Joy Behar trashed billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk during Thursday’s broadcast of “The View,” claiming that he was a “foreign agent” and was “pro-apartheid” and asserting that he was effectively running the federal government while President Donald Trump took “a nap.”
Behar and her cohosts on the ABC News talk show have been critical of both Trump and Musk since before the inauguration — often suggesting that the latter is actually the one in charge and directing things from the sidelines — but on Thursday’s show, Behar took things a step further.
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Hateful, @JoyVBehar flaunts anti-immigrant bigotry against @ElonMusk.
She decries him because “the guy was not born in this country.”
She falsely claims that, as a child, Musk was “pro-apartheid.”
She calls him a “this foreigner, foreign agent,” and “enemy of the United States.… pic.twitter.com/fd83ZY5u6p— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 27, 2025
“Elon Musk kisses [Trump’s] butt and strokes his tiny ego, or big ego, whatever it is,” Behar began, prompting a smattering of laughter from the audience. “And he doesn’t get to do — he can take a nap while the guy, who was not born in this country, who was born under apartheid in South Africa, so has that mentality going on. He was pro-apartheid, as I understand it —”
“He is a naturalized citizen,” cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out.
“He’s a naturalized citizen,” Behar repeated. “Oh, how did he do that? Did he come over the border legally?”
Griffin said she believed he’d come to the United States on an H1B Visa, and cohost Sunny Hostin jumped in then to claim that he’d overstayed that visa, suggesting that made him an illegal immigrant.
“This is just perfectly wonderful for Trump,” Behar pivoted back to her original point. “He can take a nap and let this foreigner, foreign agent, you know, an enemy of the United States, do his job.”
Cohost Whoopi Goldberg asked whether anyone else wanted to address the topic, and there was a brief pause before Griffin suggested that maybe they should “give him a little bit of time” before labeling Musk “an enemy of the United States.”
Fox News commentator Guy Benson pushed back on Behar’s comments, saying, “When it’s illegal immigrants, they chant that we are a nation of immigrants. When it’s a naturalized citizen they don’t like, this ugly nativism rears its head.”
When it’s illegal immigrants, they chant that we are a nation of immigrants. When it’s a naturalized citizen they don’t like, this ugly nativism rears its head. https://t.co/EguyN7B2jG
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) February 27, 2025
“At some point, @ABC is going to get sued for something these morons say. This may be it,” Pradheep Shanker added.
At some point, @ABC is going to get sued for something these morons say.
This may be it. https://t.co/UJrWLlizR7
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. (@neoavatara) February 27, 2025
