Joy Behar let slip that The View is taking a hiatus just days after Donald Trump called for its cancelation.
Behar, 82, dropped the news on Thursday’s show, saying: ‘Before we go on hiatus, we only have one more show after this.’
‘I’m allowed to say that, right?’ she said to someone off camera in a tone that came off as conspiratorial.
‘Too late now,’ Alyssa Farah Griffin joked, as Behar and the others looked up for guidance..
‘It doesn’t really matter,’ a voice off-screen said. The audience laughed in response.
A source claimed the announced hiatus was part of the show’s annual summer break.
The View, meanwhile, typically takes a summer hiatus once-a-year, in August. The women just returned from their Fourth of July break a few weeks ago.
Behar made the admission which describing recent unrest from Republicans regarding the ‘Epstein Files.’
Joy Behar let slip that The View is taking a hiatus just days after Donald Trump called for its cancelation.
Behar, 82, dropped the news on Thursday’s show, saying: ‘Before we go on hiatus, we only have one more show after this.’ ‘I’m allowed to say that, right?’ she asked someone off camera
She went on launch an attack on Donald Trump, saying ‘the tide is turning’ against him since the DOJ announced they would not be releasing any more materials surrounding the case and that Epstein killed himself in 2019.
‘The tide is turning and things are changing,’ Behar said, citing the Wall Street Journal’s decision to publish a story about Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein earlier this week.
‘I mean, the ultimate irony would be that Rupert Murdoch will take him down, Fox News who created the monster will take him down,’ she said of the Journal’s owner – a notorious conservative.
Behar also brought up how Marjorie Taylor Greene’s recent declaration that she ‘does not accept’ how Trump’s team has handled the Epstein case.
Behar also touched on the Journal’s refusal to retract their after Trump filed a $10billion suit claiming it was false. The report claimed Trump wrote a ‘bawdy’ birthday card to Epstein in 2023 that included a sketch of a naked woman and his signature.
Other figures like Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk have all turned on Trump since ‘over Epstein’, Behar pointed out.
‘This goes on and on and on. The QAnon shaman is turning on him’, she laughed. ‘He’s now calling him a fraud and a piece of whatever.’
The View generally takes a summer hiatus once-a-year. The women just returned from a break a few weeks ago
She added: ‘[It’s] worth watching the news now because I want to see how this all plays out.’
The conversation went on from there, focusing on the fissure surfacing in the Republican Party.
Trump recently called for the show’s cancelation for liberal bias, despite it being an opinion program.
Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show on CBS was canceled last week – a move some have said was designed to appease Trump. Others – including the Tiffany Network itself – have claimed the cancelation was due to financial reasons.
A piece from Puck pegged Colbert’s show as a money pit that’s been losing $40 million a year, due to declining ad revenue
There’s no suggestion the hiatus announced by Behar is linked to that or anything of the sort, with the panel going about their discussion as normal after she let the news slip.
Daily Mail has contacted ABC News for comment.
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Joy Behar says The View is going on HIATUS after Trump called for its cancellation