Joy Behar has found a profitable corner in American life: Sit at a famous table, scold half the country, and call it moral clarity.
The co-host of The View did it again after playing a clip of comedian Larry David calling President Donald Trump's UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House a “travesty,” and saying he was embarrassed to be an American.
Behar agreed, then added, “We all should be.” She tied her shame to Trump's immigration policies, and repeated the old chestnut about children being separated from their families.
The UFC event took place on June 14 on the White House South Lawn. President Trump and UFC President and CEO Dana White walked out together, and the event was billed as part of America's 250th anniversary celebration.
The View decries celebrating America's 250th birthday.
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 26, 2026
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Behar didn't have to like the spectacle; plenty of Americans dislike mixing politics, celebrity, and sports on federal grounds. Yet her response skipped criticism and went straight to national shame.
Conservatives know the feeling she described, just not in the way she meant. Behar's habit of turning a paid television seat into a daily confessional of anti-Trump exhaustion embarrasses many Americans. The sneer, the half-formed history lesson, and the tired assumption that disliking Trump gives any celebrity a higher claim of patriotism all embarrass them.
Behar's gift isn't persuasion; it's irritation. She talks as though America shrinks every time Trump wins a policy fight, secures a border, celebrates a national anniversary, or refuses to bow before the tastes of a Manhattan greenroom.
The issue isn't Behar's criticism of Trump; free people can criticize presidents, but her issue is her habit of confusing her own political grievances with the country's moral condition.
The immigration debate deserves more than a daytime shrug and a recycled charge. Border enforcement involves families, courts, smugglers, cartels, asylum claims, schools, hospitals, police, and taxpayers.
Any country refusing to enforce its laws eventually asks ordinary people to absorb the cost. A country that badly enforces them wounds families and stains its conscience.
Both truths can stand; Behar only seems interested in the one that helps her scold.
DHS has spent the Trump administration's second term highlighting lower border releases, removals, and tougher enforcement. Critics challenge his policy, supporters defend it, and Behar argues her side. Yet telling Americans they should be embarrassed by their own country because she detests Trump isn't an argument; it's a mood with a studio audience.
Behar is free to be embarrassed. Such freedom is part of the American bargain she keeps taking advantage of while condemning the country that protects it. She sits on television, mocks the president, accuses the nation of cruelty, and goes home unworried that the state will touch her.
Ana Navarro, another co-host, even noted that in countries such as Iran, Cuba, North Korea, and Nicaragua, such speech could carry deadly consequences.
Behar doubles down on saying she's embarrassed by America.
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 26, 2026
She says "we all should be." pic.twitter.com/wW9MNSJWS7
Her point cut against Behar more than Trump.
Yes, America has flaws; one could argue that one of those flaws gave us Joy Behar, a woman who built her career on a platform, gave her wealth, liberty, and the freedom to tell the rest of us we should hang our heads. Conservatives don't owe her agreement; they don't owe her applause, and if Behar is embarrassed to be American, she can keep saying so. If she decides she'd rather leave than live under such a terrible flag, many Americans will gladly hold the door open.
Not with hatred, but with relief.
