Thornton’s rugged oil exec also told Sam Elliott’s T.L. Norris that the likes of Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg “hate millionaires.”

Billy Bob Thornton’s Tommy slams The View on new *Landman *episode: ‘Pissed off millionaires bitching’ about ‘Trump’

Thornton's rugged oil exec also told Sam Elliott's T.L. Norris that the likes of Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg "hate millionaires."

By Ryan Coleman

Ryan Coleman

Ryan Coleman is a news writer for with previous work in MUBI Notebook, Slant, and the LA Review of Books.

EW's editorial guidelines

December 14, 2025 5:31 p.m. ET

Billy Bob Thornton's Tommy on 'Landman'; Sarah Haines (top), Joy Behar (bottom), and Whoopi Goldberg on 'The View'. Credit:

Paramount; ABC/Jose Alvarado

*The View *is under fire from the Taylor Sheridan TV universe.

On the latest episode of Sheridan's gritty oil prospecting drama *Landman*, Billy Bob Thornton's gruff crisis fixer and oil exec Tommy Norris takes a shot at the long-running daytime talk show. Speaking with his estranged father T.L. (Sam Elliott) over the phone, Tommy suggests the bored retiree find some new way of filling his time after moving in with his son.

"I don't know what to do," T.L. bemoans. "Well s---, do whatever you want to, read a book or watch TV, watch one of those daytime talk shows, like *The View *or something."

T.L. innocently asks, "What's* The View*?" prompting Tommy to launch into a casual yet brutal takedown.

Billy Bob Thornton on 'Landman'.

"Bunch of pissed off millionaires bitching about how much they hate millionaires, [President Donald] Trump, and men, and you, and me, and everybody else they got a bee up their ass about."**

However savage Tommy is in his assessment, he does at least qualify his remarks by calling *The View *"pretty funny."

'Landman' season 2: All about Billy Bob Thornton's return (and Sam Elliott's troubled new character)

Trump rips new Paramount leadership after '60 Minutes' airs Marjorie Taylor Greene interview

* *has reached out to a representative for *The View *for comment.

*Landman *is the seventh show the prolific Sheridan has premiered since *Yellowstone *first* *made waves with its 2018. It may be the latest show to enter the Sheridan-verse, but as yet it bears no direct connection to *Yellowstone *or its many spinoffs, aside from featuring two cast members who previously appeared on those spinoffs (Michelle Randolph appeared in *1923 *and Elliott starred in *1883*)*.*

The current cast of *The View *— Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin — have rarely ventured commentary on Sheridan or his TV universe, which tends to portray rugged individualists who at times espouse conservative values. But panelists like Goldberg and Behar comment daily on American conservatism and frequently critique Trump.

In November, the White House slammed Haines, Hostin, and Griffin's discussion of the files related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and their many mentions of Trump, calling them "Trump-deranged wackos."

Original Article on Source

Source: “EW Drama”