Report: Disney, ABC Executives Ask ‘The View’ Hosts to Tone Down Trump Bashing

[mystery-ak]

Report: Disney, ABC Executives Ask ‘The View’ Hosts to Tone Down Trump Bashing

Paul Bois 22 May 2025

Executives with Disney and ABC News have reportedly asked The View hosts to tone down their bashing of Presdient Donald Trump and political rhetoric overall.

While The View hosts have never shied away from bashing Trump and Republicans in general, executives within the company have reportedly grown weary with the show’s over-emphasis on politics, feeling that it has strayed from its original inception as a talk show for women. According to the Daily Beast, two sources confirmed that Disney CEO Bob Iger and ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic recently held a meeting with The View hosts and executive producer Brian Teta asking them to shift the conversation away from politics.

“Karamehmedovic highlighted episodes with celebrity guests that he said were highly rated, one source said, and encouraged them to lean into such coverage moving forward,” noted the outlet.

While the Iger and Karamehmedovic did not go far to demand a change, the suggestion still upset the hosts, with Ana Navarro reportedly telling them that their audience tunes into the show for political perspectives.

“‘This is what our audience wants. Isn’t it gonna look kind of bad if we’re all of a sudden not talking about politics?’” Ana Navarro reportedly told the two executives.

Other hosts reportedly found the suggestions “silly” and vowed to “keep doing their thing.” During Disney’s Upfront presentation to advertisers last week, Navarro reportedly confronted Iger about the suggestion, per the Daily Beast:

    Navarro thanked Iger for allowing the hosts to continue doing their jobs in a politically turbulent environment, the sources said. Iger confirmed he supported the show—but he also reaffirmed that the show needed to tone down its political rhetoric, the sources said.

    Another source familiar with the matter said ABC will “constantly have conversations with talent based on viewer feedback, and this instance was no different,” suggesting the show’s viewers have indicated that they want the show to be less political.

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https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/05/22/report-disney-abc-executives-ask-the-view-hosts-to-tone-down-trump-bashing/

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ABC’s ‘The View’ Is On Thin Ice With Disney Executives

Published 10 hours ago

on May 22, 2025

By Cullen McCue

Disney CEO Bob Iger and other senior executives have reportedly asked the co-hosts of ABC’s “The View” to tone down their inflammatory political rhetoric.

According to a report from The Daily Beast citing multiple sources within Disney, both Iger and ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic recently suggested that the daytime talk show hosts should be less hostile when it comes to political issues. The recommendation appears to have been discarded, however.

The long-running show’s current lineup features Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar, all three of whom have a history of making inflammatory statements about President Trump, his supporters, white people, Christians and dozens of other identity groups they seemingly harbor deep hatred for.

“This is what our audience wants. Isn’t it gonna look kind of bad if we’re all of a sudden not talking about politics?” one source told the outlet while attempting to paraphrase what the co-hosts said in response.

“Karamehmedovic convened a meeting with The View‘s executive producer Brian Teta and its hosts, and suggested the panel needed to broaden its conversations beyond its predominant focus on politics,” The Daily Beast reported.

The ABC president pointed to successful non-political segments the show has had in recent months, many of which featured high-profile guests, and suggested they pursue more of this content. Ana Navarro, another far-left co-host who routinely describes herself as a “Republican strategist,” was reportedly the most forceful in her pushback against the suggestion.

According to Navarro, ABC’s audience wants to hear the all-female talk show’s political opinions and would suffer a decline in viewership if they toned down the rhetoric.

The sources told The Daily Beast that Navarro and her co-hosts found the suggestion to be “silly” and insisted they would “keep doing their thing.”

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[Wingnut]

My feeling is... End it, don't mend it.  Besides those Harpie cows will never change.  Behar 82 Y/O hag needs to be put out to pasture. Woopi is 69 and needs to go.  Ana the "skank" Navarro is a rat hack.

[Free Vulcan]

What's you mean we has to make da monies?

That pesky advertising revenue, again.

[DCPatriot]

My feeling is... End it, don't mend it.  Besides those Harpie cows will never change.  Behar 82 Y/O hag needs to be put out to pasture. Woopi is 69 and needs to go.  Ana the "skank" Navarro is a rat hack.

Local TALK RADIO in Washington this morning:

The reason is because FOXNEWS's Harris Faulkner's OUTNUMBERED goes head to head with the view and has recently overcome THE VIEW in viewer ratings.

FOXNEWS commands 66% of all cable news viewership.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Ix-nay on the anti-Trump-nay because the corporate media overlords need Federal Government approval for a deal to go through.

RIP Indepepednt Journalism

[catfish1957]

Smart approach.  Multi-million $ lawsuits can hit the bottom line pretty badly.

Which BTW, I think Fox needs to look at it too.  As much as I enjoy Gutfeld's show, it is venturing very close to the same level of danger.

[Canuck Conservative]

and insisted they would “keep doing their thing”

Keep self-destructing?

Two thumbs up for that!

(these people are clueless, lol)