Joy Behar, the mega-woke host of The View, has been forced to make an embarrassing public apology after she slandered Elon Musk live on air, by implying that he was racist. In her crazed rant, Behar made several false and misleading statements about the genius tech CEO, which she retracted as she was worried about being “sued into oblivion.”
For context, Elon Musk has become a target for left-wing hatred after he assumed control of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) this year. President Trump established DOGE through an executive order, and Musk has used this mandate to aggressively pursue waste and fraud by firing unaccountable bureaucrats and slashing lavish budgets.Such was shown on the February 27, 2025, installment of The View, where Joy Behar embarrassed herself in front of a live studio audience. The far-left ideologue began by insulting the president by saying, “I don’t think he ever really takes the responsibility of the job. He’s not really bright enough to handle the job. And Elon Musk kisses his butt and strokes his tiny ego or big ego, whatever it is, and and he doesn’t get to do.”
Building on her slanderous statements, Behar turned her attention to Musk. She added, “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, right?… He’s a naturalized. Oh, really? How did he do that? Did he come over the border illegally?”
Later in the same program, Behar was forced to recant her words for fear of legal action. She whined, “Say that now I’m getting some flak because I said that Musk was pro-apartheid. I don’t really know for sure if he was. He grew up at that time when apartheid was in full bloom, before the great Nelson Mandela fixed that he was around at that time.”
Continuing her public humiliation, she said, “But maybe he was, maybe he was, he might have been a young guy too. Might have been so, don’t be suing me. Okay, they’re allowed to say any lie they want, but we have to be really strict. That’s why this show is important.”