If you’re a regular Queerty reader then you know we’re not fans of John McCain’s daughter. She’s toxic and awful. But every now and then she surprises us by saying something not-so-awful. Like this morning on The View when she railed against the “MAGA sausage fest” for its obsession with “Cheeto Jesus.”
Meghan McCain was talking about equally toxic Liz Cheney, who is currently persona non grata among her Republican colleagues for having the gaul to say the 2020 election wasn’t stolen from Donald Trump and telling people to stop pushing “THE BIG LIE.”
The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system.
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) May 3, 2021
“The message that’s being sent by the highest member of Republicans in congress is that women like me and Liz Cheney, who refuse to bend the knee to President Trump, but still remain loyal Republicans, we don’t have a place in this party,” McCain said. “We’re worthless. We’re not worth fighting for to keep. It’s Kafkaesque to spin in this any other way.”
But she didn’t stop there.
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“I don’t understand it,” McCain continued. “It’s the most asinine politics I’ve seen in a really, really long time in a cacophony of asinine politics.”
She then said that if Cheney is ousted from her leadership position within the GOP, the party will continue bleeding college educated white women, which is the voting block that cost them the presidency as well as four senate senate seats in 2020.
“Go ahead in this sausage fest of MAGA up on Capitol Hill,” she ranted. “Pull her out and put another woman in who will do anything you want for President Trump. ‘The election wasn’t stolen,’ ‘He is Jesus,’ ‘It’s only Trumpism going forward.’ See where this lands us in the midterms. I’m absolutely furious.”
Watch.
.@MeghanMcCain: “The message that’s being sent by the highest member of Republicans in Congress is that women like me and Liz Cheney, who refuse to bend the knee to President Trump but still remain loyal Republicans — we don’t have a place in this party.” pic.twitter.com/9U8XqlaYUZ
— The View (@TheView) May 5, 2021
And now, the responses…
Meghan McCain calls Trump “Cheeto Jesus”. pic.twitter.com/lmKoDykgKe
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) May 5, 2021
A bizarro world when I support Meghan McCain and Liz Cheney in anything they say 🤗
— Monica Studer (@studerm) May 5, 2021
"Cheeto Jesus"
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Omg I'm laughing my ? off
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"MAGA sausage fest"
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Never watch the View or Meghan McCain (most clips of hers I disagree with) but this is funny!— GOP Dumpster Fire ? (@albano666) May 5, 2021
Maybe it's because this is the first time in a while that Meghan McCain isn't trying to recreate a hairstyle from 'The Fifth Element,' but her calling the MAGA cult leader "CHEETO JESUS" is pretty fucking hilarious.
— Jake Lobin (@JakeLobin) May 5, 2021
Her party has been anti-women since day one. This is not new.
— Just Me (@jerkurselfasoda) May 5, 2021
I never thought I’d say this, but @MeghanMcCain is absolutely right. pic.twitter.com/fHvtf6G7kz
— Ari Solomon (@VeganAri) May 5, 2021
What is happening?? I agree with something Meghan McCain said, and her hair looks normal!
— Barb V 💛🐝💛 (@barbvas) May 5, 2021
It concerns me when I agree with Meghan McCain
— Lisa ? (@LizzyTishP1230) May 5, 2021
I can't believe Meghan McCain called Trump "Cheeto Jesus". But hey…I approve ?
— ??Rowan Moon?? (@oXxRowanxXo) May 5, 2021
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Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
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BoomerMyles
Shocked she didn’t go into her reflexive whataboutism or her husband’s website right wing pro-trump talking points.
MissTerri
“for having the GAUL”
Is Queerty too cheap to hire a proofreader? Hi-LAR-ious!!!
Creamsicle
Yeah I noticed that too. This really is just a low tier gossip blog.
As for McCain, this isn’t impressive. Why do conservatives think they deserve brownie points for acknowledging reality, after aggressively pushing false narratives for decades? Y’all made your party into a dumpster fire yourselves. Have fun trying to get the crazies out after specifically courting them and grooming the tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists on right-wing AM radio.
Cam
As usual, the right wing troll under a new name is desperate to deflect from the topic, which is the Republicans kicking out the only woman in leadership because she called out Trump’s lie.
mailliw110
I’m pretty sure it’s spelt hilarious. You know…without the hyphens. You must be fun at your party of one.
Fahd
I think she’s trying to hold on to her gig on the view. Ana Navarro would have said it better, and Ana would be a a much better host on the View than this entitled brat who we are now supposed to believe is all Sandra- Day -O’Connor-country-club Republican. Laughable.
Pistolo
How can Queerty rightfully bash her for supporting Cheney one day and then praise how she does it in the next? Just for using a catchy, unclever term? Don’t you dare give one morsel of credit to that girl. She still stands for 90% of his policies and defends many of them on the regular and her husband is a despicable, homophobic and transphobic propagandist.
MissTerri
You are expecting any kind of day to day consistency from this “news” site?? Silly Queen!!!
Doug
“Sausage-fest?” What does that mean?
Yooper
According to Google Dictionary; “An event or group in which the majority of participants are male”.
Doug
Sounds good to me!
tjay7
Meghan compares herself to Liz Cheney? What political office has Meghan ever been elected to? She did the same thing comparing herself to AOC saying AOC was the punching bag for the right wing and she (Meghan) was the punching bag for the left. The Princess of Nepotism loves to elevate herself to the level of intelligent accomplished women without having their skills, smarts or achievements – other than being the zygote created by John McCain’s sperm.
Max
she complains about what to do all the time on the show.
perhaps as a conservative republican, Meghan should do something. sitting there, saying she won’t change sides to be a Democrat to save the republic, and feeling frustrated isn’t solving anything. in a prior episode, she wanted Biden to do something to meet with the Republicans and also convince them to take the vaccine. it’s thinking like that that says she and her pals cannot personally be bothered herself.
Dwight
When speaking about politics I think it’s the longest she’s gone without uttering “my father” or “John McCain”
Terrycloth
Whenever they get political on the show meghan thinks she know more than anyone else because of her father.. gee..my father liked to read medical books but that doesn’t make him a doctor
Cam
And of course tomorrow McCain will be screaming to defend the Republican party and pushing the latest right wing conspiracy from her husband’s website.