Donald Trump Once Invited ‘The View’s Joy Behar To Be On ‘The Apprentice’ — But She Said No

Joy Behar had no interest in joining Donald Trump on The Apprentice — even when they were on friendly terms.

The comedian, who has repeatedly blasted the former president on The View ever since he got into politics, looked back on their run-ins during Wednesday’s (April 17) episode of the Behind the Table podcast.

“Donald Trump and I go back on this show,” she told The View’s executive producer Brian Teta. “He was just kind of a New York guy who had a show.”

Teta added that Trump was “the guy you called” if Regis Philbin wasn’t available, while Behar remembered the time he invited her to join an unspecified season of his reality TV series The Apprentice.

“He was doing The Apprentice and asked me to be on it,” she revealed. “I didn’t want to be on it. I said, ‘No, I’m not interested.'”

She continued, “He’d be here [in New York City]. At that point, I had Melania [Trump] on my other show on HLN. She was hawking her jewelry with a touch of birther-ism. He came [to The View] and said, ‘Thank you for having Melania on the show.'”

Behar noted that Trump was “not a threat” at that time, which explained why she took a photo with his son and daughter-in-law at a White House Correspondents Dinner when Barack Obama was in office.

“I did not know he was going to turn into this anti-democratic, philandering felon,” she said. “He was not the threat that he is now. Now I would not take a picture with anybody.”

The longtime co-host also recalled attending Trump’s wedding to Marla Maples and running into him at an Adele concert in New York City when he was running for president the first time.

“I said to him, ‘What are you doing? You really want to do this?'” Behar told Teta. “And he said, ‘Have you seen the poll numbers?’ That’s where he was at. Suddenly, he saw himself as possibly getting the nomination.”

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.