Kid Rock Leveled Joy Behar With the Perfect Response to Her Mocking His Apache Helicopters
Joy Behar has spent 29 years on The View telling America what it should think.
Today she used that platform to mock a man being saluted by U.S. Army Apache attack helicopters.
Kid Rock had something to say about the whole thing – and it involves someone The View ladies really didn't see coming.
Joy Behar and Whitney Cummings Mock Kid Rock Apache Helicopter Video
On the March 31 episode of The View, Joy Behar and guest host Whitney Cummings watched a clip of two U.S. Army Apache helicopters hovering outside Kid Rock's Nashville estate – the 27,000-square-foot mansion he calls the "Southern White House."
Their reaction?
Behar wanted to know why the helicopters didn't make more noise to drown out the music.
Cummings called Kid Rock a man "at war with himself" for being a 55-year-old white rapper who still calls himself Kid.
They laughed.
They thought they were scoring points.
Here's what they missed.
The Army Suspended the Flight Crew and Launched a Formal Investigation
The same day The View taped its segment, the U.S. Army confirmed it had suspended the entire flight crew and opened a formal AR 15-6 administrative investigation.
Two AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade at Fort Campbell hovered outside Kid Rock's poolside estate on March 28.
Kid Rock was having a Saturday afternoon beer.
He walked outside, saw the helicopters coming, and saluted.
Army spokesperson Maj. Montrell Russell confirmed the crew has been suspended from flight duties while investigators review FAA compliance, aviation safety protocol, and approval requirements.
Kid Rock's response when asked if he was worried about the pilots facing consequences?
"I think they're gonna be alright. My buddy is Commander in Chief."
The man is not sweating it.
Joy Behar Has Never Been Saluted by a Military Pilot
Joy Behar has spent nearly three decades on The View telling America what to think.
She has never once been saluted by a U.S. military pilot.
Kid Rock captioned his viral video with a direct shot at Gavin Newsom – that the level of respect shown at his Tennessee estate was something the California governor would never know.
He's right.
The mainstream media covered this as an embarrassment for Kid Rock.
They buried the lead.
The actual story is that 101st Airborne pilots – trained to fly Apache attack helicopters in active combat zones, currently deployed in the conflict with Iran – spotted a Trump ally poolside and made a decision.
They stopped.
They hovered.
They let a patriotic American show his appreciation.
Whatever the Army investigation concludes, that moment happened.
The cameras caught it.
And no amount of mockery from a daytime talk show panel erases what it meant to every veteran and active-duty service member who watched that clip.
The View Mocked Kid Rock and Picked the Wrong Fight
Kid Rock headlined Turning Point USA's All-American Halftime Show during Super Bowl LX in February, running opposite Bad Bunny's official performance.
Six million Americans tuned in live on YouTube.
Bad Bunny drew 128.2 million for the official show.
The View and the rest of the mainstream media treated the gap as a humiliating defeat.
What they refused to acknowledge: six million people voluntarily sought out a patriotic counter-program on Super Bowl Sunday, bypassing the NFL's official show to watch Kid Rock wave a flag.
That's not a defeat.
That's a constituency.
The left keeps confusing vote totals with cultural reach.
When half the country feels invisible in its own culture – passed over by the NFL, lectured by Hollywood, mocked on daytime television – and then a man with a Saturday beer salutes two Army Apaches hovering over his pool, something happens.
It goes viral for a reason.
Joy Behar draws around 2.7 million View viewers on a good week.
Kid Rock's helicopter clip hit every platform in the country by Sunday night.
The View picked the wrong fight.
Sources:
- Tracy Wright, "Kid Rock Nashville Home Flyover Prompts US Army to Suspend Aircrew," Fox News, March 31, 2026.
- Maj. Montrell Russell, U.S. Army Public Affairs Statement, March 31, 2026.
- Maj. Jonathon Bless, 101st Airborne Division Public Affairs Statement, March 30, 2026.
- "Super Bowl 2026 Halftime Show Official Ratings Revealed for Bad Bunny and Kid Rock," TV Insider, February 11, 2026.
- "US Army Suspends Aircrew After Helicopter Flyover at Kid Rock's Nashville Home," Military.com, March 31, 2026.
