Morale is low at ABC’s “The View” after the hosts were warned to stop criticizing President Donald Trump.
The majority liberal hosts of “The View” heavily criticized Trump for years. He was a popular topic on the show as cohosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Ana Navarro criticized everything from Trump’s hair to his social media posts.
But the cohosts are facing pressure to dial back their anti-President Trump rhetoric. The warning is leading to tension in front of the cameras, according to The New York Post.
Behind the scenes, “morale is low” among staffers after layoffs and an unpopular move such as sharing a dressing room with Tamron Hall’s show, multiple sources told The Post.
A source close to the situation told The Post the cohosts are upset because their guests must share a dressing room with “Tamron Hall” guests — and they also have to treat the set as a shared space.
This means that staffers can’t leave their personal belongings on the set overnight as they did in the past.
The cost-cutting measures are a result of lower ratings and decreased revenue from advertisers.
ABC News was forced to move the majority of its shows downtown to New York’s Hudson Square neighborhood from the affluent Upper West Side, as previously reported by Page Six.
Criticizing Donald Trump is not the money-making strategy that it once was. Trump is more popular now than he was during his first term in office in 2016.
