*Van Jones joined the cast of “The View” on Thursday to discuss his post-election comments on “whitelashing,” and the crisis within both the Republican party and the Democratic party.
“Both political parties right now I think have big problems, and they don’t want to discuss it,” he said.
Host Joy Behar noted how Donald Trump has “some interesting people that he’s appointing.”
“I mean, Steve Mnuchin … He was a former Goldman Sachs partner … Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services is staunchly anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage,” she said.
Joy continued listing Trump’s polarizing picks, including Jeff Sessions for attorney general and Steve Bannon as chief White House strategist.
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Behar asked, “What do you think about these choices?” Jones responded by mocking the mainstream media for normalizing Trump’s divisive rhetoric, and said sheepishly, “Give him a chance,” before laughing.
“This is important to me because people keep saying we have to give him a chance,” Jones started. “And we do have to give him a chance. But we don’t have to give him a pass on everything.”
Jones asked, “Can you imagine if Hillary Clinton when she first got in — in the 70s there was a group called SCUM, Society for Cutting Up Men … If Hillary Clinton had put somebody in from SCUM, do you think Republicans would be saying ‘Oh, give her a chance.’”
“Bannon is from an organization that made space for white nationalists, white supremacists and was proud of it,” Jones continued.
Watch the full segment below.
Meanwhile, President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President–elect Mike Pence kicked off their “Thank You” tour December 1, with a rally at Cincinnati’s U.S. Bank Arena. Us magazine reports.
“Today we made history, and now the real work begins. That is the second reason that I’m here today, I’m going to discuss the action plan to make America great again. Although we did have a lot of fun fighting Hillary [Clinton], didn’t we?” he said, while the crowd chanted “Lock her up.”
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