White House slams Joy Behar over &x27;herpes&x27; comment on "The View": &x27;Extremely unlikeable, talentless hack&x27; (exclusive) Joey NolfiWed, March 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC 0 Donald Trump; Joy BeharCredit: Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty; Charles Sykes/Bravo via GettyKey Points Joy Behar joked on The View about Iran giving Donald Trump "herpes" in war negotiations. The White House responded in an exclusive statement to Entertainment Weekly. A spokesperson called Behar an "extremely unlikeable, talentless hack.
White House slams Joy Behar over 'herpes' comment on "The View": 'Extremely unlikeable, talentless hack' (exclusive)
Joey NolfiWed, March 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC
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Donald Trump; Joy BeharCredit: Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty; Charles Sykes/Bravo via GettyKey Points -
Joy Behar joked on The View about Iran giving Donald Trump "herpes" in war negotiations.
The White House responded in an exclusive statement to Entertainment Weekly.
A spokesperson called Behar an "extremely unlikeable, talentless hack."
The White House has lashed out at comedian Joy Behar, after The View panelist made an on-air joke Wednesday about Iran gifting Donald Trump with "herpes" during reported negotiations amid the ongoing war in the Middle East.
In a statement shared exclusively with Entertainment Weekly, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle referred to the 83-year-old comic and longtime View panelist as "Joyless Behar," before slamming her as "an extremely unlikeable, talentless hack with a poorly rated TV show who clearly suffers from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome."
Ingle's remark references a phrase that MAGA supporters have long used to describe left-leaning people who criticize Trump and his initiatives. While Ingle claims that The View is "poorly rated," a March 20 press release from ABC indicates that the show continues to rank "No. 1 in households and total viewers among all daytime network talk shows," including gains in the female demographic.
Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Abby Huntsman on 'The View'Credit: ABC
The spokesperson's statement continues, noting that "Operation Epic Fury" in Iran "continues to prove it is a resounding success" via destruction of "Iran's ballistic missile capabilities."
"President Trump is working tirelessly every single day to ensure the American military continues to be the greatest, most powerful fighting force in the world that will crush our enemies and defend our great nation," the statement finishes.
A representative for Behar at The View did not respond to EW's request for comment.
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While discussing the war with Iran, Behar asked conservative panelist Abby Huntsman on Wednesday's broadcast, "What have they accomplished over there? Explain to me," with regard to Trump's military actions in Iran.
Huntsman later said, "I think it's really easy to sit here and say, 'What has the military accomplished?' It's because of our military that we're able to sit here and have these conversations and do a show like this," with Behar clarifying the intent of her inquiry.
"Don't make it sound like I'm against the military. I'm not. All my uncles, my father, they all fought, so don't make it sound like that," she said. "I'm talking about this particular, as he calls it, excursion into Iran. What have they accomplished so far?"
Joy Behar on 'The View'Credit: ABC
Wednesday's White House statement is far from the first the current administration has made about The View and its panelists.
Officials have criticized View star Ana Navarro over her remarks about the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, and in January called the show's cohosts "useful idiots" after moderator Whoopi Goldberg called for Trump's removal from office.
Both the White House and the Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr additionally made statements about the show throughout 2025, with Carr telling Fox News in July that there might be "consequences" for the show over what he felt was a liberal bias.
The View airs weekdays on ABC.
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