CNN commentator Van Jones told ABC's The View on Thursday that the public does need to give President-elect Donald Trump a chance to govern but not a pass on what President Obama never got passes on.
"This is important to me, because people keep saying we have to give him [Trump] a chance, and we do have to give him a chance. But we don't have to give him a pass on everything," Jones said to applause from the audience.
"We don't have to give him a pass on the things that they never gave Obama a pass in," Jones added.
He then brought up a hypothetical situation in which Hillary Clinton had won the presidency, introducing a group called SCUM, which stands for the Society for Cutting Up Men, a radical feminist group from the 1970s.
The group argued that men have ruined the world and it was time for women to step in and "destroy the male sex."
The author of the SCUM Manifesto, Valerie Solanas, is known for her attempt to kill Andy Warhol.
Some of the panelists could not believe this was a real group.
Jones compared SCUM to Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News who Trump recently named as his chief strategist in the White House.
"If Hillary Clinton had put in [her cabinet or senior staff] somebody from SCUM, do you think Republicans would be saying, 'Oh, give her a chance?'" Jones asked with a smile. "That's Bannon! That's Bannon! Bannon is from an organization that makes space for white nationalists, white supremacists, and was proud of it."
Some of the hosts on The View appeared to agree with Jones, and Joy Behar pushed back when he said that Bannon might not be a white nationalist.
"Now, does that mean he's one? I don't know. We don't know," Jones said.
"Wait a second. You lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas," Behar responded, drawing cheers from the audience.
Bannon has described himself in recent weeks as an "economic nationalist" who rejects "ethno-nationalism" and white supremacy.