WATCH: Joy Behar Forced To Apologize To Elon Musk After Making Absurd Claim

Joy Behar is facing the consequences of a recent defamatory claim against Elon Musk, which left the ABC host scrambling to issue an apology and avoid another lawsuit.

Behar is the latest co-host of “The View” to swim into turbulent waters after making an outlandish claim that Elon Musk was pro-apartheid while living in South Africa, his home country. If it weren’t for the “great Nelson Mandela,” Behar opines, racists and bigots like Musk may have oppressed the country’s majority black population for decades to come.

Citing a claim that “Musk was pro-apartheid” while living abroad, Behar disclosed she “didn’t really know” if that was true but nonetheless felt compelled to say it anyway.

“He grew up in that time when apartheid was full-blown before the great Nelson Mandela fixed that. He was around at that time, maybe he was, maybe he wasn’t. He might’ve been a young guy,” Behar said on Thursday’s program. “So, [he] has that mentality going on. He was pro-apartheid, as I understand it.”

“So don’t be suing me, okay Elon?” she jokes, drawing laughter from the studio audience.

Behar’s comments came after a commercial break and a previous segment where she told President Trump to “take a nap” and let Musk, a “foreigner” and “enemy of the United States,” run the country.

“They’re allowed to say any lie they want but we have to be strict,” Behar went on about Musk and the Trump administration.

“That’s why this show’s important,” she declared.

WATCH:

Joy Behar has been forced to walk back her comment that Elon Musk was “pro-Apartheid” and admits she was literally just spewing nonsense she knew nothing about:

“I didn’t know if he was or wasn’t. Maybe, maybe he wasn’t. Don’t be suing me, OK, Elon?”

Should still sue her since… pic.twitter.com/hhmRdOnuUA

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 28, 2025

How uninformed and hypocritical is Joy Behar?

In this clip, she rambles about how Elon Musk is a foreign agent… then falsely claims he was pro-apartheid… then questions if he came here legally or not.

How has The View not been sued into oblivion yet?
pic.twitter.com/34tZWhEKhN

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) February 27, 2025

“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, according to the Daily Mail.

Online, critics rushed to paint Behar’s contrition as a classic 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.

Musk continues to serve as the administration’s biggest target for the ladies of “The View.” Weeks earlier, Behar and co-host Whoopi Goldberg joked about the name of Musk’s youngest son when he accompanied his father to a briefing in the Oval Office.

“Yesterday Elon Musk took his son X to a press conference,” Goldberg said, causing Behar to interrupt.

“X?” she said, mocking 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.

It’s just the latest chapter in a seemingly endless story of lawsuit-provoking behavior by Behar and the band. Alyssa Farah Griffin was recommended for prosecution after U.S. House Republicans uncovered that she helped Liz Cheney coach a witness during the J6 select committee. Sunny Hostin was forced to read a legal disclaimer on-air after making false statements about Trump and other conservatives like Matt Gaetz. And ABC itself settled a $15 million lawsuit brought by Trump after George Stephanopoulos falsely claimed he had been found guilty of rape.