The View calls out JD Vance to his face in tense interview: 'That's not what he said!'

Vice President JD Vance spent Tuesday on The View trying to explain away President Donald Trump's controversial remarks — and co-host Joy Behar immediately shut him down.

Vance was on the show defending the administration's economic record days after Trump told reporters he loved the surging inflation, insisting it would fall once the war in Iran ended. Consumer prices had hit a three-year high in May.

Behar came in swinging, invoking Trump's earlier claim that affordability is a "hoax" and the hundreds of millions being poured into the White House ballroom and the National Mall reflecting pool.

"Why is he doing them when everybody knows that Americans are struggling?" Behar asked. "What is he spending all this money for?"

Vance pushed back on the "hoax" framing, arguing Trump meant the affordability crisis was Democrats' fault, not his. Then co-host Ana Navarro landed the punch that changed the segment.

"He just said he loves the inflation," Navarro said.

"What he said is that he loves the fact that the inflation is gonna come down when this war is over," Vance replied. "That's what he said."

"That's not what he said," co-host Whoopi Goldberg fired back. "That wasn't a direct —"

Behar finished the thought.

"Are you his interpreter or are you his vice president? Come on!"

Vance let out a forced laugh, then tried again — reiterating that Trump's "I love the inflation" was really a prediction about post-war price drops, and pointing to falling gas prices as evidence of progress.

"When?" Behar said.