Joy Behar invited President Trump onto “The View” after saying he seems ill and is “not long for this world,” drawing a fierce White House response.
On Nov. 24, 2025, while the panel talked about Sen. Mitch McConnell and term limits, Behar floated a return appearance for President Donald Trump on the ABC daytime show. She also argued the press is not covering Trump’s health the way it covered former President Joe Biden’s. Fox News Digital reported the invitation and the White House reply that followed.
The same co-host who wants Trump back in the hot seat has been telling readers he looks finished. In a New York Magazine interview, Behar went further than a standard media critique.
She said she would “love Donald Trump to take the heat.” Then she diagnosed him from afar.
"You know Trump is not long for this world. He seems ill. He does not seem like he’s well,"
Behar told the magazine.
That is not a one-off jab. Behar has urged Americans to press members of Congress to invoke the 25th Amendment against Trump, the constitutional process that can remove a president who cannot discharge the duties of the office. She has framed that push as part of her legacy: helping get him out of power because, in her view, he is “destroying the United States of America.”
So the pitch is clear enough. Bring the president onto a friendly daytime stage, put him under lights, and treat his fitness as an open question the press somehow forgot to ask, while she has already called for a constitutional off-ramp.
Trump is no stranger to the program. He made more than a dozen appearances on “The View” before he was president. Behar has her own long history with him too. She attended his 1993 wedding to Marla Maples at The Plaza Hotel, and she has cast herself as someone who knew him when he was still “just an annoying New York figure.”
In the magazine interview she added color about that earlier chapter.
"Back then, he had a sense of humor that was not as bizarre as it is now. Now his sense of humor is making fun of handicapped people."
She claimed of one old exchange, “He actually thought that was funny,” and she also recalled Trump saying he would date his daughter Ivanka if they were not related, Behar’s telling of a past remark, not a fresh presidential quote.
Viewers who follow the show already know the co-hosts create steady headlines of their own, from Behar’s sidelining after a backstage shoulder injury to other on-air moments that keep the franchise in the news.
A White House spokesperson did not treat the invitation as a goodwill gesture. In a statement to Fox News Digital, the spokesperson unloaded on Behar’s credibility and tone.
"‘Joyless’ Behar is an extremely unlikeable, talentless hack with a poorly rated TV show who clearly suffers from a severe and incurable disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome,"
the spokesperson said, adding:
"I lose braincells every single time I have the displeasure of hearing her speak,"
The response framed her running commentary as obsession, not medical insight. It also refused the premise that Trump’s fitness belongs in the same media blender that defined the late Biden years.
Behar’s “last month” line, that the media will not scrutinize Trump’s health the way it scrutinized Biden’s, sits next to a different public record the network’s related coverage has flagged: Trump has been described as “fully fit” for presidential duties after an annual physical that showed “excellent health.” Behar’s show segment still cast the coverage gap as the scandal.
That double standard is the heart of the fight. For years, mainstream panels treated every Biden freeze, whisper, or shortened schedule as a national emergency. The same circuit now treats skepticism about Trump’s stamina as either cruel or beside the point, until a co-host needs a viral clip. Behar wants the heat on Trump in studio and the 25th Amendment in the wings. Those goals do not cancel each other; they reinforce each other.
Other “View” storylines keep the same orbit of celebrity friction and temporary exits, including coverage of Whoopi Goldberg stepping away to film a Netflix movie while the program’s drama trailed her out the door.
Behar’s personal timeline with Trump makes the latest round harder to sell as detached civic worry. She was at the Plaza wedding. She shared airtime with him repeatedly when he was still a New York brand, not a two-time president. She now says the man she knew is physically fading and politically intolerable.
She is entitled to her opinion. She is not entitled to revise how the press handled Biden’s decline, or to cast a daytime booking as neutral accountability while she shops constitutional removal. The invitation is content. The health talk is content. The 25th Amendment push is politics with a smile.
Even lesser “View” dust-ups show how fast the show turns private friction into public spectacle, whether it is Behar’s sit-out after dislocating her shoulder backstage or another co-host’s celebrity call log.
Sunny Hostin’s own side dramas, including the episode in which Cynthia Erivo phoned her after blunt Cornell fraternity remarks, only underline the brand: strong opinions, thin distance, maximum airtime.
Behar also made news for planting a kiss on married actor Anson Mount during a live broadcast, another reminder that the program rarely leaves a quiet week alone.
None of that biography turns a president’s medical file into a talk-show prop. If Behar believes Trump is “not long for this world,” she can say so. If she wants him questioned on live television, she can ask. What she cannot do is pretend the press corps spent the Biden era in a quiet library, or that her sudden concern for equal scrutiny is anything but selective.
Voters already watched one White House age crisis play out in slow motion with soft focus and late admissions. They do not need a daytime panel to re-litigate fitness with magazine adjectives and a booking tease.
Invite him or don’t. The country can tell the difference between an interview and a wish for the exit.
