Here's some popcorn viewing for Republicans. ABC's The View announced on Thursday that Vice President J.D. Vance will appear on the show on Tuesday to discuss current events as well as his new book Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.
Vance will be the third sitting vice president to appear, after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. All six co-hosts are expected to participate -- Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro.
Whoopi Goldberg announced the forthcoming event and actually said Vance's name out loud -- unlike the way she avoids saying Trump's name.
Whoopi Goldberg announced that J.D. Vance would appear next Tuesday on "The View." She actually said his name, unlike the way she avoids saying Trump's name. Will she try not to say Trump's name when Vance is sitting there? pic.twitter.com/q7HHKtIWYA
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) June 11, 2026
Nick Fondacaro's NewsBusters study noted The View had a total of 341 guests in 2025 -- 128 liberal guests to just two who were identified as conservative, while 128 were liberal. The two were Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (while she was still in office) and actress Cheryl Hines, who was pressed to defend her husband, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Some conservatives think this isn't worth Vance's time, as the hosts will surely ambush him and press him to denounce President Trump on something, anything. Liberals suggest this happened because FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is probing whether the show violates equal-time requirements for candidates -- but Vance isn't a candidate this year.
We can easily predict the View crew will push Vance about his wife Usha's Hindu faith, and his statement that he hopes for her to become Christian, which they found rude when discussing the Vances back in March. It seemed "very far apart to me," said Sunny Hostin.
Vance family flashback: On the March 31 blabber on ""The View," Sunny Hostin expressed distaste for JD Vance hoping his wife would someday accept the Christian gospel as rude, as in domineering. Then Joy Behar dropped bombs that the Vances have "done a 180" in their views for… pic.twitter.com/SAl9XZjHsy
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) June 11, 2026
Joy Behar jumped in: “The whole political scene is weird because people -- like you say, she was a Democrat till 2014. Her husband called Trump a 'moral disaster.' And yet here they are, kissing his butt every day. It's unbelievable to me how many people have done a 180 on everything that they believed before.”
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.
PS: This is the promotional copy for Vance’s new book:
Communion is a spiritual exploration of what it means to be a Christian in all the seasons of life JD Vance has experienced—as a child, a young man, a husband, a father, and a leader.
Picking up in some ways where Hillbilly Elegy left off, Communion recounts how Vance's pursuit of material privileges ultimately led him into a secular wilderness.
Communion reveals how Vance regained his faith and discusses his conversion to Catholicism, how his faith guides his work in public life, and how it shapes his thoughts about the future.
