Meghan McCain prompted the entire internet to roll its eyes over the weekend after she slammed Hunter Biden for benefiting from having a famous politician father.
In her regular column in the Daily Mail, McCain blasted Hunter, son of President Joe Biden, for recently cutting a deal with prosecutors. Hunter has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors relating to non-payment of taxes and a charge of dishonesty on a firearms form. He will likely avoid jail time.
President Biden has always shown support for his son. Asked last week by reporters about the plea deal, Biden Sr merely said, “I’m very proud of my son.”
Hunter was reportedly in attendance at a White House event on Thursday night held in honor of India’s Prime Minister. Also in attendance was Attorney General Merrick Garland. The presence of both men at the same White House function, in the same week as news of Hunter’s plea deal emerged, enraged McCain, daughter of the late Republican Senator John McCain.
“We’re dealing with an elitist scumbag, the ultimate product of nepotism,” McCain said of “America’s disgraced First Son”, with no trace of irony.
She went on to list what she perceived as Hunter’s many failings and alleged dodgy business dealings.
“Hunter is still trading on his family name,” McCain said.
“He’s selling artwork to anonymous buyers for hundreds of thousands of dollars. And we all know the only reason that he can command those prices is because his dad is president.”
Coincidentally, Meghan retained her own maiden name when she married husband Ben Domenech in 2017— but that’s probably nothing to do with the status of the McCain brand, right?
Here are a few responses on Twitter.
Meghan McCain calls Hunter Biden “an elitist scumbag, the ultimate product of nepotism”. Interesting, coming from an elitist scumbag, the ultimate product of nepotism. pic.twitter.com/hZ3sp2mZEG
President Joe Biden was one of the first people to call you and tell you what a great man your father was after he passed on. On cable news he walked over to you so you could cry on his shoulder. It saddens me you didn't inherit your dad's grace and willingness to speak the… pic.twitter.com/c6nowFxoQF
— Tara Dublin ((isn’t paying for this)) ?????? (@taradublinrocks) June 24, 2023
If McCain was fazed by the reaction to her latest outpouring of bile, she didn’t show it. On Twitter, she tweeted, “Thank you all for getting my recent @DailyMail column trending and spending your day talking about me. I’m taking care of my babies and don’t have time to get into petty back and forths on Twitter.”
Thank you all for getting my recent @DailyMail column trending and spending your day talking about me.
I’m taking care of my babies and don’t have time to get into petty back and forths on Twitter.
McCain offered her own take on why the box office figures were disappointing.
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I know you don’t mean that. You’re projecting your misery and unhappiness on a complete stranger. I hope you get the help you need and stop putting vile rhetoric out in the world.
Although I don’t support murd€r, why are defending a woman who hates lgbtq. You need help bc you’re either a self hating lgbtq person yourself with little to no self esteem, or you’re a self hating GQP troll with nothing better to do than visit lgbtq sites. Either way, you’re sick
You don’t realize just how much media props up people like Bill O’Reilly, Meghan, McCain, etc… until they are off TV and nobody cares about them. Meghan’s tweet trying to be sarcastic got less than 600 tweets, about the same number of Books she sold.
The View would have had you believe that she had millions of fans, but since she left the View, the only time she trended was because she made such a colossal fool of herself. Same with Bill O’Reilly, the second he was off the air, nobody cared what he had to say.
Republican media executives are the only reason we ever heard of these folks.
Meghan McCain lashes out like this because it drives the only coverage she can get. Her complete and utter lack of irony and self-awareness is blinding/deafening/dumbing, etc.
Queerty knows that Meghan riles up the neolib gays. She’s basically a drag queen. And braintrusts like Dave Matthews up above click the story and then complain about it while giving Queerty unique page views in the process. And that’s why Meghan remains relevant to Queerty. As people mentioned, her last book only sold 400 copies. As a former viewer of the View, I appreciated Meghan for sass, her tendency to put the panel of limousine liberals into the perspective places, and lack of self-awareness. It made for compelling television. The current version of the View is like watching paint dry.
Hey decraps, Meghan doesn’t rile up the liberals. She doesn’t dismantle liberal ideas, she screams over people who disagree, and her support of LGBT people is all pretty feckless, she still votes for anti-gay candidates.
Alyssa Farah is so much smarter and accomplished than Meghan. She can make more claims than “my father was John McCain.” I disagree with her a lot but she’s still more thoughtful than Meghan “It’s so hard to be a rich, white daughter of a conservative millionaire politician” McCain.
That’s your interpretation. From where I sit (alongside the recent ‘liberal’ NY Times OP-ED writer), Farah Griffin mostly agrees with the rest of the panel. And that’s why you like her, Dave Matthews! From what we’ve seen with Jed Bila and McCain, anything that remotely goes against LGBTQ ideology is flagged by Abagail Disney. Their views have noticeably shifted post-View. Same with Megyn Kelly on NBC. And hey, Fox News was a mouthpiece for the Trump administration at one point. As a former music journalist, I can see that the networks do have an explicit bias. Conservative, liberal, etc. ABC News has a liberal bias and that’s why you love getting spoon-fed nuggets in their little Disney echo chamber. Same with my dad and Fox News. It’s no different.
Ivanka Trump landed three Chinese patents after a state dinner with Xi at Mar-a-Lago. Once again, the optics of the Biden administration are abysmal. Here we have the same people criticizing the Trump administration for letting his nepo-babies run rampant at state dinners partaking in the same behaviors. Hypocrisy is flying around fast and furious with the story. Meghan McCain, the neoliberals, the Trump people.
Yes. She used her position in her father’s government to make money. Hunter got a job because of his father’s position but his father wouldn’t help him. Terrible.
Are the text messages damning? If there’s a modicum of truth to the text messages, they’re pretty much on the same playing field. And I’ll tell you another thing, Dave Matthews. Your side has cried fake news for years. Gradually, as more information has trickled out, that has shown not to be the case. Weren’t you the same troll who tut-tutted about partisan politics warping the view of facts? I might be getting you confused with the other idiot.
Republicans keep claiming they have some kind of smoking gun and it never goes anywhere. They hounded this man until they got 2 misdemeanor tax charges and lying on a gun permit. It’s over, leave this man alone and concentrate on you own terrible families.
Oh, please. Here’s the world’s smallest violin. This person has sex with underage sex workers. When Gaetz did that, it was so very wrong. Anyone with half a brain can see you’re lapping up the Kool-Aid, Dave Matthews.
Hunter was accepted to Yale Law School, became his father’s deputy campaign manager, was offered a plum job with a bank holding company that was one of his father’s largest campaign contributors. WHEN IVANKA DID THAT, YOU LOST YOUR POOP, Dave. Jon Stewart called Biden’s spot on the board of a Ukrainian energy firm “corruption straight up off the bat.” JON FRIGGIN’ STEWART. Not a right-wing talking head. Jon Stewart.
Keep pumping up your conspiracy theories. The fact is, Meghan’s a know-nothing nepo-baby who is hypocritically calling someone else a nepo-baby. She’s not a great thinker, you’re delusional to think she is.
You don’t care comment about Hunter parading naked in front of his girlfriend’s kid? And again, this has started off as ‘conspiracy theories’ that have gradually become accepted by mainstream media after careful examination. That’s why you have people like Jon Stewart speaking up. I admitted McCain’s hypocrisy along with the others. Did you even bother to read sentences before spewing your reflexive vitriol? I never said McCain was a great thinker. As a viewer of The View, I appreciated that she regularly derailed the Democratic party talking points spewed by the rest of the panel. Much like Fox News with the Trump administration. Dave Matthews, I realize you like to paint me in boxes. I am an independent voter who will not be voting Democrat ever again in my adult life. Cornel West appeals to me. The No Labels party appeals to me. I could see myself voting Republican. I took a political ideology quiz and my two ideologies were Green Party and Constitution Party.
I don’t care that Hunter Biden was nude. It has nothing to do with anything and it’s just conservatives being hypocritical. This has nothing to do with Joe Biden’s administration.
Also, decraps, shut up about you supposedly caring about children. Not only do you not protect children from guns, you party supporters Jim Jordan who protected an actual pedophile.
You don’t care about Hunter being nude in front of a teenager but do care about Matt Gaetz. How does that leap in logic make sense in your brain, Dave Matthews? For most people, that doesn’t compute. And again, this is a second reminder. This is not my party. I might vote Republican. I might vote for the No Label Party or Green Party. Maybe the Constitution Party. I’m not sure yet.
Dave, I view you as a typical privileged liberal. You’re far removed from the plight of the working-class people your party purports to represent. You’d rather have drag bunches than get your hands dirty. The name fits you. You’re as white and privileged as they come. Right up there with the McCains.
You know nothing about me. You’re a typical troll. You’re a liar and you somehow think Meghan dismantled left-wing talking points, which she never did. She was always a rich, whiny white girl. If that’s what you want to be, go for it, but it’s not something to be proud of.
Meghan is just jealous that her father wasn’t president. Is it no wonder that her mom Cindy views Megan as the “abortion that got away”. Meghan’s “view” was extinguished when Whoopi and Joy sent her “view” to the unemployment line
Meghan McCain didn’t even have an iota of talent when she got her “The View” gig, and she’s proved that even that non-existent iota is long, long gone.
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m
Just hope she kills herself, sooner than later
ScottOnEarth
I know you don’t mean that. You’re projecting your misery and unhappiness on a complete stranger. I hope you get the help you need and stop putting vile rhetoric out in the world.
cuteguy
@ScottOnDrugs
Although I don’t support murd€r, why are defending a woman who hates lgbtq. You need help bc you’re either a self hating lgbtq person yourself with little to no self esteem, or you’re a self hating GQP troll with nothing better to do than visit lgbtq sites. Either way, you’re sick
Cam
You don’t realize just how much media props up people like Bill O’Reilly, Meghan, McCain, etc… until they are off TV and nobody cares about them. Meghan’s tweet trying to be sarcastic got less than 600 tweets, about the same number of Books she sold.
The View would have had you believe that she had millions of fans, but since she left the View, the only time she trended was because she made such a colossal fool of herself. Same with Bill O’Reilly, the second he was off the air, nobody cared what he had to say.
Republican media executives are the only reason we ever heard of these folks.
Kangol2
Meghan McCain lashes out like this because it drives the only coverage she can get. Her complete and utter lack of irony and self-awareness is blinding/deafening/dumbing, etc.
dbmcvey
Meghan’s great strength has never been being self aware.
jerjn
And this woman is relevant because… ???
dbmcvey
The conservative trolls on this site bring her up all the time.
decrans
Queerty knows that Meghan riles up the neolib gays. She’s basically a drag queen. And braintrusts like Dave Matthews up above click the story and then complain about it while giving Queerty unique page views in the process. And that’s why Meghan remains relevant to Queerty. As people mentioned, her last book only sold 400 copies. As a former viewer of the View, I appreciated Meghan for sass, her tendency to put the panel of limousine liberals into the perspective places, and lack of self-awareness. It made for compelling television. The current version of the View is like watching paint dry.
dbmcvey
Hey decraps, Meghan doesn’t rile up the liberals. She doesn’t dismantle liberal ideas, she screams over people who disagree, and her support of LGBT people is all pretty feckless, she still votes for anti-gay candidates.
Alyssa Farah is so much smarter and accomplished than Meghan. She can make more claims than “my father was John McCain.” I disagree with her a lot but she’s still more thoughtful than Meghan “It’s so hard to be a rich, white daughter of a conservative millionaire politician” McCain.
decrans
That’s your interpretation. From where I sit (alongside the recent ‘liberal’ NY Times OP-ED writer), Farah Griffin mostly agrees with the rest of the panel. And that’s why you like her, Dave Matthews! From what we’ve seen with Jed Bila and McCain, anything that remotely goes against LGBTQ ideology is flagged by Abagail Disney. Their views have noticeably shifted post-View. Same with Megyn Kelly on NBC. And hey, Fox News was a mouthpiece for the Trump administration at one point. As a former music journalist, I can see that the networks do have an explicit bias. Conservative, liberal, etc. ABC News has a liberal bias and that’s why you love getting spoon-fed nuggets in their little Disney echo chamber. Same with my dad and Fox News. It’s no different.
Mr. Stadnick
The only place I ever see this silly cows name mentioned in on this website,
FreddieW
This ridiculous story is roughly equivalent to picking Charlie Sheen over Jamie Lee Curtis in a contest of Hollywood “nepo babies”.
dbmcvey
No, the hypocrisy makes it a story.
decrans
Ivanka Trump landed three Chinese patents after a state dinner with Xi at Mar-a-Lago. Once again, the optics of the Biden administration are abysmal. Here we have the same people criticizing the Trump administration for letting his nepo-babies run rampant at state dinners partaking in the same behaviors. Hypocrisy is flying around fast and furious with the story. Meghan McCain, the neoliberals, the Trump people.
dbmcvey
Yes. She used her position in her father’s government to make money. Hunter got a job because of his father’s position but his father wouldn’t help him. Terrible.
decrans
Are the text messages damning? If there’s a modicum of truth to the text messages, they’re pretty much on the same playing field. And I’ll tell you another thing, Dave Matthews. Your side has cried fake news for years. Gradually, as more information has trickled out, that has shown not to be the case. Weren’t you the same troll who tut-tutted about partisan politics warping the view of facts? I might be getting you confused with the other idiot.
dbmcvey
Republicans keep claiming they have some kind of smoking gun and it never goes anywhere. They hounded this man until they got 2 misdemeanor tax charges and lying on a gun permit. It’s over, leave this man alone and concentrate on you own terrible families.
dbmcvey
Your side kept coming up with nonexistent proof.
decrans
Oh, please. Here’s the world’s smallest violin. This person has sex with underage sex workers. When Gaetz did that, it was so very wrong. Anyone with half a brain can see you’re lapping up the Kool-Aid, Dave Matthews.
decrans
Hunter was accepted to Yale Law School, became his father’s deputy campaign manager, was offered a plum job with a bank holding company that was one of his father’s largest campaign contributors. WHEN IVANKA DID THAT, YOU LOST YOUR POOP, Dave. Jon Stewart called Biden’s spot on the board of a Ukrainian energy firm “corruption straight up off the bat.” JON FRIGGIN’ STEWART. Not a right-wing talking head. Jon Stewart.
dbmcvey
Keep pumping up your conspiracy theories. The fact is, Meghan’s a know-nothing nepo-baby who is hypocritically calling someone else a nepo-baby. She’s not a great thinker, you’re delusional to think she is.
decrans
You don’t care comment about Hunter parading naked in front of his girlfriend’s kid? And again, this has started off as ‘conspiracy theories’ that have gradually become accepted by mainstream media after careful examination. That’s why you have people like Jon Stewart speaking up. I admitted McCain’s hypocrisy along with the others. Did you even bother to read sentences before spewing your reflexive vitriol? I never said McCain was a great thinker. As a viewer of The View, I appreciated that she regularly derailed the Democratic party talking points spewed by the rest of the panel. Much like Fox News with the Trump administration. Dave Matthews, I realize you like to paint me in boxes. I am an independent voter who will not be voting Democrat ever again in my adult life. Cornel West appeals to me. The No Labels party appeals to me. I could see myself voting Republican. I took a political ideology quiz and my two ideologies were Green Party and Constitution Party.
Fname Optional Lname
Comparing Hunter Biden to any of the Trump children is laughable, even if it were Tiffany.
dbmcvey
I don’t care that Hunter Biden was nude. It has nothing to do with anything and it’s just conservatives being hypocritical. This has nothing to do with Joe Biden’s administration.
dbmcvey
Also, decraps, shut up about you supposedly caring about children. Not only do you not protect children from guns, you party supporters Jim Jordan who protected an actual pedophile.
decrans
You don’t care about Hunter being nude in front of a teenager but do care about Matt Gaetz. How does that leap in logic make sense in your brain, Dave Matthews? For most people, that doesn’t compute. And again, this is a second reminder. This is not my party. I might vote Republican. I might vote for the No Label Party or Green Party. Maybe the Constitution Party. I’m not sure yet.
Mister P
Your point is not made well at all. Give it up girl.
decrans
It was also made by liberals on The View today. Tell Sunny Hostin on Twitter.
dbmcvey
decraps often sees himself as Meghan McCain.
decrans
In some regards, yes. Meghan was effective at dismantling left-wing talking points moreso than the current bobblehead replacement.
dbmcvey
You certainly share her delusion.
Remember when she said she didn’t know about anything that happened before she was born? That’s you.
decrans
Dave, I view you as a typical privileged liberal. You’re far removed from the plight of the working-class people your party purports to represent. You’d rather have drag bunches than get your hands dirty. The name fits you. You’re as white and privileged as they come. Right up there with the McCains.
dbmcvey
You know nothing about me. You’re a typical troll. You’re a liar and you somehow think Meghan dismantled left-wing talking points, which she never did. She was always a rich, whiny white girl. If that’s what you want to be, go for it, but it’s not something to be proud of.
LeBlevsez
Disappointments aside, Joe Biden loves and likes his son. Cindy McCain loves and dislikes her daughter. Both seem like good parents.
Jack
Cindy McCain is still trying to get an abortion.
cuteguy
Meghan is just jealous that her father wasn’t president. Is it no wonder that her mom Cindy views Megan as the “abortion that got away”. Meghan’s “view” was extinguished when Whoopi and Joy sent her “view” to the unemployment line
Kangol2
Meghan McCain didn’t even have an iota of talent when she got her “The View” gig, and she’s proved that even that non-existent iota is long, long gone.