Kathie Lee Gifford’s view of “The View” is not very complimentary.
Among the adjectives Gifford used for the women are “viciousness,” “mean” and “miserable,” per Fox News. Gifford was talking on the “Tomi Lahren is Fearless” podcast hosted by Tomi Lahren.
“I used to be able to go on ‘The View’ and talk to Joy and Whoopi and a lot of the other people there,” Gifford said. “Debbie Matenopoulos and I are still good pals. And I never had a problem with anybody because they weren’t trying to, I don’t know, proselytize everything. I share my faith, but I don’t say, ‘You’re going to go to hell if you don’t —,’ I don’t do that. You know, I want people to have a little more heaven in their life than hell.”
Lahren asked Gifford if it would be the same show as it was years ago.
Lahren said she grew up watching ABC News and loved watching “The View.”
“Yes, but you know what I mean then about the viciousness,” Gifford said. “That part has changed. And it’s sad, because I mean, everybody seems like they’re just miserable people now. Nobody thinks, ‘I may make people miserable just talking the way we’re talking,’ but nobody will ever confuse me with a miserable person.”
“I have joy personified,” Gifford added.
Gifford hosted “Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee” and was part of NBC’s fourth hour of the “Today” show.
She recently wrote a new book, “Nero & Paul,” the latest installment in her “Ancient Evil, Living Hope” trilogy, co-written with Bryan M. Litfin, Ph.D. The book explores whether gaining power and popularity leads to happiness and fulfillment.
The co-hosts of “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Vavarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin, have regularly spoken out against the Trump administration.
Guest hosts filling in for Griffin, who is on maternity leave, have had heated debates with the liberal hosts over their support for President Donald Trump.
Behar acknowledged a shift in 2022 after Trump became president.
“I think that this show really took a change when Trump got in, ’cause we used to have more laughs before he got into office,” Behar said.
“He’s good material for comedians, but I mean he became so scary as a leader, whatever he is, as somebody who is such a threat to democracy, that it became very important that we convey what we felt and thought and read about to the audience. And so it became a completely different show. But that’s what happens,” Behar said.
