Overview

• White House assistant press secretary Taylor Rogers emailed Entertainment Weekly to label Joy Behar an “irrelevant loser” and warn that The View could be “the next to be pulled off air.”
• On Wednesday’s episode, Behar quipped that President Trump is “so jealous of Obama” because he is “trim, smart, handsome” and “happily married,” referencing his recent treason and coup allegations.
• An ABC spokesperson countered that The View is up in total viewers and women 18-49, marking its most-watched summer in four years and its fifth straight season as the top-rated network daytime talk show and news program.
• Obama spokesman Patrick Rodenbush dismissed Trump’s coup and treason accusations as “ridiculous” and a “weak attempt at distraction.”
• The controversy coincides with the abrupt cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show following CBS parent Paramount Global’s pending sale to Skydance Media, which is awaiting Federal Communications Commission approval.