“She thought the cameras protected her. They didn’t.” FCC chair breaks silence on The View SCANDAL – Joy Behar’s on-air meltdown sparks WARNING from top official as calls grow to investigate network for turning daytime TV into a ‘partisan circus’

A storm is building over at ABC, and it has everything to do with what Joy Behar said—and how far she went. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has spoken up with chilling clarity, calling out what he describes as a dangerous media imbalance. With The View under fire for crossing the line, the message is clear: consequences are coming. Behind the scenes, execs are reportedly scrambling while hosts brace for what could be a long-overdue reckoning. Is this the moment that finally bursts The View’s protected bubble?

Uncover the shocking details behind the FCC’s statement and what it could mean for the future of the show.

FCC chair Brendan Carr talked “consequences” for The View after Joy Behar criticized Donald Trump.
EW previously received an exclusive statement from the White House criticizing Behar.
Carr said legacy media will “run into issues like [Stephen] Colbert” if they don’t check their bias.

The impact of Joy Behar’s assertion that Donald Trump is jealous of Barack Obama’s looks and marriage continues to reverberate through the government, as Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr has now spoken about “consequences” for the comedian and The View amid the fallout.

One day after the White House issued an exclusive statement to Entertainment Weeklyfloating the potential for The View to be “pulled off the air” after “irrelevant loser” Behar’s comments, Carr appeared Thursday morning on Fox News program America’s Newsroom to discuss the issue further with cohostBill Hemmer.

“It’s entirely possible that there’s issues over there. Stepping back, this broader dynamic, once President Trump has exposed these media gatekeepers and smashed this facade, there’s a lot of consequences,” Carr speculated. “I think the consequences of that aren’t quite finished.”

He then alluded to legal expert Sunny Hostin’s multiple legal notes on The View, that she often issued during episodes that saw the cohosts reacting to coverage of Trump’s hush-money trial that ultimately ended with the president being convicted on 34 counts in May 2024.

Carr added that America needs “a course-correction” in terms of media coverage of the presidential administration.

“It’s time for America’s legacy broadcasters to return to promoting the public interest,” he said, speculating that Skydance — which made headlines recently for its impending merger with Paramount — would fervently “root out bias” that would “return to unbiased, trustworthy journalism” in mainstream media.

“We’re not where we need to go. I think this legacy media really needs to reorient, or they’re going to continue to run into issues like [Stephen] Colbert, where it just doesn’t make economic sense to run a partisan circus,” Carr finished.

The FCC chair’s statements clearly reference Paramount subsidiary CBS’ announcement last week that the Trump-critical Late Night With Stephen Colbert would end in May 2026, which led many (including Sen. Elizabeth Warren) to speculate that the move was made to sweeten the FCC’s interest in approving the Skydance-Paramount merge.

EW has reached out to representatives for The View, Carr, and the White House for comment.

Behar’s initial response came after Trump’s shocking, widely disputed allegation Tuesday that Obama “was trying to lead a coup” against the United States government, which the former president called “bizarre and ridiculous” in a rare reaction statement.

The 82-year-old comedian said on the talk show, “The thing about him is he’s so jealous of Obama, because Obama is everything that he is not: Trim, smart, handsome, happily married, and can sing Al Green’s song ‘Let’s Stay Together’ better than Al Green. And Trump cannot stand it. It’s driving him crazy.”

The White House also took aim Thursday morning at Paramount+ animated comedy South Park‘s season 27 premiere, which depicted Trump disrobing and getting into bed in an attempt to seduce Satan.

“The left’s hypocrisy truly has no end — for years they have come after South Park for what they labeled as ‘offense’ content, but suddenly they are praising the show,” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told EW via email, adding that “just like the creators of South Park, the left has no authentic or original content” to air.

In addition to Behar, Hostin, and Whoopi Goldberg, who often speak liberal-leaning perspectives at the Hot Topics table, The View also includes two Republican cohosts in Ana Navarro and Trump’s former White House communications staffer, Alyssa Farah Griffin, who worked under Trump’s first presidential administration before resigning and subsequently speaking out against him.