Fresh off negotiating a peace deal with the mullahs and extremists of Iran, Vice President JD Vance waded into the much more turbulent waters of ABC’s “The View” Tuesday.
After receiving warm, respectful applause from most of the audience, Vance endured a hostile interrogation not from the usual four rotating co-hosts of the show, but a tag team of all six: Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, and Alyssa Farah Griffin.
Who needs The Claw when you’ve got the set of “The View”?
Indeed, more punches were thrown than at the UFC Freedom 250 event Sunday night. Yet none landed on the verbally agile vice president.
Flogging Him With His Faith
Vance, on hand to promote his new book “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” saw the hosts try using his Christian faith against him.
While discussing Vance’s earlier criticisms of then-candidate Donald Trump, Haines insinuated the vice president was compromising his Christianity by backing Trump now.
She said his past criticisms of Trump were not just about policy but about “what Christians were willing to excuse.”
“That’s the part I can’t get past. What are you willing to excuse in the name of power?” she asked Vance.
Vance was also challenged on how he, as a Christian, could possibly support deporting illegal aliens.
“The Catholic faith says we take in immigrants,” Goldberg asked. “How do you justify that?”
Responded Vance: “The Christian faith says that you can have borders and you’re allowed to enforce your borders.”
Countering Complaints About ICE
The sparring over immigration continued, with the co-hosts condemning the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“Law enforcement is always inherently not a pretty process,” Vance stated. “Especially when you deal sometimes with violent people, with people who are resisting arrest. Some of the people that I have been told by the media were completely peaceful, never violated any laws—you look into the record and find out they were violent or they did have a criminal record. They had a sex trafficking conviction.”
Navarro attacked Vance over ICE allegedly separating parents from children. The vice president responded with a withering counter, detailing the tens of thousands of children sex trafficked and exploited due to former President Joe Biden’s open border policies.
They Had to Play the Race Card
The hosts played the race card like it was the show’s opening theme, mentioning in the context of immigration that Vance’s wife Usha is a person of color.
Then Whoopi suggested Trump wants to erase the history of slavery and that the administration has it in for black people.
“What did black people do to this administration to make you stigmatize folks of color?!” she asked.
Vance didn’t bat an eye.
“Look at Washington, D.C., one of the most Democratic—and one of the blackest, by share of population—cities, [which] has seen a radical decrease in violent crime, sexual assault, and murders. We have tried to take the crime issue seriously in part because we believe everybody, whether you are black or white or rich or poor, deserves to live in a safe neighborhood.”
During a much more friendly appearance last night on Fox News’ “Gutfeld!”, Vance said he knew he’d be called a racist on the ABC show, but he expected it would come from Hostin, not Goldberg.
Inflation and Affordability
The hosts tried to pin Vance over inflation, with Behar claiming Trump called affordability a “hoax.”
Vance jabbed back with facts. “What the president said is the idea that Republicans caused the affordability problem is a hoax. And I think that’s true. If you go back to the Biden administration, inflation got up to 9%. Right now, it’s at 3.5%—by the way, too high. We inherited an affordability problem. We’re doing a lot to make it better. It’s going to take a little bit of time.”
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein
The ladies of “The View” kept harping on Jeffrey Epstein, forcing Vance to repeatedly remind them that the Epstein files reveal the convicted child sex trafficker “hated” Trump, and that Trump tossed him out of his Mar-a-Lago club and “narc’d” on him to the police, which helped lead to Epstein’s downfall.
Shockingly, none of the six hosts asked about the freshly minted U.S.-Iran peace deal, as Vance played a crucial role in negotiating the agreement. Somehow, Trump’s friends during the Reagan administration are a more important topic than the current war, Middle East peace, and ending Iran’s nuclear threat.
The focus on Epstein, as opposed to Iran, would be like hosting a member of the New York Knicks and not asking about the recent NBA Finals.
A Civil Discourse
All told, despite the six-to-one odds, Vance came out unscathed.
He had gone into the interview hoping for the best.
“It may be the optimist in me, but I just fundamentally think that most people—not everybody, but most people—even if I disagree with them, you ought to try to have a conversation with them,” he told Fox News Digital in a sit-down interview Monday.
And true to form, Vance maintained his cool, remained respectful, and used his charm and baby blues to diffuse the Trump-hating gaggle. He also injected levity whenever possible during his hourlong ordeal.
The vice president opened his appearance by joking, “This is a show of MAGA Republicans, right? That’s what my media team told me.”
Later, he revealed how Behar had said off air that he’s fine, “which I think is about the best endorsement I’m gonna get out of Joy Behar.”
To which Behar interjected, “For a Republican.”
“Thank you. I appreciate that,” he quipped. “Graded on a curve here at ‘The View.’”
That even got a laugh out of Behar, which is tougher work for a Republican than reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran.
Al Perrotta is a contributing editor for the Daily Signal.
Reprinted with Permission from The Daily Signal – By Al Perrotta
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Way to go VP Vance — excellent paring against these Leftist hosts and putting them into their place.
VP Vance is a great soul. He knows what life, hardwork, education and just admireable principles truely are in America. Facing the Devil on the View is just courageous. He did well. A good prospect for President I will say!
My problem with the view is to me. They’re hate mongers, they try to push everybody into believing exactly what they believe or your a racist or terrorists. You’re whatever ugly name, they can come up with, it’s very sad. I’m embarrassed that as a woman of God, these women talk and mistreated the Vice President of the United States.
Who actually watches this one sided leftist tabloid which doesn’t care about truth and cannot stand the scrutiny of facts?
The View , entertainment for the Poorly Educated .
So predictable, pathetic, how do they survive, who would want to watch the pathetic hypocrites, how many of them would house or contribute to the upkeep for one illegal, they should ask Rosie to join the sisterhood band of losers.
One thing that most people don’t realize is is JD Vance is the first United States Marine to reach the level of Vice President.
These “cackling libtard hens” are who ABC puts on everyday to represent women. What an insult to decent smart women! Sunny Hostin like Ketanji Brown Jackson, Jasmin Crockett ect, ect shows how DEI give them law degrees just to be politically correct and not on there earned achievments work…
They should be calling this show, The Rear view already! They always use ancient history to bolster their Leftist racism and not just against whites or Republicans, but against any person if color who doesn’t fall into lockstep with their anti American slant on absolutely every issue. These are some of the most under educated, History blind nags ever allowed on the air, but what’s worse is that by their own edicts they shouldn’t be there!
Whoopi Goldberg sounded like Porky Pig at the beginning of the interview. “EBBBITTTY, EBBBITTTY, EBBBITTTY, EBBBITTTY THAT’S ALL FOLKS!!!” And WHO IN THE HELL STILL WATCHES THESE YENTAS???
I wouldn’t watch such DS [donkey ****], but understand JD asked Whoopi for examples and she couldn’t give any! Typical libs–throw out charges but cannot show any PROOF!
What a bunch of WITCHES!
That show is totally pathetic. There is one man who was a liberal Marxist that writes the content for all those women. They are just a mouthpiece for him. They don’t even think for themselves (probably partially do the fact that between all of them they don’t even have a pound of brains). What is amazing is that ABC continues to air that garbage. According to their agreement with the FCC to maintain their license to utilize a public airways they have to broadcast in the public interest, and I can’t for the life of me think of anybody that would be interested in that other than left-wing Marxist crazies. Everyone has Trump derangement syndrome and it’s just an echo chamber
Those women, definitely not ladies, are so filled with hate they can hardly speak. The term liberal does not fit today’s democrats. They are about as open minded as a Fort Knox vault, about as original as a 1970 penny. You can 100% predict every venomous word out of their mouth because you have already heard it 500 times from the fake news. None of them have a single original thought. They just pick up the most hateful lines from someone else’s mouth.
Are those harridans still on the TV?!
JD did well. Even scored a number of TKO’s along the way! More than held his own against these Leftist harpies!
The more relevant question is: Will Vance survive the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran ?
The view is a lying antagonizing show against President Trump and his cabinet, against VP Vance. They never ask questions having to do with the country. Just the things they broke, President Trump has fixed but not to their satisfaction or their expectations because they don’t like America to succeed. Plus those women on the view have no brain function. They have so much baggage in their past but are Soros paid for to spout their rhetoric. The puppets should not be believed and I don’t know why VP Vance even went on their show. He kept his dignity in tact and showed the world how little the view knows beyond the propaganda that is told to them by the progressive democrats.
Vance had a very good answer for each of their gotcha accusations. I am happy he performed so well. BUT I still favor Marco Rubio for President in 2028. Vance can wait; he is young enough and in my opinion, not yet seasoned enough. Rubio is expert on China and he is strong and ethical. I respect him a lot.
What a bunch of clowns. They are so out of touch with normal people. They are pathetic. Why anyone would listen to them is beyond me.
Are those all women? At least a couple of those characters leave room for doubt.
The Vice President handled this well. Others do not and it doesn’t bode well for most to go on the view….they are rabid cats!
Not surprising that this show has sponsors, foolish people are easy to sell to.
Admire the coolness of JD is the nasty world of the view. Not sure I see the value of promoting their vile show with his willingness the waste time with them. The view is mentioned far too often when ignoring them might tune them out.
AMAC…I thought that the major news today would be Trump signing MOU with Iran to ceasefire for sixty days and open up Strait of Hormuz quickly. My biggest question, does Iran have mines in the waters of Strait & if so how did US guide 200 ships thru this in the last couple months? I hope that MOU also addressed the us of MINES ? And again, thought this was bigger news than Vance and the VIEW stuff.
everyone should watch this in it’s entirety.
vance is a BADASS!
the “possessors of vaginas” were vastly outmatched!
The Beeotches on the View are sadistic, vile, miserable creatures consumed with HATE, obsessed with ANGER, and are ungrateful hypocrites. They all suffer from the deadly disease called TDS.
Thank you for this recap of the action, so I don’t have to listen to it myself.
The cast of the View are Socialist Democrats and enemies to our country! I thought I was stupid then I heard them, made me realize I wasn’t as stupid as them!
Whoopi always has to being up race because she is too ignorant to think of anything else. Vance answered every question truthfully and left these ladies appearing foolish.
I can’t even understand what anyone sees in anyone of these women. No desire to waste my time listening to them.
Can’t wait to see him in the Oval Office in 2028.
Without slavery they all would be without their jobs, that is the only card they have left. Otherwise they would have to talk about current problems and the situation that can’t be hidden, but no one will dare to go near it. The crime, fatherless children roaming streets at night, failing in schools, deterioration of the community and welfare dependency, would be interesting to hear what any of them have to say about it, despite billions of dollars spent. Race baiters quiet on that as well, it’s the white supremacy, don’t you know it.
Indiana Jones uttered, “I hate snakes!” a number of times as he faced a wide array of slithering serpents, imperiling him. Unlike J.D. Vance who went voluntarily into the snake pit known as, the View. Does his appearance give that show more credence? Are the people who watch the View capable of comprehending Vance’s answers? I’m certainly glad he is more composed and diplomatic in presenting himself. Is J.D.Vance a snake charmer?
I think he did an awesome job countering and answering all The View’s ignorant questions. As normal instead of focusing on positive they want the negativity to continue which is what their show is and has always been founded upon. I tried watching when first aired but it is the most ridiculous daytime show ever on air. I just don’t understand how its remained on air except management may be apprehensive in cancelling due to their “stars” (LMBO) possible lawsuits or slander which is what would no doubt happen. I see those women as evil evil people just don’t understand how others can actually listen and believe what is stated and vocalized by those….well women (I guess or think). Such nonsense!!
P Vance is a brave man ( former US Marine ) I’m not surprised he went on the show called d the VIEW. I’ve never actually watched a episode but clips are often seen as evidence of the hosts vile hate filled speech they spews from their sphincter shaped mouths. Its hard to believe that this show is a viable show that advertisers support by buying time for commercials. Who actually watches this ?
That was the first & last time I watched the View ( should be the PHEW ) JD was great , & frankly what you see is what you get ! a real genuine nice , intelligent man & a bunch of HATERS ..
I could shave my Dogs a-s , make him walk backward and he would survive the View . The View entertainment for the Mentally Challenged .
They ended up liking Vance and probably would get their vote
The View is still on? Those vile women!
But unfortunately the view survived Vance. They need to be nuked!
So glad someone has the ba$$s to stand up to the witches.
As good as he is, Vance and friends better figure out a way to win the midterms, or the ‘ladies of the view’ will come out on top. And who want to see or hear that?
This article did well to call them the Women of the View and not attempt to call them the Ladies of the View!
The FCC is taking public comments on shows like the View to 7-7
See Creative Futures website 6-19.
RCC doctrine is blasphemous and far from true Christianity. I pray God sets him free from it.
Vance needs to do some homework on affordability. Trump said that AFFORDABILITY IS A DEMOCRAT HOAX …ant that is on the world wide media. So do not try to cover this up with the fake news response.