Meghan McCain is once again taking a jab at The View, sharply criticizing the show’s cohosts over their handling of Vice President J.D. Vance’s interview on June 16.
Taking to X shortly after the episode aired, the former cohost accused the panel of failing to maintain basic broadcast standards during Vance’s appearance on the show. “My biggest takeaway from Vance on The View is honestly how s***** and undisciplined the hosts STILL ARE,” McCain wrote in part.
“After all these years they still get basics facts wrong, flub easy questions and can’t get through a segment without yelling at each other,” she added, likely referring to a particularly heated exchange between moderator Whoopi Goldberg and cohost Ana Navarro. (There was visible tension at the table when Goldberg abruptly interrupted Navarro, who was trying to ask a follow-up question after the former attempted to push the show to a commercial break.)
While McCain had only criticism for the hosts, she offered up praise for Vance’s performance on the show, concluding her X post, “Vance handled it all very well.”
The politician, who smiled while Goldberg was scolding Navarro, remained composed throughout the interview, even occasionally joking around with the cohosts.
At one point, he attempted to lighten the mood by quipping that his team had warned him the typically left-leaning panel was secretly filled with MAGA Republicans. However, he also avoided multiple political questions and defended Donald Trump’s latest dubious claims about the economy.
McCain’s latest remarks are consistent with her post-The View pattern of publicly criticizing the show and its current lineup. Since departing in 2021 following a series of on-air fights, including a widely discussed one with Joy Behar, she has repeatedly voiced dissatisfaction with the program’s direction.
She has also slammed her successor, Alyssa Farah Griffin, questioning her representation of conservative viewpoints.
“The person they replaced me with is a joke. She is in no way representative of conservative women,” McCain said on a recent episode of her “Citizen McCain” podcast.
“It’s been a wildly disappointing experience for me to see what legacy I helped do during the four years there while my dad battled brain cancer and I had not one but two miscarriages while I worked there,” she added.
