“The View” co-host Joy Behar said she would welcome President Donald Trump back on the daytime talk show, even as she questioned his health in an interview with New York Magazine. The remarks were reported Friday, October 16, 2026.
“I’d love Donald Trump to take the heat,” Behar said, according to the interview. She also said Trump “seems ill” and does not appear well, adding that she believes he is “not long for this world.” The supplied account does not provide medical evidence for that assessment.
A White House spokesperson responded to Behar’s remarks in a statement to Fox News Digital. The spokesperson attacked Behar personally and criticized her television show. The response did not address her assessment of Trump’s health with medical information.
Behar has previously raised questions about Trump’s health in public. The account says that last month she argued the media applied greater scrutiny to former President Joe Biden’s health than it does to Trump’s. It also notes that Trump was declared “fully fit” for presidential duties after an annual physical; no further details about the examination are included in the supplied material.
The two have known each other since before Trump entered politics. He appeared on “The View” more than a dozen times, according to the account, and Behar attended his 1993 wedding to Marla Maples at the Plaza Hotel in New York.
Behar said Trump’s humor had changed since the period when she knew him as a New York celebrity. She recalled that he once reacted with amusement after she compared him to Woody Allen, following Trump’s comment that he would date his daughter Ivanka if they were not related. Behar also criticized what she described as Trump’s current humor, citing jokes about people with disabilities.
The account further reports that Behar has called Trump more dangerous than he was during his first term. It says she recently urged Americans to ask members of Congress to invoke the 25th Amendment, arguing that Trump was harming the country. Those remarks, like her comments about his health, are Behar’s opinions and are not independently established by the material provided.
