Joy Behar: ICE Is the New 'Gestapo,' Trump Wants 'War' With NATO & MN

On Friday’s episode of ABC’s The View, fill-in moderator Joy Behar admitted that she needed therapy to deal with her Trump Derangement Syndrome. And during the Tuesday episode of The View’s Behind the Table podcast, Behar proved just how severe her TDS actually was. According to her, ICE was just like the Nazi Gestapo rounding people up for extermination. She also claimed that America was “at war” with NATO and President Trump wanted to launch a war against Minnesota.

The first step in trying to fix one’s self was to admit you had a problem. Behar admitted that she was getting her therapy idea from former first Lady Michelle Obama. “She talks about how she and Barack have been in therapy all these years because they're dealing with the empty nest. I'm dealing with the next few years of Trump. I need therapy,” she quipped.

 

 

And boy, did she need it.

Behar kicked off their podcast with delusions of grandeur, proclaiming that she wanted her legacy to be taking part in getting Trump out of office; seemingly suggesting she played a critical role in the 2020 election results:

BEHAR: I want my legacy to be that I helped get Trump out of office. That's what I really care about.

TETA: Well, you did once. [Laughter]

BEHAR: I did. I wanna do it a second time. This time he's much more dangerous than he was before.

 

 

Behar would go on to claim that Trump was “10 times worse than Nixon was. At this point.”

Throughout her podcast appearance, host Brian Teta (the executive producer for The View) egged her on to get more and more unhinged. “We've seen people dragged from their cars, places of work, and over the weekend, a citizen was taken from his home wearing just his underwear, a citizen. Where, where does your mind go when you see this? I think I know the answer,” he teed her up.

Behar openly equated ICE with the Gestapo; backing up her claim by suggesting they matched the depictions of them in the movies, she’d seen. “I've watched too many World War II movies and watched jackboots pulling Jews out of their homes and beating them up on the streets to not make the similarity very clear to me,” she sneered.

 

 

She would go on to praise how the far-left residents of Minnesota were “trying their best to rebel against [ICE],” but lamenting, “they can't seem to do much.”

The evidence that Behar was dealing with a serious mental problem continued to mount when she claimed “we're at war” with NATO, before pivoting to claiming Trump “wants to go to war with a NATO member, an ally.”

The aged comedian flaunted her infamous ignorance of history as she claimed NATO was the military alliance the United States fought alongside during “World War II [and] the Vietnam War.”

NewsBusters previously reported in February 2024, that Behar was under the false impression that NATO was the military alliance that fought Hitler and the Nazis. Apparently, no one in her orbit cared to give her the correct information in nearly two years.

Behar’s delusion that Trump wanted to go to war with NATO carried over to assertions that he wanted to launch a war against Minnesota. “He wants to go to war with them and war with a United States state, Minnesota. What is wrong with him?!” she decried.

It was unclear if Behar meant Trump wanted to drop bombs on Minnesota; as would likely happen in the fictional war with NATO she noted in the same breathe.

 

 

The misconceptions from Behar didn’t stop at history lessons, but also civics class. She called on viewers to call their representatives and senators, and demand they invoke the 25^th Amendment: “And I want people to start putting the pressure on the Congress … the only power that the American people have before Election Day, is to get on the phones and leave messages and say, ‘listen, either invoke the 25th Amendment because he's not making sense.’”

You were the one not making sense, Joy. Congress had nothing to do with the 25^th Amendment. Only a president or their cabinet could invoke it.

Behar’s TDS seems to need in-patient treatment.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s Behind the Table
January 20, 2026
00:00

BRIAN TETA: It's always the question people ask. What do you want to be remembered as? What do you, what do you want your legacy to be?

JOY BEHAR: I want my legacy to be that I helped get Trump out of office. That's what I really care about.

TETA: Well, you did once. [Laughter]

BEHAR: I did. I wanna do it a second time. This time he's much more dangerous than he was before.

TETAL All right, well, let, let's talk about President Trump because, uh, first of all, welcome to Behind the Table, Joy.

BEHAR: Thank you.

[Title sequence]

TETA: All right. On the show today, we talked about President Trump's desire to take complete and total control of Greenland. It's like we're talking about a fictional supervillain at this point.

BEHAR: Yeah.

TETA: You said that he can't get any worse and it's no longer enough to protest and vote. You have to call your senators and congressmen. This is something you feel very strongly about. Tell me, tell me what your thoughts are on.

BEHAR: Well, it seems as though the bulwark at the moment needs to be removed, which is that the Republican Congress is still protecting him and their jobs. And they seem to not understand that he's destroying the United States of America. They don't seem to see that. Every day he does something else to, to destroy what has been built up over a few centuries now.

And I want people to start putting the pressure on the Congress, not on him, because he's a foregone conclusion that he is not well, in my opinion. I don't think he's well at all. He not making sense. He's acting - I know what I said today he had a narcissistic injury. Did you hear me say that today?

TETA: I don’t know if I did.

BEHAR: It's a psychological term that you are – your ego is so wounded, that you will lash out because of that. ‘I'm so angry that I'm not getting the award that I'm gonna invade a country.’ What is that? Come on.

TETA: Well, this is what people always say that he, this whole, his whole first run for office was based on being embarrassed by Obama at the Correspondences Dinner.

BEHAR: That is also another narcissistic injury. It's like most people who don't have this problem would laugh it off, would laugh it off. He can't laugh any kind of an attack, any kind of a joke about him. He can't stand it.

TETA: So the question –

BEHAR: That's why the comedians make him so nuts.

TETA: So, you're thinking is that, as an act of personal survival to keep their jobs, Congress might change their mind –

BEHAR: Yes. Yes.

TETA: - and that's what they have to feel.

BEHAR: Exactly. And the only power that the American people have before Election Day, is to get on the phones and leave messages and say, ‘listen, either invoke the 25th Amendment because he's not making sense.’

TETA: That’s never going to happen.

BEHAR: All right, all right. Then find a way to impeach and convict because he obviously has been committing crimes. He's making a lot of money in the presidency.

TETA: I don’t think that’s gonna happen either. I don't think they're gonna impeach him a third time. I, I mean -

BEHAR: This is just like Nixon was. They went to Nixon and they said, ‘listen, you're being impeached. They're all voting against you,’ and Nixon resigned. That's exactly what needs to happen. And this guy's 10 times worse than Nixon was. At this point.

TETA: Well, the other big thing we're talking about - and man, the news is dark - we're continuing to see ICE raids in Minnesota with protests happening all over the state. We've seen people dragged from their cars, places of work, and over the weekend, a citizen was taken from his home wearing just his underwear, a citizen. Where, where does your mind go when you see this? I think I know the answer.

BEHAR: Well, you know, Joe Rogan has now used the G-word, Gestapo -

TETA: Gestapo.

BEHAR: - and that's exactly, I mean, I've watched too many World War II movies and watched jackboots pulling Jews out of their homes and beating them up on the streets to not make the similarity very clear to me.

(…)

09:26

BEHAR: Although, Minnesota, they're trying their best to rebel against it, but they can't seem to do much. I mean, we're at war! He said he wants to go to war with a NATO member, an ally for - these are allies where World War II, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War. He wants to go to war with them and war with a United States state, Minnesota. What is wrong with him?!

(…)

ABC’s The View
January 22, 2026
11:16:09 a.m. Eastern

JOY BEHAR: She [former First Lady Michelle Obama] talks about how she and Barack have been in therapy all these years because they're dealing with the empty nest. I'm dealing with the next few years of Trump. I need therapy.

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