CNN’s Anthony Bourdain said he is confronting his own anti-Trump prejudices in a “Parts Unknown” special extended episode where he will venture into “Trump country” for the first time on the show.

Bourdain traveled to West Virginia for the premiere episode of the 11th season of the hit show in which he travels around the world to experience local cultures, people and food.

The 75-minute episode, airing Sunday on CNN, will bring Bourdain into “the heart of coal country; the heart of god, guns, Trump and football — all of which I really don’t relate to in any way,” he told Travel and Leisure.

Bourdain told the magazine that his experience was “incredibly moving and inspiring.”

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“I was treated with incredible kindness,” he said. “My expectations for what the people were like were very, very different.”

Bourdain, who dined with former President Obama on a previous episode of the show, has been harshly critical of President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE. He said that he would “absolutely f---ing not” dine with the president, and once faced major backlash after joking about poisoning him.

CNN said in a press release that in the episode "residents candidly discuss their staunch views on the second amendment, Donald Trump, life beyond the coal industry, and the reclamation of West Virginian cuisine."

The famous foodie said that the experience helped him view the 2016 election and political climate from the point of view of West Virginians. Trump won the state by more than 40 points in 2016.

“We do ourselves a real disservice — those of us on the left, those of us who see Trump as an anathema — to look at everybody who voted for him as an ideologue, a true believer, as a hick or a rube or somehow beneath us,” Bourdain told Travel and Leisure. “I want people of my political stripe to rethink, or accept the possibility that there’s another way of thinking.”