Joy Behar invited President Trump onto “The View” after telling New York Magazine he seems ill and is “not long for this world,” prompting a sharp White House reply.

On Nov. 24, 2025, the longtime co-host of the ABC daytime show extended the invite on air and said she would welcome him back. Fox News Digital reported that Behar framed the booking as a chance for Trump to face tough questions live.

“I’d love Donald Trump to take the heat,” she said.

"I’d love Donald Trump to take the heat,"

That pitch landed beside far darker remarks she made in a New York Magazine interview. There, Behar did not merely criticize Trump’s policies. She described him as failing in plain health terms.

“You know Trump is not long for this world. He seems ill. He does not seem like he’s well,” Behar said.

"You know Trump is not long for this world. He seems ill. He does not seem like he’s well,"

The same host who once knew Trump as a local New York personality now treats his fitness for office as a settled medical story. She also said his humor has turned meaner than it once was.

“I knew him when he was just an annoying New York figure,” Behar recalled. “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.” She added that Trump “actually thought that was funny.”

Before he was president, Trump appeared on “The View” more than a dozen times. Behar even attended his 1993 wedding to Marla Maples at The Plaza Hotel. The personal history makes the latest turn sharper: invite him on, then talk as if the clock is already running out.

Behar has made clear she wants more than a lively segment. She has said her legacy should include helping remove Trump from office. She recently urged Americans to press members of Congress to use the 25th Amendment against him, arguing he is “destroying the United States of America” and calling him “much more dangerous” now.

Last month she also claimed the press does not scrutinize Trump’s age and health the way it did former President Joe Biden. That complaint sits oddly next to her own on-air and magazine comments diagnosing him from a talk-show couch.

Viewers who follow host controversies will recognize the pattern from other Behar moments, including when Joy Behar insisted America will never elect a woman president and drew heavy pushback over how she framed candidates and identity.

The White House did not soft-pedal its answer. A spokesperson sent Fox News Digital a statement that mocked Behar’s show and her fixation on Trump.

“‘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 spokesperson said.

"'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 statement continued: “I lose braincells every single time I have the displeasure of hearing her speak.”

"I lose braincells every single time I have the displeasure of hearing her speak,"

That reply lands as more than a spat with a panelist. It answers a host who invites the president for “heat” while publicly suggesting he is too sick to last and while pushing constitutional removal talk.

ABC’s daytime flagship has faced its own institutional strain. Network decisions under outside pressure have already reshaped who gets booked, including when Disney admitted ABC pulled political guests from “The View” amid FCC scrutiny.

Related Fox coverage has pointed to Trump’s annual physical and a declaration that he is fully fit for presidential duties and in excellent health. Behar’s magazine lines run the opposite direction without medical authority behind them.

Money and morale trouble at the show have also become public. Cost pressure reached the set itself after ABC slashed wardrobe budgets and pay at “The View”, another sign the franchise is not sailing on pure confidence.

Booking rules tightened further when the network acknowledged regulators’ role. ABC admitted FCC pressure forced “The View” to stop booking political candidates, limiting the very political theater hosts still chase with presidential invites.

Behar’s pitch mixes nostalgia, score-settling, and removal talk. She wants Trump in the chair to “take the heat,” yet she has already told readers he looks unwell and is running out of time. She wants Congress pressed on the 25th Amendment while offering him a daytime platform.

That is not neutral hospitality. It is a political project dressed up as a booking.

Co-hosts have made other startling personal claims that keep the show in the headlines, including when Sunny Hostin boasted she was the holdout juror who spared a cannibal killer in a 1991 New York murder case.

Trump does not owe “The View” another turn so Behar can restage old New York grudges as a national health scare. Voters already watched years of age panic aimed one way and excused another. A host who urges the 25th Amendment while dangling a guest slot is not seeking clarity. She is seeking a stage.