Joy Behar invited President Donald Trump back onto “The View” even as she claimed he seems ill and “not long for this world,” drawing a blunt White House reply.
The longtime co-host made the remarks while the panel discussed Sen. Mitch McConnell and the idea of term limits, then pivoted to how the press handles presidential health. Behar argued the media is not covering President Trump the way it covered former President Joe Biden on age and fitness questions, Fox News Digital reported.
She did not stop at media criticism. She floated a return appearance for Trump and framed his condition in stark terms.
“I’d love Donald Trump to take the heat,” Behar said. “You know Trump is not long for this world. He seems ill. He does not seem like he’s well.”
A White House spokesperson answered Behar’s comments on Trump’s well-being in a statement to Fox News Digital and did not soften the 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 same statement added: “I lose braincells every single time I have the displeasure of hearing her speak.”
That exchange captures the gap Behar herself keeps widening. She wants Trump in the guest chair. She also wants viewers to believe he is fading. Both lines landed in the same stretch of commentary.
Behar has history with Trump that predates his presidency. In a New York Magazine interview, she cast back to the years when he was a New York celebrity fixture rather than the president she now targets.
“I knew him when he was just an annoying New York figure.”
She said she attended his 1993 wedding to Marla Maples at The Plaza Hotel. Trump also made more than a dozen appearances on “The View” before he won the White House, a record that makes her fresh invitation less novel than her health diagnosis of him.
Her account of those earlier years was not affectionate. Behar claimed Trump’s humor has turned harsher and singled out mockery of handicapped people as proof.
“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.”
“He actually thought that was funny,” she added. She also called him “much more dangerous” now than in the old New York days.
The invitation talk sits beside a harder political project. Behar has said she wants her legacy to include helping remove Trump from office. She recently urged Americans to call members of Congress and press them to invoke the 25th Amendment against him, arguing he is “destroying the United States of America.”
That is not a booking producer’s pitch. That is an on-air personality pushing a constitutional removal process while floating a daytime TV sit-down and declaring the same man near the end.
Last month she pressed a related media complaint: that Trump’s health does not draw the scrutiny Biden’s did. On the November 24, 2025 episode tied to the invitation, she returned to that theme and paired it with the claim he “seems ill.”
Voters already watched years of age-and-fitness coverage aimed at Biden. Behar’s complaint is that Trump is not getting the same treatment. Her solution, offered in the same breath, is to tell a national audience he is “not long for this world.”
Behar’s lane is familiar. “The View” gives her a daily platform. Trump is the fixed target. The methods shift from guest invitation to health speculation to a call for the 25th Amendment, but the destination stays the same.
She presents herself as someone who once knew Trump socially in New York and later shared a studio with him more than a dozen times. She now describes that same man as ill, dangerous, and unfit to remain in office. The White House answer treated those remarks as the product of fixation, not diagnosis.
No medical file appeared in the exchange. No independent clinical finding was attached to her words. What aired was a television host’s assertion, an invitation, and a removal appeal aimed at Congress.
Trump’s record of prior “View” appearances makes the booking talk easy to stage. The health claim and the 25th Amendment push are heavier freight. Behar loaded all three onto the same public argument.
When a co-host sells a guest seat and a decline narrative in one package, viewers can judge which part is television and which part is politics. Behar made both plain. The White House answered in kind, and the contrast left little mystery about how seriously it took her verdict on the president’s future.
