‘Bad Republican’ Meghan McCain calls Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner ‘funeral crashers’
Watch what happens when former “The View” host Meghan McCain blasts the Trump family, praises Rachel Maddow and expresses adoration for Hillary Clinton.
The daughter of late “Maverick” senator John McCain spoke to Bravo host Andy Cohen about her new book “Bad Republican,” where the conservative pundit once more showed a willingness to shoot from the hip, regardless the political leanings of her target. The questions were fast and furious Wednesday night and McCain was quick to the draw — particularly when it came to talking about Ivanka and Jared Trump showing up at her father’s 2018 funeral.
“They should never have come, they had no business being there, I remember seeing them and seeing her specifically,” McCain said. “They had no g-----n business being there and it’s something that still angers me, clearly.”
In her book, McCain calls the pair “funeral crashers.” She told Cohen it was her understanding that the power couple attended the ceremony at the National Cathedral memorial because it was an “event they wanted to go to.”
McCain also said that former President Donald Trump called her when her father was ailing and the former senator told his daughter she had to speak to the nation’s president, regardless of whether or not that person had been respectful to her family. According to McCain, Trump claimed a report that he’d mocked her war hero dad was “fake news.” She also said former First Lady Melania Trump got on the call to say “We love you,” which McCain didn’t buy.
But in the end, McCain said her family and their home state had the final say.
“You know, he lost Arizona, so all is well now,” McCain said.
Trump has repeatedly lied about losing Arizona in the 2020 election. He was the first GOP candidate in 20 years not to have not carried that state. Former Senator McCain won it for the Republicans in 2008, but lost the national election to Barack Obama.
McCain in August left her job at ABC’s “The View,” where she often outnumbered by the program’s more liberal panelists. But on Wednesday, the 36-year-old pundit gave respect to left-leaning MCNBC host Rachel Maddow.
“She’s a broadcasting genius,” McCain said. “She’s one of the greatest ever.”
According to McCain, Maddow came very well prepared when she was a guest on “The View.”
“There’s a reason she is who she is,” McCain said.
McCain also seemed to surprise Cohen by saying she had come to respect liberal icon Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
“I was very judgmental of Hillary Clinton before I was on ‘The View,’” McCain said. “I regret it.”
McCain said she’s had dinner with Clinton, who also attended her father’s funeral in Washington D.C. Once she became a public figure herself, McCain said she was better able to empathize for the former Democratic senator.
According to McCain, seeing Clinton in the crowd while she delivered her dad’s eulogy made her “feel good.”
To be clear, McCain’s appearance on “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen” doesn’t mean she’s running out to join the Democratic party. A night earlier, she appeared on Fox New’s “Hannity” to say that as a female right-winger, she was treated better at Fox than she was at ABC.
“I had a sisterhood at Fox that I lost at ‘The View,’” she said. “I know what women supporting women looks like, because I had it when I worked at Fox News.”
