People are not happy with Monét X Change and Nina West appearing on The View this week to celebrate Meghan McCain’s 35th birthday.
The queens stopped by to surprise McCain, who is John McCain’s daughter (in case anyone forgot), with a birthday cake, a pair of autographed pink rhinestone cowboy boots, and a RuPaul’s Drag Race statuette.
“We thought it would only be appropriate if we made you an official Ru girl and gave you your very own,” Nina said as she presented McCain with the coveted statuette.
Though she likes to think of herself as to be an LGBTQ ally (which, for the record, she is not), McCain’s husband, Ben Domenech, is an outspoken homophobe and the co-founder and publisher of the extreme right-wing blog The Federalist, which regularly posts anti-LGBTQ op-eds and transphobic hit pieces.
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And no matter how many times McCain uses the phrase “Yaaas, qween!” on The View, it cannot be ignored that, behind the scenes, she profits handsomely from the money Domenech makes from peddling hateful anti-LGBTQ propaganda, or the fact that she’s publicly defended his work on numerous occasions.
Oh, and let’s not forget the fact that she aligns herself with a political party that, just three years ago, adopted an official party platform that formally opposed same-sex marriage, endorsed anti-sodomy laws, declared transgender people shouldn’t have access to public restrooms, and called pornography a danger to society.
As McCain was presented with her statuette and declared an official Ru girl, at least she had the decency to say “I’m not worthy!” And Twitter seemed to agree…
Meghan McCain is married to a guy who runs a website that regularly publishes anti-trans rhetoric that actively endangers several of the queens who have been on the show but ok https://t.co/qZAWSdg9VG
— Will Kellogg (@Will_Kellogg) October 23, 2019
Nina West n Monét X Change doing a cutesy sketch with Meghan McCain on national TV, calling her a Ru Girl, n snapping back at fans for calling them on it? D i s a p p o i n t e d pic.twitter.com/jJlJJIh0Bo
— ✨kat✨ (@ntyrbbygrl) October 24, 2019
Monet X Change is really out here saying “not all republicans” to defend Meghan McCain, as if she’s some type of Ana Navarro style “republican” lmfao. Meghan McCain is out here advocating for many policies that harm marginalized groups and goes to bed every night with a bigot!
— Blue Ivy’s Au Pair (@MikeyTBH) October 25, 2019
Listening to Monet X Change trying to say that Meghan McCain is an LGBT ally on her insta… pic.twitter.com/zQ1E2fA3Vc
— Sami (@siinjiim) October 25, 2019
Monét X Change and Nina West were on the View w Meghan McCain, and Monet went to her IG story basically saying that McCain is an ally and we need to bridge the gap
Which I understand but, “Be nice until they like us” has never been an effective strategy
— ☕️ tranz kafka (@chiefqqueef) October 25, 2019
Yes it is relevant that Meghan McCain’s husband is a transphobe. If the idea is that she’s changing conservatives’ minds about LGBTQ people, she hasn’t even accomplished this task in her own home and clearly tolerates this.
— cancel ghoulture (@kamilumin) October 24, 2019
But this isn’t the first time that Monet and Nina have appeared alongside McCain on The View. Last June, they sat down with her to discuss LGBTQ issues for Pride Month, after which there was a similar backlash.
Watch Meghan be declared an official Ru Girl below. Or don’t.
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Georgeiv2
Add me to the pissed list , That woman is just ……. but no, my mother said if you cant say anything nice say nothing and I cant think of one nice thing to say !
Curtispsf
Meghan McCain has ONLY one thing going for her: Her father’s name, but not an iota of his integrity. Be gone, girl. I banish you to Whoopey-Ville where the only other resident is Whoopy Goldberg, another entitled bitch. Poof ! /|\
Asphyxia 8
Despicable deplorable!
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
I love Nina’s hair-do (wig). It looks like some tasty icing. And Monet looks fabulous. You have to see this for what it is. The cast of The View wanted to honor Megan for her birthday and the easiest way to do it was dig up two drag queens who NEED the publicity. You see girls, thats how this whole thing works. Megan is loved by a lot of people who know all along she did not believe the garbage script she was reading over on Outnumbered (the female paneled talk show over on Fox) but was breaking into television and used that particular entry way. Lighten up.
cynicalsteve
Bitch can suck it.
Tombear
I am against anything that violates my civil rights as a gay Veteran. I have to respect a man who spent four years being tortured because he loved his country. His daughter claims to be an alli with the gay community so tell me what has she done to advance my civil rights and my good friends rights as well!
jkb
It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.
Thad
But…think about it. How else can we change hearts and minds?
russellhm
I would applaud making her an official RUE Girl, meaning we rue the day she was born. She redefines
annoying. Her father, were he still with us, would pass a law making birth control retroactive. Now, we know she has the financial wherewithal to be thin. But perhaps she likes portly as her husband is borderline obese and they both may have a penchant for overweight folk. But her mother and father were never that way.
DarkZephyr
OMG I am so damned sick of cancel culture, it makes me sick. Everybody wants to police and punish everybody. I am not fond of Megan McCain but A) she isn’t homophobic and B) they should be able to befriend whoever the hell they want to.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
We gays have a tendency to forget just what bullying is. Ok, they have a friend who is a member of the GOP but why do they have to desert her because many of you whom never got off your rear ends to try to do something with you lives demand she be ostracized? Brave girls on The View. You are one of the most gay friendliest shows on network television and that was smart of you to give the two drag girls the publicity they deserve.
justgeo
Why she is just a nasty do nothing entitled STUPID yes I mean stupid white porky girl with 0 substance or even cleverness. Sometimes I am sure her stylists hate her a lot.
sfmike64
She’s only famous because of her name. Otherwise, she’s neither interesting nor terribly bright. Go get a real job, honey. Oh right you don’t have to because your Mom is rich from beer distribution.
Cam
McCain sees LGBT people as accessories, but she is using her trust fund to fund the hate and homo-phobia her husband’s site puts out every day. She is the opposite of an ally.
As an extra, she was offered her job on TV coincidentally when her father was on the committee that oversaw telecommunications in America. So yeah…
Cam
Wow, Queerty screened out a comment of mine. I went back, copied and pasted it, the only change I made was to hyphenate the word homo-phobia and the comment went through.
Why would your algorithm screen out that word?!?!?!
Terrycloth
Megan should take a cue from whoopi who has attended too many lgbtq parties fundraisers to mention , gives time and money. .Whoopi is more than just pro lgbtq..Megan is all talk.she claims she has lots of gay friends which must really get under her husbands homophobic skin
Chipper
JUST another republican that can not tell the truth. A lie is told by liars. And most republicans are hateful bigots. Most would not know the truth because it is so engrained in them. Lie. . . Lie. . . Lie. . . . Lie..