The View has become ground zero for left-wing rage since President Trump returned to office.
One host lost control during a recent meltdown.
And Joy Behar made one accusation about Republicans that could get another conservative killed.
Behar claims Republicans want unsafe skies and no healthcare
The government shutdown stretched into its 37th day and The View co-host Joy Behar needed the situation explained to her like she was five years old.
Despite participating in conversations about the shutdown multiple times per week since before it even began, Behar apparently couldn't grasp what was happening.
"So, let's reiterate for a second because I'm not clear what's going on. For me. So, there's a shutdown because the Republicans don't want to give extended Obamacare, right?" Behar asked her co-hosts.
What followed was a heavily biased explanation that conveniently ignored key facts about the temporary nature of the subsidies in question.
The enhanced Obamacare subsidies were created as emergency pandemic relief under the American Rescue Plan Act in 2021 and extended through 2025 by the Inflation Reduction Act.¹
These were always meant to be temporary measures, not permanent entitlements.
The subsidies expanded eligibility to people earning over 400% of the federal poverty level and capped benchmark plan costs at 8.5% of household income.²
Behar's confusion was remarkable given that marketplace enrollment surged from 12 million to 24 million enrollees specifically because of these temporary COVID-era subsidies.³
Behar makes dangerous accusation designed to incite violence
But Behar wasn't interested in understanding the policy details.
She wanted to make Republicans the villains.
And Democrats desperately needed someone to shift the blame as their shutdown strategy collapsed.
Here's what The View won't tell you: NBC's own polling showed 52% of Americans blamed Republicans for the shutdown.⁹
But that number was starting to crack as Thanksgiving approached and airline chaos mounted.
Democrats know they're losing the messaging war when middle America can't visit grandma for the holidays because air traffic controllers aren't getting paid.
So The View deployed Behar to do what she does best – make Republicans the monsters in a crisis Democrats created by refusing to pass a clean funding bill.
"Because of all that, people's safe in the air is now compromised," Behar declared without evidence.⁴
The inciting rhetoric continued as Behar framed the debate in stark life-or-death terms.
"The Democrats want you to have safety in the air AND your healthcare, and the other side does not want you to have your healthcare," Behar stated.⁴
Behar's accusation isn't policy disagreement.
It's a calculated smear with zero basis in reality.
Republicans opposing temporary pandemic subsidies doesn't mean they "don't want you to have your healthcare."
That's like saying someone who won't co-sign your car loan wants you to be homeless.
The leap from fiscal restraint to actively wanting Americans to suffer is propaganda designed to demonize half the country.
And here's what makes it dangerous: Joy Behar knows she's lying.
She's not confused about policy details despite needing them explained like she's five.
She's creating a narrative where Republicans become monsters who deliberately harm Americans.
That kind of dehumanization has consequences.
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on September 10, 2025, by a gunman who'd grown increasingly political and hostile toward conservative figures.
Tyler Robinson told his roommate he killed Kirk because he'd "had enough of his hatred."¹³
When prominent media figures spend years painting conservatives as people who actively want to hurt Americans, they normalize the idea that stopping them isn't murder – it's heroism.
The View didn't learn anything from Kirk's death.
Three months later, Behar's back on TV claiming Republicans want compromised air safety and no healthcare for Americans.
Same playbook. Same dehumanization. Same potential for tragedy.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced plans to reduce flights by 10% at 40 major airports as air traffic controllers and TSA agents work without pay.⁵
Democrats could end this by passing a clean funding bill without policy riders.
They are playing chicken with airline safety.
But only one side has Joy Behar telling 65 million viewers that Republicans actively want Americans in danger.
Behar's track record tells the story
January 2025: Behar claimed Trump's election was "not normal" and suggested irregularities in the 2024 vote.¹⁰
March 2025: ESPN's Stephen A. Smith destroyed her claim that Trump had no mandate despite winning all seven swing states and the popular vote.¹¹
July 2025: The White House warned The View could be "pulled off-air" after Behar's attacks on Trump.¹²
November 2025: Back at it, claiming Republicans don't want Americans to have healthcare.
The pattern is clear.
Behar doesn't make policy arguments.
She makes character assassinations.
Later in the same show, Behar took offense at President Trump criticizing Nancy Pelosi after news of her retirement broke.
She referenced the hammer attack on Pelosi's husband Paul to suggest Trump was being insensitive.
But The View hosts had no problem saying heinous things about Trump even after he survived an assassination attempt where he was shot in the head.
The double standard is glaring.
When co-host Sunny Hostin revealed that Pelosi responded by calling Trump "a vile creature and the worst thing on the face of the Earth," Behar and the panel celebrated the literally dehumanizing language.⁴
Democrats playing games with airline safety
What Behar conveniently ignored is that Democrats are the ones holding airline safety hostage by refusing to pass a clean funding bill.
The White House and aviation industry groups have been pleading with Democrats to end their obstruction.
Airlines for America, representing major carriers like American, Delta, Southwest, and United, issued a statement calling for Democrats to pass Republicans' clean, nonpartisan continuing resolution.⁶
Air traffic controllers are working under "immense pressure" after missing paychecks, with the FAA reporting surging callouts and strained staffing at multiple facilities.⁷
Democrats could end this today by voting for a clean funding bill.
Instead, they're demanding permanent extensions of temporary pandemic subsidies as the price for reopening the government.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates the enhanced subsidies expansion would cost taxpayers nearly $500 billion over the next decade.⁸
Conservative groups argue these subsidies have enabled rampant enrollment fraud, with estimates of over 6.4 million improper enrollees costing taxpayers $27 billion annually.⁸
Republicans want fiscal restraint on a program riddled with fraud.
Democrats want to make temporary pandemic relief permanent.
That's the actual policy disagreement.
Behar turned it into "Republicans don't want you to have your healthcare" because fear and rage drive better ratings than honest policy debates.
Why The View keeps getting away with it
Here's what The View won't tell you: Disney CEO Bob Iger and ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic held meetings earlier this year asking the hosts to tone down the political commentary.¹²
The women called the requests "silly" and kept attacking Trump and conservatives.
They're not accidentally crossing lines.
The White House warned The View in July that the show could be "pulled off-air" if Behar didn't stop the relentless attacks.¹²
ABC kept them on the air anyway because the network calculated Trump wouldn't actually follow through.
Now we're five months past that warning and Behar's claiming Republicans want to deny Americans healthcare and compromise their safety in the air.
An NBC poll showed 52% of Americans blamed Republicans for the shutdown.⁹
Democrats are winning the messaging war because they have media allies willing to turn policy debates into moral crusades where one side wants to harm Americans.
But here's the cost nobody wants to discuss: when you spend years telling audiences that conservatives actively want to hurt people, eventually someone listening will decide that stopping them justifies extreme action.
We've seen this movie before.
In 2017, James Hodgkinson opened fire on Republican congressmen practicing for a charity baseball game.
The Bernie Sanders volunteer and MSNBC viewer had contacted his congressman's office ten times complaining about Republicans' healthcare stance.¹⁴
Hodgkinson belonged to Facebook groups called "Terminate the Republican Party" and "The Road To Hell Is Paved With Republicans."¹⁵
He asked someone at the field whether Republicans or Democrats were practicing before opening fire.¹⁵
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise nearly died from his wounds.
Tyler Robinson told his roommate he killed Charlie Kirk because he'd "had enough of his hatred."¹³
Different shooters. Different years. Same pattern.
When media figures spend years painting conservatives as people who actively want to harm Americans, they create the environment where assassins like Hodgkinson and Robinson convince themselves they're stopping evil rather than committing murder.
And Joy Behar is laying the groundwork for the next one.
¹ Lisa Hagen, "What you need to know about expiring ACA subsidies," CT Mirror, November 3, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Penn LDI, "The Price of Obamacare Subsidies Loss: Millions Uninsured, Thousands at Greater Risk," September 29, 2025.
⁴ Nicholas Fondacaro, "Trying to Incite? Behar Claims GOP Wants Unsafe Skies, No Healthcare," NewsBusters, November 6, 2025.
⁵ Greg Norman et al., "Government shutdown 2025: FAA to reduce air traffic by 10% across 40 high-volume markets," Fox News, November 6, 2025.
⁶ The White House, "Airlines, Pilots Demand Action as Democrat Shutdown Pushes Air Travel to the Edge," October 2025.
⁷ Federal Aviation Administration statement, November 2025.
⁸ Cato Institute, "Six Reasons to Not Extend the Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies," October 2025.
⁹ Nicholas Fondacaro, "Trying to Incite? Behar Claims GOP Wants Unsafe Skies, No Healthcare," NewsBusters, November 6, 2025.
¹⁰ LifeZette, "The View's Joy Behar is Freaking Out Over Donald Trump's Inauguration, 'Not Normal,'" January 18, 2025.
¹¹ Daily Caller, "Stephen A. Smith Takes Blowtorch To Joy Behar's Suggestion That Trump Didn't Win 'Mandate' In 2024," March 4, 2025.
¹² Collider, "Bill Maher Drags 'The View' Hosts Following Recent Controversial Comments," August 16, 2025.
¹³ CNN, "Prosecutors seek death penalty for Charlie Kirk murder suspect. Key takeaways from the charges against Tyler Robinson," September 17, 2025.
¹⁴ CNN, "James T. Hodgkinson: Bernie Sanders supporter, strongly anti-Trump," June 15, 2017.
¹⁵ Wikipedia, "Congressional baseball shooting," accessed November 7, 2025.
