The former president’s niece publicly called out Meghan McCain for ducking her appearance on “The View.”
On her final Monday as host of The View, Meghan McCain was conspicuously absent from the show’s big interview with Mary Trump.
McCain spent the first part of Monday’s episode brazenly attacking comedian Kathy Griffin, who had just announced a lung cancer diagnosis and was likely undergoing surgery at that moment, for jokingly speculating about her friend Clay Aiken’s sexuality before he came out as gay more than a decade ago.
“I don’t like her. I’m never going to like her,” McCain said, demanding an apology from the comedian before comparing her to ISIS for posting the infamous photo in which she held up a Trump mask covered in fake blood.
But the show’s sole conservative was nowhere to be seen when the former president’s niece Mary Trump—promoting her newest book, The Reckoning—joined the show around halfway through the broadcast. Her noticeable absence went unremarked upon until the very end of the interview when Mary Trump called McCain out directly for not having the “courage” to debate her on live TV.
After hammering Donald Trump and his Republican allies for perpetrating a second “big lie” about the Jan. 6 insurrection and highlighting just how much blame her uncle deserves for “the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans” due to his mishandling of the coronavirus, Mary Trump zoomed out.
“One thing Donald proved is that using racism as a platform was successful, and I think that’s why we see so much strife in this country,” she said. “And we need to continue having the kinds of conversations about race and gender that you have.”
“It’s a shame that your colleague didn’t have the courage to come on and have this conversation with me,” Mary Trump continued, making it abundantly obvious who she was talking about. “But I appreciate that you were all willing to take up these very difficult subjects because racism, in my view, is at the heart of everything that’s wrong in 21st century America.”
What followed was an interminably awkward pause from the rest of the co-hosts before Whoopi Goldberg wrapped up the segment by plugging their guest’s new book.
The last time Mary Trump came face-to-face with McCain on The View just over a year ago, she pointedly shut down the conservative pundit for accusing her of “cashing in” on her family name. “Well, you’re entirely entitled to your opinion,” she said with a smile at the time.
A few hours after the broadcast ended, McCain posted her not-so-subtle retort on Twitter. And like Mary Trump, she declined to name names: “There is no ‘good’ Trump family member to me. Continue to wish they would all just leave me and my entire family the fuck alone.”
There is no “good” Trump family member to me.
Continue to wish they would all just leave me and my entire family the fuck alone.— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) August 2, 2021
This woman needs to get a good psychiatrist to see why she is trading on the family name – do you feel insignificant????? What have you done in your life time that made a difference to anybody?
Why even give Mary Trump a platform to spout her hatred and jealously. The book will , undoubtedly, be total lies. If it is 15 minutes of fame she is searching for—the kind of fame she is getting, she is going to wish she had behaved.
Mary Trump is a loser and angry because of her father’s will. This woman is obviously one of those people that everything is someone else’s fault. Whoever is giving this loser book deals is as pathetic as she is and nobody bought her first book why have her write a second. I’m not a Megan McCain fan but I can see why she wouldn’t waste her time debating someone who is a complete liar.
Mary Trump is a worthless piece of human waste.She is nothing but trash 🗑️ try to live off the coat -tail of Trump and his family.
Never did like Megan McCain, she sounds like an idiot on the view. Mary is telling the truth and many trumpers don’t like it.
Spoken like a true liberal. I don’t like Megan McCain either but Mary Trump is trash and a liar why should Megan waste her time? Mary is a loser who was cut of her fathers will and she’s throwing a fit. I can’t imagine what trash your child has to be to cut her out of your will but Mary could be the poster child for it.
God Bless Mary Trump
So you think lying trash should be blessed?? Typical liberal just because you don’t like someone you want anything someone like Mary makes up to be true.
I Think Meghan McCain Is a Coward
Funny I think Mary Trump is the coward such a loser can’t get a job so she sits around making up lies for a paycheck. The only things sadder are those that buy this garbage and liberals who want this to be true yet ignore Hunter’s, Joe’s, Kamala’s, Shiff’s, Nancy’s crimes, pathetic!!!
I Think Tara Setmayer, Gretchen Carlson, Mary Katharine Ham, S. E. Cupp, Ana Navarro, Greta Van Susteren, Ainsley Earhardt, Kristen Soltis Anderson, Juliet Huddy all are Good choice for replaced Meghan McCain for The View 25th season
I Think Meghan McCain was the Piers Morgan of The View
I Think Mary Trump should be giving Presidential Medal of Freedom
McCain is just as bad as Mary Trump, both losers.