Vice President JD Vance is set to make his debut on ABC’s The View, joining a panel of hosts who have been critical of him, President Donald Trump, and the administration more broadly.
He will join Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sarah Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro. According to a press release from ABC, Vance and the panelists will discuss his new book, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith and “priorities and goals for the administration and the latest political headlines.”
Vance will be the third sitting vice president to appear on The View, which has in the past welcomed guests from all sides of the political spectrum.
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The appearance comes at a busy moment for the administration, as U.S. officials are expected to sign a peace deal to end the war in Iran on June 19.
The timing is also a significant for Vance. It comes days after he appeared on CBS Sunday morning, alongside his wife, second lady Usha Vance, where he discussed a potential presidential run, following speculation about who the Republican nominee will be in 2028.
“I have no doubt that the president of the United States is going to be very supportive of anything that I ultimately decide to do,” he said. “But we really just haven’t talked about what that thing will be.”
He added that he would consider the possibility after this year’s midterm elections.
And it comes at a critical moment for The View. In February, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr announced that the commission was taking action against ABC, in line with equal time rules, which require broadcasters to offer equal airtime to political candidates. Carr had previously questioned whether the show qualifies as “bona fide news.”
The show has previously been in Donald Trump’s crosshairs, with the president having described the hosts as “degenerates” and “dumb women.”
Ahead of the vice president’s appearance on The View, Newsweek looks at what the hosts have said about him.
Whoopi Goldberg
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Goldberg discussed Vance multiple times. After former President Joe Biden withdrew and Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, she said: “I feel so bad for him…I pity this man…because he’s had a very bumpy rollout so far and here he is, once again saying one thing in public and another thing in private.”
She was commenting on reports about Vance’s early performance as the Republican vice-presidential nominee and discussing newly surfaced remarks he had made privately about the 2024 campaign.
She also criticized Vance’s response to two assassination attempts against Trump. Speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition in Atlanta after a man later identified as Ryan Routh was apprehended with a gun at Trump’s Florida golf course, Vance said: “The big difference between conservatives and liberals is that no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months, and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump…That’s pretty strong evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric.”
Goldberg responded: “JD, clearly you’ve not been to one of your boss’s rallies. Because you believe this insanity. He has been inciting violence since 2016, telling them to beat up hecklers, threatening to shoot looters and migrants.” She added: “You have to really take a look in a mirror to see the reflection.”
Joy Behar
In July of 2024, after Vance was confirmed as Trump’s pick for vice president, Behar said that this was “a very good choice…for the Democrats. This is good news for the Democrats in my opinion.”
She said that Vance was a “carbon copy” of Trump, and that he would fail to bring in any new voters.
In February of 2026, Behar discussed the State of the Union address, which she said had made her feel “really sad.”
Talking about Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address, she compared Vance and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to the Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie, and said :”I was furious and scared, as Bert and Ernie kept jumping up behind him, also, and every time he lied…these idiots would be ‘yay!.’”
Sunny Hostin
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Hostin suggested that Trump had picked Vance because of Project 2025 and said that Trump “knows that he’s the vice president that will do 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.”
Vance has been asked repeatedly by the press about the results of the 2020 presidential election, which Trump maintains that he won, though there is no evidence of this. When asked, Vance has often deflected.
For example, during the vice presidential debate in 2024, with his Democratic opponent, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Vance replied, “Tim, I’m focused on the future,” when asked about the 2020 election.
Alyssa Farah Griffin
Griffin, a former top Trump aide, discussed Vance on the show after a report from Politico came out that contained texts from young Republicans containing racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages.
Vance, when asked about that report, responded: “Grow up. I’m sorry. Focus on the real issues. Don’t focus on what kids say in group chat.”
Griffin was asked on the show by Goldberg if this is the way she wanted young Republicans represented in the United States.
Griffin said that she was once in leadership for a similar group and would have fired individuals if she had been in that situation.
She then said: “I think that speaks to two things. There is a dark underbelly in our politics that has allowed racism, it’s allowed hate, it’s allowed misogyny, and we’ve just kind of normalized it on the right, and there’s not enough folks who are willing to just call it out for what it is.”
Griffin then said that the incident also spoke to concerns around young men.
Sara Haines
Haines discussed Vance recently, in relation to his remarks about Pope Leo, after clashes between the Trump administration and the leader of the Catholic church.
After Pope Leo criticized the Iran war and said the conflict had been caused by the “delusion of omnipotence,” Vance said that it was “very important for the pope to be careful.”
Haines criticized this.
“Did JD Vance just say the pope needed to be careful when he spoke about theology? I think JD might want to be careful when speaking about the pope,” she said on The View.
“One of the most egregious things as a person of faith is watching when religion is weaponized in a way that feels like cherry-picked and a bit of a b************* of the very things so many of us try to live by and it informs our decisions.”
“I like the separation of church and state for this reason,” she said. “I would prefer to keep them separate, especially from a group of people that are manipulating and guiding as false prophets.”
Ana Navarro
Ahead of the vice presidential debate in 2024, Navarro said: “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.”
Navarro continued, adding, “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?”
She has also discussed Vance ahead of his appearance on Tuesday and addressed what she would like to ask him.
On the talk shows Behind the Table podcast, View producer Brian Teta asked Navarro: “What do you want to hear from him? I think people are kind of surprised he’s coming, actually.”
Addressing this, Navarro replied: “It shouldn’t be surprising. He’s got a book. I think that everybody, including Republicans, know that at The View, we’re really good at selling books.”
She then turned her attention to what she would like to hear from the vice president.
“I think it’s a very relevant time,” she said. “I want to ask him questions about Epstein; I want to ask him questions where there’s several issues where there’s sunlight between him and Donald Trump. The war, new military action, all these wars.”
She then added that Vance “seems to be a lot more tuned into the MAGA manosphere than Trump is, and really works those relationships.”
Navarro added that she hopes to have a “constructive conversation about the issues Americans care about.”
How To Watch JD Vance’s Appearance on The View
Vance will appear on The View at 11 a.m. ET on Tuesday, June 16.
It will air on ABC, and it can be watched live on TV through your local ABC affiliate. It can be streamed online through DirecTV, Fubo and Hulu.