I have to hand it to Vice President JD Vance.
He ventured into the lion's den, going for an interview on the virulently anti-Trump, liberal enclave of "The View" on Tuesday. You knew it was likely to have some fiery moments.
Perhaps surprisingly, Vance was met by a lot of cheers. He joked about how the panel was made up of "MAGA Republicans."
🔥 LMAO! JD Vance after he walks out to appear on The View
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 16, 2026
"This is a show of MAGA Republicans, right?! That's what my media team told me." 🤣
Vance is going head first into the witches' den 😂 pic.twitter.com/dXU7ckMpcW
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Then Vance proceeded to dismantle a variety of the hoaxes/false beliefs that liberals have about President Donald Trump and his administration, starting with the "affordability hoax." Joy Behar said Trump was pouring money into things like the ballroom, the Reflecting Pool, and the UFC Freedom 250 event.
🚨 JD Vance just SHOT DOWN Joy Behar's lie on The View that President Trump called "affordability" a "hoax"
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 16, 2026
"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,… pic.twitter.com/9e3qB2YGLd
Vance shut Behar down on the "affordability hoax" narrative.
"What the President said is that 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 percent. Right now it's at 3.5 percent —by the way, too high - we're doing everything we can to bring it back down to 2.5 percent, where most people would like to see it.
"We inherited an affordability problem. We're doing a lot to make it better. It's going to take a little bit of time. The president knows a lot of Americans are struggling; in fact, he ran on that. He talked about it. We have done some things and made good progress on that point."
He also put down their "inflation" take. The problem, of course, is media never puts anything in context, which is why they've been twisting Trump for more than ten years.
Behar's comment is also another example of how wrong liberal media can be on facts. While there's talk in Congress about additional spending, the Trump plan for the ballroom was from private donations, which would create much-needed space that we would have in perpetuity, and he probably won't even get to use it. The Reflecting Pool was repaired with National Park Service (NPS) money, which is what the money is supposed to be used for — maintenance on NPS properties. The UFC event was paid for by the UFC, except for security. But Joy doesn't seem to know (or care) about any of that.
Vance explained one of the big subjects that the left constantly gets wrong, a subject on which the Trump team has had great success — border security and immigration enforcement. Sunny Hostin pushed the claim that (as to illegals) the "majority are not criminals" and you're "separating them from their families."
🔥 JD Vance is NOT allowing the The View liberals to use children of illegals for PROPAGANDA
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 16, 2026
"Do you know that during the last administration we had TENS OF THOUSANDS of children who were SEX TRAFFICKED by cartels, brought into our country in PROFOUNDLY dangerous and predatory… pic.twitter.com/v11TGMuwRJ
But she didn't have an issue enforcing when Democrats were in power. If an illegal alien is here illegally, they can be deported — that's the law. They were "separated" from their families when Barack Obama deported them, too. Liberals like Hostin are creating this fantasy position that the Trump team is evil for enforcing the law.
Vance wasn't having it, explaining how not only are we securing the border, but that is stopping truly evil conduct that was happening under the Biden administration.
"Do you know that during the last administration, we had tens of thousands of children who were sex trafficked by cartels, brought into our country in profoundly dangerous and predatory conditions?
"Unless you enforce the border, you invite that conduct. You think it's 'inhumane' based on the reporting of one person with a political bias. What I'm telling you is that it's inhumane to allow cartels to sex traffic people across the border!"
Where were the ladies of "The View" to call that out when Biden let that happen? And the Trump team is still having to clean up after the Biden team on that, tracking down what happened to the children that the Biden folks lost track of during their time.
Whoopi Goldberg pushed another claim that the Trump team was "stigmatizing people of color" by removing "history." Vance asked her to explain specifically what she was talking about. She claimed there were many examples, but then couldn't list a single specific one, just saying they were removing history.
🔥 Whoopi Goldberg just tried claiming the Trump admin is CASTING ASIDE black people, and JD Vance is NOT having it
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 16, 2026
WHOOPI: What did black people do to this administration to make you stigmatize folks of color?!
VANCE: "Look at Washington, DC, one of the most democratic and one… pic.twitter.com/kzLIel1HyY
There's a lot one could say about what Whoopi and Sunny Hostin said.
Vance's response was great — here are our results that are making things better.
"Look at Washington, D.C., one of the most democratic and one of the blackest — by share of population — cities, has seen a radical decrease in violent crime, and sexual assaults, 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."
Meanwhile, Democrats divide and put people into groups, rather than actually addressing problems as the Trump team is doing.
Vance did well, particularly given the deep state of delusion "The View" has.
Brand new @JDVance meme just dropped 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/0zZkqyncSP
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 16, 2026
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