The day has finally (finally!) arrived.
Meghan McCain has officially departed The View, meaning we will no longer be subjected to her bad hair and daily reminders that she is, in fact, John McCain’s daughter.
“Thank you all so much again for the privilege and honor it has been for the past four years to work on this show,” McCain said, unconvincingly, in her departing message this morning. “It really has been incredible.”
.@MeghanMcCain shares her final words as co-host as she leaves @TheView: “Thank you all so much again for the privilege and honor it has been for the last four years to work on this show. It really has been incredible.”
“This has been a really wild ride.” https://t.co/kS1p3Jmn3v pic.twitter.com/N4QhKngBfZ
— The View (@TheView) August 6, 2021
She went on to thank her co-hosts– Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, and Sunny Hostin–for being so “incredible”, despite all the heated confrontations they had over the years, many of which ended with McCain making nasty personal attacks against her colleagues.
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“I will always cherish the time I spent with all of you,” McCain said.
Judging by the forced smiles on each of her co-stars’ faces, the feeling isn’t mutual.
Later, McCain’s mother, Cindy, was brought on to talk about what a “wonderful job” her daughter did on the show.
“I love her independence,” Cindy McCain praised. “Her dad would be proud of her.”
(Her dad, in case you forgot, was John McCain.)
“We knew she had the ability to make waves or deal with controversy,” Cindy McCain continued, “and he also wanted her to have an opportunity to really express herself. It was really his suggestion and his idea that she do this when offered the job.”
(Reminder: Sarah Palin was also John McCain’s idea.)
.@cindymccain reflects on her daughter @MeghanMcCain’s time on @TheView, telling us that Sen. John McCain would be “so proud” of their daughter.
“I wish her the best in whatever endeavor she chooses to do.” https://t.co/kS1p3Jmn3v pic.twitter.com/lHYi5yJE8s
— The View (@TheView) August 6, 2021
Meghan McCain said last month that she might delete her Twitter page when she leaves The View. We’ll let you know if/when that happens. No work yet on who will be replacing her when the show returns for its 25th season this fall.
In the meantime, here’s how people are responding to her departure…
Today is Meghan McCain’s LAST DAY on #TheView. The evil has been defeated! pic.twitter.com/E9VSQkn7PM
— Azula’s Therapist (@ohgodjohnwhy) August 6, 2021
When you realize it’s Meghan McCain’s last day on #theview pic.twitter.com/d0klMbss1u
— Justin Martindale (@justmartindale) August 6, 2021
Meghan McCain has OFFICIALLY departed #TheView. Now she can take on the full-time job for which she is most qualified: John McCain's daughter.
— Elgin Charles (@ElginCharles) August 6, 2021
The other cast members are like let’s just gets this show over and done with today #TheView pic.twitter.com/dafhphfdCl
— alwayz_izzy (@mommy_iza) August 6, 2021
Congratulations to The View for having it’s last bad hair day. #TheView
— Mayo (@MayoIsSpicyy) August 6, 2021
It's finally the last day of John McCain's daughter on #TheView pic.twitter.com/JCTPxkF0Qm
— Stephanie. (@qsteph) August 6, 2021
So glad you’re gone 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
— The Wise Wife (@WiseWivesRock) August 6, 2021
Co-hosts & staff as soon as Meghan’s out the door! #TheView pic.twitter.com/yRyENuJKd9
— Marty & mom ????????? (@colleengrott) August 6, 2021
Thank God today is finally Meghan McCain’s last day on #TheView. Spreading lies and propaganda does not make it another point of view.
— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) August 6, 2021
This is how most of us were during that segment ?? #TheView pic.twitter.com/OliDuFgonH
— Alyssa ??? (@8Lyssa7) August 6, 2021
Today is @MeghanMcCain’s last day on #TheView
I’m sure she will love it if you flooded her tweets with this gif of Kamala waving goodbye ???????? pic.twitter.com/Iy9HPNkUHH
— Lynx ? (@LustrousLynx) August 6, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Fahd
Now comes the time for the View and its audience to heal. I hope the show will find a way to recuperate from the damage she has done. It won’t be easy – talk about PTSD.
But first, deep breath!
plazaro1
What a poison, her father would be so ashamed he brought up that spoiled radicalized bitch. #BYEFelicia
TomG
Absolutely, you hit the nail on the head. She turned totally far right wing.
PoetDaddy
Hey, anybody out there who gives this bag of poison bile a job…? I will boycott you.
Mr. Stadnick
I was nice seeing a bigoted mother and daughter together on TV spouting bollocks!
Mack
Bye Karen.
Caddy4J
That entire show needs to go. Joy is an old negative windbag, Sunny Hostin think she knows it all and plays the race card/race baiting too much. You think everyone is poison that you disagree with or don’t like. The entire show is poison, but if anyone has to stay it should be Whoopi and an entirely new panel. These old hags are hateful, negative b-tches. The show turned to trash years ago when Barbara retired and sold her stake to ABC. The new producers have run it into the ground and it’s just not worth looking at anymore. When The negative, windbag and resident hag Joy returned I bolted. TRASH.. all the Karen’s should go.
BoomerMyles
Joy Sunny and Whoopi are my main reasons for watching.
Those ladies do a FANTSSTIC job.
So glad me-again and all her lies, disrespect, talking over other hosts and guests, whataboutisms, unsolicited advice to Dems, rudeness and constant reminder she’s John McCain’s daughter are GONE!
Cam
As usual, the right wing troll account comes on with one of it’s common screenames to deflect from Meghan McCain and attack Joy and the other women.
You aren’t slick.
BoomerMyles
Chances are very slim she’ll quit twitter.
She found a workaround as she is setting some of her tweets to “private” so only those she follows can respond.
Most of these private tweets are about her husband appearing on Fox News.
Anyway, no need to read her tweets anymore. So glad the Scottsdale princess is GONE.
Now she’s Virginia’s problem.
ScottOnEarth
Most people have some redeeming qualities, regardless of how dreadful they seem most of the time. Meghan McCain is not one of those people. She is truly a miserable, hateful, closed-minded, judgmental, entitled a-hole. I stopped watching The View from the day she started and will never patronize anything with her name on it. Good riddance, loser.
Cam
Watch how quickly she degenerates further and further into the right wing conspiracy bubble now that she doesn’t have to watch herself.
TomG
No great loss, hopefully she just disappear .