‘The View’ Fans Rage as Trump & King Charles Interrupt Broadcast
The View was preempted by ABC News’ special live coverage of Donald Trump‘s state visit with England’s King Charles III on Tuesday (April 28) morning, and some fans of the talk show were furious.
At the top of the 11 a.m. ET hour, when The View typically begins airing its new episodes, the network instead aired footage of Charles’ welcome to Washington, D.C., as well as Trump’s speech about the arrival of the king and the British delegation, the flyover, and other fanfare, with David Muir anchoring the coverage.
On X (formerly Twitter), several fans immediately reacted to the programming interruption.
“I’m so mad why is he interrupting the view,” wrote one viewer. “Who gives a flying fig about the King of England!!! 250 years ago we broke AWAY from this sh**!!! Why is @ABC interrupting #TheView,” wrote another.
The View was expected to return with a new episode on Tuesday, with cohosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin discussing the various current events “Hot Topics.” The guests for the day included Levar Burton, talking about his TV turn in Trivial Pursuit, as well as Brenda Song promoting the second season of Netflix’s Running Point.
For those fans were you miffed about the fact that they didn’t get to catch The View live on ABC as a result of Trump’s state visit with the United Kingdom’s monarch, there’s good news: Full episodes of The View are published without commercials on the show’s dedicated YouTube channel, typically in the early afternoon of the same day as the broadcast. That upload will not be interrupted by Trump’s speech.
This isn’t the first time a Trump speech has interrupted The View. Fans were previously annoyed last September when the show’s airing was replaced by ABC News’ coverage of Trump’s speech to the United Nations.
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I could live a thousand more years quite happily without ever seeing tRump or hearing his voice again.
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We’ll volunteer for an experimental trip to Mars. They could put you in with the other monkeys so you won’t be lonely. Surely not missed.
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then change the damn channel instead of whining abt it, cry me a river
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Bwahaha !! So the dragon ladies of the Spew and they’re fans gonna stage a No Kings Day Lol ?? Sounds like their viewers are as ignorant as the dragon ladies !! Trump didn’t do this Morons !! The Network made that decision. Wow !! Don’t go into withdrawals the dragon ladies will be back very soon spewing all they’re Hate for Trump !! Like Kimmel, Colbert, Stewart, other Leftists it’s ALL they have to offer. They’re not vaguely entertaining so they sit around and try to one up each other at bashing on Trump. Yawn.
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Who cares view should be took off air years ago just bunch of wash up people who think they got answers to everything
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"Po-tay-to, po-tah-to..."
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Antonio I gotta ask. What in the he double hockey sticks are you saying ? 😀 tow may toe Lol ?
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