Van Jones appeared on The View last week to promote his documentary, The Reunited States and didn’t get the warm welcome that he was expecting.
“He felt like they were rude, and he was completely blindsided by how they questioned him. He was not happy about how the interview went. It was unprofessional,” a TV source told Page Six.
The show’s Sunny Hostin, and part-time co-host Ana Navarra, asked Van Jones about his previous association with the Trump administration.
“There are those who really accuse you of being an opportunist, a chameleon so to speak, who provided a racial cover for former disgraced, twice impeached, President Trump… People in the black community don’t trust you anymore. What is your response?” Hostin asked him.
Navarro followed up by saying: “You’ve lost a lot of people who trusted you, and who saw you as a voice, because of the positions you took during Trump.”
Meghan McCain, who co-hosts The View and produced The Reunited States, was also reportedly blindsided by her co-hosts’ confrontational approach.
“[Van] expected a friendly environment, and I don’t think Meghan even knew there was anything controversial about him. It was how they asked the questions that was off-putting. It was shocking how intolerant they were,” the source explained.
Jones expressed his disapproval for the conversation on Twitter following the incident. “I was there to promote a film… about people listening across the lines of difference,” he wrote. “Ironically, the need for the film was made more apparent by some of the co-hosts.”
