQMevZij
— Variety (@Variety) August 7, 2025
