‘The View’ Cohosts Say Second Lady Usha Vance is ‘Addicted to the Power’ and Call Out Her ‘Hypocrisy’

The View cohosts Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar are calling out Vice President JD Vance’s wife, Usha Vance. 

On the Tuesday, March 31, episode of The View, the women discussed the 40-year-old second lady’s recent sit-down interview with NBC, in which she said she does “feel very comfortable” in the political sphere and admitted she doesn’t always agree with JD, 41.

“I just think it’s a difficult thing to talk about because you don’t know what’s going on in a marriage, and she’s sitting there, she’s, you know, married to the vice president,” Hostin, 57, said. “She was a Democrat in 2014, she’s pregnant now, but I will say that it just couldn’t be me. It wouldn’t be me. I think our country’s in an existential crisis.”

“This is not a game,” Hostin continued. “I think your values need to align, especially at times like this, and some things are dealbreakers.”

Hostin then brought up comments JD made in November 2025 about how he hopes Usha — who is Hindu — “is somehow moved by the same thing I was moved by in church,” and that “I believe in the Christian gospel, and I hope that eventually my wife comes to see it the same way.”

“I think when your spouse is saying I want you to be a different religion. I don’t know that’s something that’s just very far apart to me,” Hostin admitted.

Behar, 83, stepped into the conversation, noting, “The whole political scene right now is weird.”

“Her husband called Trump a moral disaster, and yet here they are kissing his butt every day,” Behar remarked. “It’s unbelievable to me how many people have done a 180 on everything that they believed before.”

“And are you saying that maybe she has done that 180 so that her husband could also, for power?” Hostin asked to which Behar responded, “Of course! She’s addicted to the power, also, and the perks.”

If that’s the case, Hostin said it “feels like hypocrisy, because this is a smart woman.”

“She is a lawyer. She was Yale-educated. I believe that’s where they met,” Hostin continued. “This is a woman that had a life of her own and now all of a sudden, you know, maybe not so much.”