Trump: I won’t do ‘The View’ with current hosts

On Wednesday, Trump had attacked Nicole Wallace, a former Republican White House aide to President George W. Bush and now one of the co-hosts of ABC’s popular talk show aimed at women.

“The ratings for ‘The View’ are really low,” Trump had written on Twitter. “Nicole Wallace and [model and guest co-host] Molly Sims are a disaster. Get new cast or just put it to sleep. Dead TV.”

Though the shows ratings have declined in recent years, it still attracts a sizable audience.

Trump directed a follow-up message to Whoopi Goldberg, the program’s moderator. “Whoopi Goldberg had better surround herself with better hosts than Nicole Wallace, who doesn’t have a clue,” he wrote “The show is close to death!” (Goldberg responded to Trump on Twitter, writing, “I assume by your tweet you won’t be gracing us here at ‘The View’ but remember, it’s a long way to election 2016.”

Wallace has been critical of Trump in the past. In April, she asked that the show “ignore him.”

“She speaks badly of me,” Trump told the Examiner. “I’ve never met her. She speaks badly of me always, constantly, no matter what it is. She figures she’ll get a little publicity that way. ‘The View’ is dying. When Barbara [Walters] was there, it was better.”

Veteran broadcaster Barbara Walters created “The View” in 1997. She retired in 2014. She sat with Trump on the show’s couch in 2011, when Trump had said he was considering running for president in the 2012 election.

In an interview, Trump responded to another critic of his, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, who recently said that Trump’s supporters “have failed an intelligence test.”

“This is a guy who tries to get publicity off my back but nobody listens to it because his show is dead,” Trump said.