Former co-host of “The View,” Rosie O’Donnell, is claiming that ABC is preparing to cancel the show as part of an effort to appease former President Donald Trump.
In a TikTok video, O’Donnell responded to a Daily Beast report that ABC executives, including Disney CEO Bob Iger, are reviewing the show’s “liberal bias” and urging its hosts to tone it down.
“They say they’re not canceling it—they’re just ‘reviewing the bias,’” O’Donnell said. “Which is code for—we’re going to cancel it, we’re just trying to soften you up first.”
O’Donnell dubbed Trump the “orange messiah” and accused the network of targeting dissenting viewpoints. “They say they want ‘balance.’ But what they mean is silence. This isn’t about bias—it’s about obedience,” she said, adding that any program out of step with “Trumpism” is at risk.
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Referencing a poem about the Holocaust, she warned, “First they came for the journalists. Then the educators. Then the librarians. Now it’s Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg.”
She also described the current political climate as “a dictatorship with good lighting.” O’Donnell fled the country to Ireland when Trump was elected.
The former View co-host urged women to speak out rather than retreat. “The most dangerous sound in the world is a woman who knows what she’s talking about—and refuses to stop,” she said.
ABC and The View declined to comment when contacted by Fox News Digital.
Trump spokesperson Taylor Rogers dismissed O’Donnell’s comments, calling her “an irrelevant loser with too much time on her hands.”
Rogers also criticized The View’s ratings, suggesting the show is already on the brink of cancellation.
The controversy follows CBS’ cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last month, which came after the network settled a lawsuit with Trump over a 60 Minutes interview edit involving Vice President Kamala Harris. The move fueled speculation that networks are scaling back left-leaning programming.
O’Donnell has a long history of criticizing Trump, most of it comprising baseless claims.
The former Hollywood actress and comedian said her decades-long feud with Donald Trump reached new heights after the president threatened to revoke her U.S. citizenship following her move to Ireland.
“He still uses me as a punching bag and a way to sort of rile his base,” O’Donnell said in mid-July. “And I’m very proud to be opposed to every single thing he says and does and represents. I think he’s a racist, and he’s misogynistic, and he’s sexist, and he is a danger to women and children all over the world.”
Trump then posted on Truth Social that O’Donnell is “a Threat to Humanity” and that he is “giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship.” He added, “She should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
O’Donnell fired back on social media, calling Trump “a criminal con man sexual abusing liar” and “a dangerous old soulless man with dementia who lacks empathy, compassion and basic humanity.”
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson then dismissed O’Donnell’s comments as “unhinged rants” and “a symptom of late-stage TDS.”
“Thank goodness she’s no longer in the United States,” Jackson told Fox News Digital.
The rivalry dates back to 2006, when O’Donnell criticized Trump on The View over his handling of a Miss USA scandal. Since then, they have traded insults over engagements, health scares, politics, and the 2016 and 2024 elections.
O’Donnell confirmed in March that she left the U.S. for Ireland after Trump’s 2024 win, citing safety and equal rights concerns for her family.
“When it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back,” she said, calling the political climate “heartbreaking.”
Trump has continued to needle her, even joking during a White House meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, “Do you know you have Rosie O’Donnell? You’re better off not knowing.”
