‘The View’ Skips Covering Trump-Musk Feud, Leaving Viewers Completely Confused
On Friday’s (June 6) episode of The View, fans were left completely confused when the hottest topic of the day was completely ignored by the cohosts.
Viewers who’ve become familiar with the show’s usual coverage approach — leading with discussions of the biggest political news of the day — were likely expecting cohosts Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin to dig into the mudslinging that’s been going on between Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
After all, they’d certainly covered the first part of it (when Musk expressed his dismay over the so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill”) earlier in the week. However, instead of revealing the latest development in the messy public spat between the president of the United States and the world’s richest man — chiefly, that the latter accused the former of being part of the so-called “Epstein files,” and the other reportedly mulled deporting him in retaliation, and Musk considered decommissioning the Dragon spacecraft at SpaceX, too — they talked about subjects like Malia Obama deciding not to use her last name in professional pursuits and the friendship issues between Leah Remini and Jennifer Lopez.
The subject of Trump did briefly come up when guest Mark Hamill, promoting The Life of Chuck, came on and talked about his X/Twitter responses to Trump, saying, “You gotta do it with humor. I think I don’t get angry, and I don’t drop F-bombs. I mean, I know I have a lot of kids who follow me, but I think to be have fun with it, yeah? Mock him. That’s the kryptonite to malignant narcissist.”
However, the lack of discussion on the latest Trump-Musk falling out left many fans confused and disappointed, and they shared those sentiments in response to a video of the panel’s first “Hot Topic” discussion on the show’s social media.
“Where are the current events? I am so disappointed. Is the show pretaped last year. Love y’all, but you missed the mark. Not a word about the break up of the bromance,” one fan wrote. “Cannot believe you’re not talking about what everyone else is talking about today!” wrote another. “This must be a taped show. I’m so disappointed. I was looking forward to it,” said a third.
It’s worth noting that this sudden change of tone and coverage comes after recent reports that the show’s cohosts were given a warning by the Disney brass that they needed to tone down any anti-Trump sentiments. However, the immediate aftermath of that was not apparent, as the cohosts returned immediately after the rumored meeting with a scathing rebuke of Trump.
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I’m so disappointed with The View today. The way they completely ignored the Trump vs Musk news was terrible. I won’t continue to watch if this is something that continues. Please tell ABC not to give in to Trump pressuring the fee press.
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I turned the View off today because they didn’t cover the Elon/Trump war. I certainly hope it was filmed yesterday and not purposely not covered. The last name story was kind of garbage.
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Very disappointing. Looks like the View caved to pressure. I might be done with them.
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Biggest story and they have fluff pieces instead. All night hosts covered it thoroughly last night with a lot of humour.
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I was looking forward to watching the View and laughing with them about the breakup. We recorded it and ended fast forwarded through it.
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I am an avid View watcher & look forward to it every day especially the first
half hour when the hosts are discussing politics. Today, I was so bored that
I picked up something to read while it was on. I've never done this before &
I'm a big Joy Behar fan, so I love Fridays. If the hosts are no longer going to
discuss political news, the show, I fear, will not last. Please, if this is a capitu-
lation to the current administration out of fear, we are all doomed!
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it was apparent to me it was a pre-taped episode since there were no current events covered in the opening segment(s) ...
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THat could be true... it's like watching two teams you really can't stand, when they play each other. You don't know who to root for. (But you still love to see the massacre... 😉)
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What ?? The “ ladies” of the Spew missed a chance to bash on President Trump AND Elon Musk ?? Wow !! Don’t they know the Hate mongers have to be fed ?? To miss an opportunity to skip past all the Really important things going on in our country to bash on President Trump and Elon Musk to boot is inexcusable !! The “ ladies” are really slipping. But not to fear I’m sure they’re just foaming at the mouth for the next episode so that they can rant on an on to near delirium about nothing but how much they Hate Trump. Oh and of course anyone who voted for him. Yep you gotta get up pretty early in the morning to out Hate the ladies of the Spew. Kind hearted ladies that they are. They make Genghis Khan look like Gandhi !!
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