Having spent the days before the appearance in Trump Regime Media mode, the Media Research Center made sure to give Vice President J.D. Vance’s appearance on “The View” the most pro-Vance and anti-host spin possible. Chief “View” hate-watcher Nicholas Fondacaro led the way:
Vice President J.D. Vance went into the vipers’ pit on Tuesday, spending most of the 11 a.m. hour with the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View and subjected himself to their nasty nagging. They couldn’t hide their crazy as polite questions quickly gave way to repeated bouts of crosstalk, interruptions, snide comments, as well as screaming and shouting. Not all of it at Vance, but among each other too. Presented below are some of the wilder moments of the whole event.
While Vance was trying to answer a question from pretend independent co-host Sara Haines about immigration, where she demanded he help her try to explain the Trump administration to her kids, fake Republican co-host Ana Navarro interrupted so she could pile on with an unsupported conspiracy theory that ICE was torturing and starving kids in a detention center.
[…]During the interview, Navarro was a near-constant problem for moderator Whoopi Goldberg.
As they were approaching a commercial break and Vance was wrapping up a response to a question from Goldberg and co-host Sunny Hostin about race (because of course it was), Navarro tried to squeeze in a question about Michelle Obama. This caused Goldberg to clap her hands vigorously and scream to God to get Navarro shut up:
Fondacaro concluded by declaring:
By the end of the show, Goldberg looked exhausted. Since The View was so highly curated to only allow one political opinion, it’s not often that Goldberg had to do her job and actually moderate. The rest of the cast were certainly testing her.
Much like the MRC is highly curated to only allow one political opinion? Fondacaro is silent about that.
The MRC’s nepo-baby chief chimed in on a right-wing radio show:
Media Research Center President David Bozell joined The Dana Show with Dana Loesch on Wednesday afternoon to discuss Vice President JD Vance’s recent appearance on ABC’s “The View” and CBS’s Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss potentially taking editorial control over CNN, along with Scott Pelley’s “press tour” following his firing from 60 Minutes.
It came as a shock to many that The View even invited Vice President Vance on the show, especially given that an MRC NewsBusters study found that they had featured only two conservative guests compared to 128 liberal guests in 2025. Notably, they have characterized the Vice President as a “sociopathic liar” and accused both him and Elon Musk of treason in relation to President Trump, alleging attempts to seize control. As Bozell stated, “That narrative just falls flat when you actually meet the man. If you’re the host, you have to try to cash that check, and they didn’t do it. There was a lot of excitement leading into that interview, but the whole thing just felt flat.”
Bozell followed up with another right-wing radio appearance:
Vice President JD Vance entered the lion’s den and returned unscathed, following a six-on-one interview on The View on Tuesday. On the latest episode of The Lars Larson Show, David Bozell, President of the Media Research Center (MRC), discussed what unfolded in this highly anticipated appearance. Bozell thought it went exactly as expected.
[…]The View, leading up to Vance’s appearance, had created a warped portrait of him, and that entire persona was invalidated the longer the interview went on. Vance gave articulate and calm responses, conducting himself like a gentleman should, as the women repeatedly interrupted him.
Unmentioned: Both of these Bozell radio appearances were highly curated to allow only one political opinion.
Meanwhile, Fondacaro had his own personal narrative to keep up. He hate-watched a podcast the show’s co-hosts run:
Following Vice President J.D. Vance’s appearance on ABC’s The View on Tuesday, co-host Joy Behar and the show’s executive producer Brian Teta scurried off to record the daily episode of their Behind the Table podcast to, in part, commiserate about the interview. Generally happy with how it went, Behar predicted that every presidential hopeful needed to visit The View if they actually wanted the female vote in their corner.
[…]“We were able to ask whatever we wanted. And we asked tough questions. He answered, he definitely deflected plenty of them,” Teta added. “But at the same time, he was willing to sit with you guys and have this conversation which I respect.”
Behar chided in response: “Well, he wants to sell a book and he wants to run for president. Let’s be real.”
Teta proclaimed that Vance had set the bar and that every presidential hopeful now had to visit The View. Behar took it further and said they needed to come if they wanted the female vote:
[…]While Behar also said she had never voted for a Republican and that Democrats had “good heart[s]” (and the GOP didn’t), she admitted to telling Vance during a commercial break that he had a “good vibe” “for a Republican.”
Fondacaro ranted in a June 18 hate-watch of the show proper:
The liberal ladies of ABC’s The Viewhave never been very subtle about their dislike of President Trump, though one might have hoped that their interview with Vice President JD Vance may have changed their minds somewhat. Instead, on Wednesday’s show, moderator Whoopi Goldberg and the rest of The View cast were devising a plan to get Trump’s “regime” out of power.
Spurred on by the reported memo of understanding with the Iranian regime to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Goldberg proclaimed: “The only way to stop this is to change the regime.”
Fondacaro took particular offense to Vance being likened to former right-wing Hungarian President Viktor Orban:
Behar comparing Trump to Orban was very ironic. Trump himself ran on a “too big to rig” campaign during his 2024 campaign, and just like the Hungarian opposition against Orban, Trump was carried to victory against an allegedly rigged system via mass voter turnout.
Fondacaro didn’t mention that his employer loved Orban to the point that it had a partnership with a Hungarian think tank funded by Orban’s government, or that it gave only token notice to Orban’s defeat.