TV personality Piers Morgan recently called for ABC’s “The View” to be cancelled in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory in the 2024 presidential election. Morgan criticized the show, which features commentary from a predominantly liberal panel, suggesting it has become an “irrelevant parody of itself.”
Morgan claiemd that, since Trump’s victory, the show has devolved into an airing of grievances where the co-hosts lament about what is “wrong” with America as voters decisively rejected Vice President Kamala Harris and her leftist agenda. As a result, Morgan argued “The View” no longer deserves to be aired on live television.
“I don’t like cancel culture — but given that the hosts of ‘The View’ have, by their own admission, worked so hard to cancel Donald Trump, it’s time they were canceled themselves,” Morgan stated in an op-ed published in The New York Post. “They all despise the man who is to be their president again, and that tediously myopic, one-sided act just won’t play now that he’s been given such a resounding endorsement from the American people,” he added.
Morgan asserted that the show has less to do with legitimate policy critiques instead choosing to propagate “cultural resentment” toward the Make American Great Again agenda. He described the sentiment on the show as a “partisan obsessives competing with each other over who detests Trump most.” He continued, “Because ‘The View’ has become a pointless, irrelevant parody of itself that urgently needs to be put out of its — and our — misery.”
However, ABC appears to stand behind “The View” in the face of its criticism, citing strong ratings. A spokesperson recently said, “‘The View’ is an opinion-based show featuring a diverse panel of women with different points of view — the current panel is clearly resonating with audiences given that the series just had its highest rated episode in more than a decade and hit a 4-year high in total viewers.”
The American Tribune recently reported on controversy surrounding “The View,” where co-hots Sunny Hostin was forced to read three “legal notes” within several minutes. “I have a legal note. Matt Gaetz has long denied all allegations and has not been charged with any crime. Gaetz previously dismissed allegations that he paid for sex saying that, quote, “Someone is trying to re-categorize my generosity to ex-girlfriends as something more untoward,” she said during one part of the segment.
Reading another correction shortly after, Hostin fact-checked herself on a statement about Trump’s cabinet pick for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth. “Also another legal note, Pete Hegseth’s lawyer said he paid the woman in 2023 to head off the threat of a baseless lawsuit. He has denied any wrongdoing,” Hostin read, appearing visibly frustrated while issuing the correction.
“I’m sorry everyone, I have another legal note,” Hostin announced later on. “Both Trump and Pam Bondi have denied allegations of a quid pro quo that his past donation played any role in her office’s decision to not take legal action against Trump University. When she was, of course, the Attorney General of Florida.” This prompted co-host Ana Navarro to joke, “This show is going to be just legal notes and things we’re selling. Behar chimed in, “That’s why I said we’re not calling the legal note.”
Watch the legal notes below:
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