Flashback: Vice President JD Vance will appear on ‘The View’ after hosts condemned him for years

After years of blasting Vice President JD Vance, the co-hosts of “The View” will host him on their show.

Vance, who is set to join the show on June 16, will be the third sitting vice president to appear on “The View.” All six co-hosts, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro, are expected to be in studio for the rare interview with an elected Republican.

“The View” had a total of 341 guests in 2025, but only two of them were conservative, while 128 were liberal, according to a study conducted by the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters.

The hosts of the show have a long history of blasting both him and his wife since he became President Donald Trump’s running mate.

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The hosts of the show have a long history of blasting both him and his wife since he became President Donald Trump’s running-mate.

“This is a very good choice… for the Democrats. This is good news for the Democrats in my opinion,” co-host Joy Behar had said in July 2024, shortly after Vance was confirmed as Trump’s VP pick. She went on to argue that Vance is a “carbon copy” of Trump who would fail to bring in any new voters.

In that same episode, co-host Sunny Hostin suggested that Trump picked Vance because of Project 2025 and “because he knows that he’s the vice president that will do the things that Mike Pence would not. I really do believe that. He is an election denier. He has not committed to accepting the results of this year’s elections.”

Shortly before the vice presidential debate happened later in the year, co-host Ana Navarro suggested that Gov. Tim Walz should use the debate to humiliate Vance as some sort of political shapeshifter.

“What Tim Walz needs to do is reveal JD Vance for who he is, a coward, duplicitous, hypocritical opportunist who remains silent while Trump attacks Kamala Harris for being biracial even though his children are biracial,” she said. “Who remained silent while Trump supporters issue attacks on Kamala Harris for being Indian descent, for being south Asian even though he’s married to an Indian woman.”

She proceeded to ask, “Could there be anything more disgusting than a man who remains silent because he is willing to be anything and say anything in order to get elected? And I hope he reminds him of when he called Donald Trump ‘America’s Hitler.’ Remember that, JD?”

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The hosts have also blasted Second Lady Usha Vance directly.

Hostin argued that Usha and Vice President JD Vance’s values did not align, as she quoted Vance once saying that he hoped Usha, who is Hindu, would “come to see” and believe in the Christian gospel.

Hostin said, “And she’s sitting there, she’s, you know, married to the vice president. She was a Democrat in 2014. She’s pregnant now, but I will say that it just couldn’t be me. It wouldn’t be me. I think our country’s in an existential crisis. This is not a game. I think your values need to align, especially at times like this, and some things are dealbreakers.”

Behar pointed to the vice president’s past criticism of President Donald Trump and said Vance now kisses Trump’s “butt every day.”

Hostin asked Behar, “And are you saying that maybe she has done that 180 so that her husband could also, for power?”

“Of course! She’s addicted to the power also, and the perks,” Behar said.

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment, as well as Vance, but did not receive an immediate reply. 

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Fox News’ Hanna Panreck and Brian Flood contributed to this report.