The View co-host Joy Behar apologized to Elon Musk live on-air after calling him ‘pro-apartheid.’
Behar made the claim during a rant on Thursday’s show against the South African billionaire and his relationship with President Donald Trump.
‘The guy was not born in this country, who was born under apartheid in South Africa,’ she said, later calling Musk a ‘foreigner’ and ‘a foreign agent.’
‘So, [he] has that mentality going on. He was pro-apartheid, as I understand it.’
After a commercial break, Behar retracted the comment and admitted that she had no evidence of it being a true.
‘Now I’m getting some flack because I said that Musk was pro-apartheid. I don’t really know for sure if he was,’ she said.
‘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, but maybe he was, maybe he wasn’t – he might have been a young guy, too.
‘So, don’t be suing me, okay Elon?’
Behar drew chuckles from the audience before again attacking the administration.
‘They’re allowed to say any lie they want but we have to be really strict,’ she continued. ‘That’s why this show’s important.’
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The View’s Joy Behar claimed the South African billionaire was running the country for President Trump and suggested he was ‘pro-apartheid’
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‘Now that I’m getting some flack 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 their apartheid was in full blown before the great Nelson Mandela fixed that. He was around at that time, but maybe he was, maybe he wasn’t – he might have been a young guy too,’ Behar said
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‘Doesn’t sound like an apology. Sounds more like CYA because she is open to being sued and has said as much,’ one commenter on X said
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Behar walking back her comments didn’t fly with some viewers, who called it a ‘non-apology.’
‘If a person does NOT know something for certain or not, they should not go on blabbering about it & associate someone by name-then request that person doesn’t sue them,’ one person wrote on X.
‘I wish someone would not just ask them to apologize for their lies and actually just sue the s*** out of them! How many times is this now?’ another commented.
‘That was one of those, NonApology APOLOGIES,’ a third wrote.
Behar’s comments come weeks after she and co-host Whoopi Goldberg mocked Musk’s four-year-old son, X, after his viral appearance in the Oval Office.
‘Yesterday Elon Musk took his son X to a press conference’, Goldberg said, as Behar interrupted.
‘X?’ she said, poking fun at the boy’s name.
Shaking her head, Goldberg responded: ‘I did not name the child, and I don’t want to hear anymore mess about our names,’ prompting laughter from the panel
