Meghan McCain kicked off her final week on The View by attacking Kathy Griffin, who just announced she has cancer, and then chickening out and signing off the Zoom call before a panel interview with Mary Trump.
John McCain’s daughter was inexplicably absent from the show’s big interview with Trump, even though she was there for the Hot Topics segment of the episode, during which she attacked comedian Kathy Griffin, who was undergoing surgery for lung cancer at that very moment, for a homophobic joke she made roughly 20 years ago.
“I don’t like her,” McCain said. “I’m never going to like her.”
Um @kathygriffin is having cancer surgery right now https://t.co/pXVfSadr3F
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) August 2, 2021
But when the time came for Trump’s interview later in the hour, McCain was suddenly MIA.
Trump was there to promote her new book, The Reckoning. McCain’s noticeable absence went unremarked for much of the interview until Trump eventually called her out for lacking the “courage” to debate on live TV.
Trump was speaking about how Donald Trump made racism a cornerstone of his platform and that it was successful in winning over Republican voters.
“It’s a shame that your colleague didn’t have the courage to come on and have this conversation with me,” she said, referring to McCain. “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.”
Mary Trump, the only honest and decent Trump, calls out Meghan McCain for ditching her segment on ‘The View’. pic.twitter.com/sqYX6rKr3E
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) August 2, 2021
There was an awkward pause before Whoopi Goldberg wrapped up the segment by plugging Trump’s new book and the show cut to commercial.
It’s still unclear why McCain wasn’t there for Trump’s interview, but it could have something to do with the fact that the last time Mary was there, she reminded Meghan that she was “cashing in” on her family name, to which John McCain’s daughter replied, “Well, you’re entirely entitled to your opinion.”
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Cam
Meghan McCain gets terrified if she thinks people will be there with facts and aren’t afraid to use them.
McCain will shout out the latest B.S. her husband has said around the dinner table, but then she freezes if people bring up facts that destroy her comment because after her first outburst Meghan never has anything in depth to back up her comments.
Of COURSE she’s terrified to face Mary Trump.
TomG
Which is a bit funny since McCain always said how much she disliked Donald Trump, one would think she’d stick around. But I presume that now, since she’s gone over to the far right and is no longer a moderate repukelican, it’s different being she’s now a Trump minion.
BaltoSteve
I honestly don’t think she is scared or terrified. I think it is more cold and calculating than that. Everything she does is to promote her own conservative victimhood. She can’t spin the narrative to support that by interviewing Mary. And her not doing it because of that is much more on brand and makes her even more of a non-recyclable individual than she has already proven to be.
GayEGO
Well, Meghan does not want to get caught with the facts that will not backup her comments
barryaksarben
I LOVE MARY TRUMP. SHE is smart and decent something McCain will never be. Kathy Griffin gets a pass on some old bad joke cuz she IS a comedian and she HAS DONES tons of good things for the GLTBQ community while McCain talks and talks about her support for us but has NEVER done a damned thing in fact to stop her party from attacking us. Mary burned her last time but good.
GrizzleyMichael
After that pain in the ass bitch is gone. Please don’t switch one bitch with another bitch
Fahd
Mary Trump would a great replacement for Meghan. (Is anyone listening, show runners?) Btw, I like that Mary Trump referred to Meghan as “your colleague” rather than naming her.
Caddy4J
I really don’t think Meghan McCain is afraid to go up against or hide from anyone. If she can go up against a U.S. President, Mary Trump is small change. And talking about the pot calling the kettle black!! After 20 years, Mary Trump crawled from under her rock, and started cashing in on the family name. She’s a greedy, spiteful and hateful person, and everybody has fawned over her like a bunch of sheep. Especially the Media. I don’t believe a word this hag is spewing.
Cam
Awww, the right wing troll account can try to steal my name, but it can’t create enough new screenames to hide who it is.
Breaking out this one here? You’ve already been caught using this one.
But it’s adorable you thought you could defend Meghan. She chickened out, and you had to run to defend her……because you know that’s exactly what happened. Just like most Republicans, she doesn’t have the ability to respond to an intelligent interviewee.
cuteguy
The GQP are scared of ppl who actually use common sense. But then again she “supports lgbtq” bc she says so (rolling my eyes)
twomen4u
Can only wish Friday was already here!
Kangol2
Dr. Mary Trump runs intellectual rings about Meghan McEntitlement, so the right-wing heiress made herself scarce! Mary Trump also was right on target about her deranged uncle Don the Con, who, as she rightly assessed, suffers from “antisocial personality disorder,” i.e., he’s a psychopath!
stanhope
I’ll focus on the positive…that miserable, nasty, self important, delusional heifer is leaving the show…i can watch it again.
humble charlie
There is so mulch wrong about Meghan McCain, and that is why I’ll miss her.
A good replacement would be Anita Bryant’s pulpy orange juiced body with two heads being that of Meghan McCain and Elizabeth Hasslebeck.
I love Kathy Gryphon and hope she gets well. I love her books. And I loved the poster of her holding the bloody mask. I think it predicted what that maniac was going to do. How many are dead now from the virus because of that birdbrain? And I think Anderson Cooper was, is, and always will be a big shit for disavowing her. What a thin grey turd.
BoomerMyles
Clay Aiken promptly tweeted a pic of him and Kathy together thanking her for helping with a fundraiser for his (un)successful Congressional run.
Meghan has never helped fundraise for any LGBT candidate.
Instead she funds her husband’s website The Federalist anti trans platforms and specifically calls out Queerty as “bullsh*t”.
lacrosse72
I am counting the days until she is gone. I. Hate. Her.
BoylesqueBubble
God. There’s a LOT going on in this post! Meghan is chickensh*t, Mary Trump would have shredded her, Meghan says something about a “homophobic” comment that Kathy Griffin allegedly made and that she hates her, and our resident gas-huffing troll-keeper is doing his usual cut and paste comments of accusations of Republican defending. ? Meghan honey as far as the homophobia, the call is coming from inside the house: the work your husband publishes perpetuates it. You tolerate it and benefit financially, so you don’t get to call out homophobia when Kathy has done more for us than you ever will. Oh wait, i think I deflected somewhere and must be defending a Republican.
Cam
Troll lesson #2.
Sweetie, if you’re going to try to rehab one of your older screenames, probably not a good idea to let your anger/obsession with the guy calling you out, bleed into the comment.
But it was a good effort. Well, since I spotted it in about 5 seconds, let me take that back. No, it wasn’t.
BoylesqueBubble
@Cam I’ll break my promise of not answering you, but someone already called you out as a liar (Heywood Jablowme) by doing a simple Google search of my screen name and the webpage as your paranoid rages against trolls, mine has nothing to do with anything you’ve accused me of. I also FULLY would be fine if someone someone listed my ISP and screen name (I’ll give a head start, I live in a Portland, Oregon) and compare it to ALL of the other accounts you think are multiples by one single person. I don’t care, I have nothing to hide. So bring it, bitch! Expose me, find me, do whatever. So there’s no rehabilitation of my screen name as a commenter here as I’ve been commenting (and calling out Graham) for about a year and a half. By all means think whatever you want, try and school me, do whatever you need to make you feel better. It’s a s*it website to begin with and the fact you are just so overly unhinged over commenters is hilarious. You’re half the entertainment because everyone here can’t stand you, and you’re probably single for the exact same reasons. So, smoke me out of my troll cave, bring it, expose me, I would LOVE it! Have fun arguing with the other accounts you’re obsessed over. Keep being crazy. Queerty will just eventually ban you, and then YOU will have to make a new troll account yourself. Love ya, ya sh*t stain!
Cam
Isn’t it amazing how Meghan reserves her greatest anger for people like Kathy Griffin, who mocked the man who regularly attacked Meghan’s father.
She is fully into the right wing conspiracy Trump worshiping side. She is now all about attacking anybody who goes after Trump or presents facts.
BoylesqueBubble
Just like you attack anyone and everyone who doesn’t agree with you. Sounds familiar.
SPEEDOSWIMMER
Henry Cavill makes me MOIST!
OhPlease
Have any of you ever dealt with politicians, political thinks tanks and their “media plants?” She was recruited and hired to be incendiary, they got their money’s worth and a lot of this is a big, fat, paycheck-driven scam. Some of it relates to further polarizing the public to exclusively retain balance between increasingly radical DNC and GOP candidates without allowing third party candidates to be elected. Ever wonder why these political designees always come from Stanford, Columbia, and a handful of other schools with military and governmental contracts related to psy warfare and certain other professions? All of this shit is scripted, you have to have a SAG card to appear on those propaganda outlets, which is exactly what they are. Mary Trump’s book deal was open knowledge in Florida newsrooms by mid-2012-before he even announced his intent to run-which reeks of bullshit to start with. Eric’s deal was discussed in my presence by two editors in that timeframe, and they were pretty well versed on what was going to be “disclosed.” The rumor is she was offered contracts with a couple of conservative outlets making more than she does on the View in 2022.
nitejonboy
Thank god it’s Friday and the bitch will be gone after today…hope after she’s gone the ladies all reveal how they really feel about her.