The View co-host Joy Behar apologized to Elon Musk live on-air after calling him ‘pro-apartheid.’
ehar 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.’
The View’s Joy Behar claimed the South African billionaire was running the country for President Trump and suggested he was ‘pro-apartheid’
