{"id":55938,"date":"2025-08-09T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/55938\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:20:08","slug":"rosie-odonnell-spots-the-dangerous-reason-behind-trump-white-house-attacking-the-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/55938\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosie O’Donnell Spots The ‘Dangerous’ Reason Behind Trump White House Attacking The View"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rosie O\u2019Donnell<\/a> on Wednesday opened up about her concerns that ABC could cancel The View<\/a>, a show she co-hosted for several years, in an effort to kiss up to President Donald Trump<\/a> and his Federal Communications Commission.<\/a><\/p>\n

In a TikTok post<\/a>, O\u2019Donnell claimed she read that the network was reviewing the show for \u201cliberal bias,\u201d a seemingly unfounded claim that arrives just weeks after the White House ominously warned The View could be \u201cthe next to be pulled off air\u201d due to host Joy Behar\u2019s recent Trump criticism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause it\u2019s not enough to run the country into the ground, you have to control what people SEE, what they HEAR, what they think,\u201d O\u2019Donnell wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd The View? Well, that\u2019s a little too much woman, a little too much truth \u2014 a little too much Joy Behar saying, \u2018I don\u2019t think the insurrection was a tourist visit, Karen.\u2019 Apparently, the truth is dangerous now.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Donnell\u2019s comments arrive some two months after a report by The Daily Beast<\/a> detailed how Disney and ABC News heads told the women of The View to dial down their political takes<\/a>, a request the panel wasn\u2019t cool with. <\/p>\n

ABC executives have previously pressured hosts over their Trump talk, with late night host Jimmy Kimmel revealing in 2022<\/a> that the network\u2019s top bosses eventually backed away after they initially asked him to tone down his criticism.<\/p>\n

Last month, O\u2019Donnell \u2014 whose online presence has recently infuriated Trump, leading him to threaten to revoke her US.citizenship<\/a> \u2014 ripped CBS for giving in to the president\u2019s \u201cblackmail\u201d with its shock Late Show cancellation.<\/p>\n

At the time, she questioned how long other media figures outside Stephen Colbert have \u201cagainst this horrific administration<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

While CBS claimed the Late Show cancellation was \u201cpurely a financial decision\u201d (subsequent<\/a> reports<\/a> indicated that the show was facing financial challenges), critics have speculated that the network made the move for political reasons<\/a> so parent company Paramount Global could get Trump-favouring FCC chair Brendan Carr\u2019s approval on a multibillion-dollar merger deal.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Donnell, in her TikTok post, swiftly dismissed critics who characterise The View as \u201csome radical leftist threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to think the First Amendment meant something. I used think you couldn\u2019t just erase a voice because it made you uncomfortable. But that\u2019s where we are,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t want balance. They want obedience. And they will shut down anything that reminds people of what freedom sounds like.\u201d<\/p>\n