Since the 2016 campaign trail, former President Donald Trump hasn't kept his distaste for the late Arizona Republican Senator John McCain a secret.
Trump scoffed at the descriptor of McCain as a war hero because "he was captured" in Vietnam and held as a prisoner of war for years. Upon McCain's death, Trump initially refused to fly White House flags at half staff. Trump has since suggested that McCain is burning in hell.
McCain's eldest daughter, Meghan McCain, recently released a memoir—Bad Republican—detailing her life, especially regarding details of her years as a controversial cohost of The View. Over the course of that job, Ms. McCain frequently had to react to Trump and his family's smears of her father.
In a statement reacting to Meghan McCain's memoir, Trump slammed her as a "lowlife" before once again slamming her father in a lengthy diatribe.
NEW!\n\nPresident Trump:\n\n\u201cIsn\u2019t it funny that Meghan McCain, who has always been a bully and basically a lowlife, is now complaining that it was she who was bullied by the Slobs and Radical Left maniacs of \u201cThe View.\u201d...pic.twitter.com/JmxlCFJepc— Liz Harrington (@Liz Harrington) 1634926666
Trump wrote:
"At the request of many of her representatives, I made it possible for her father to have the world's longest funeral, designed and orchestrated by him, even though I was never, to put it mildly, a fan. In his own very special way, he was a RINO's RINO."
Trump went on to lie that he won the state of Arizona in 2020, despite now-President Joe Biden's victory being repeatedly proven under scrutiny.
For her part, Meghan McCain's response was brief.
Thanks for the publicity boomer.\n\nMy new @audible_com memoir #BadRepublican is out now:\n\nhttps://www.audible.com/pd/Bad-Republican-Audiobook/B09CWWF6DS\u00a0\u2026https://twitter.com/NatalieJHarp/status/1451614274967650304\u00a0\u2026— Meghan McCain (@Meghan McCain) 1634928719
McCain's unapologetic conservatism has earned her swathes of critics, but even they sided with her on this one.
Great clap back. You have increased the space the McCain family owns in TFG's head.— Maria Swanson (@Maria Swanson) 1634933186
Wow honestly one of the longest statements he has written in a while from what I\u2019ve seen on Twitter. You really struck a nerve! Cool.— Marc Christopher (@Marc Christopher) 1634930015
He really has NOTHING better to do? I hope you are redecorating since you are living rent free in his cavernous head.— Kathleen Young (@Kathleen Young) 1634933897
And to think he was actually the President, wtf is wrong with people? Talk about a lowlife I just love how your dad is adored by many and he ....well isn\u2019t— KMc (@KMc) 1634929698
SCORE Meghan! Still can\u2019t believe this loser was POTUS.— Cindy (@Cindy) 1634932522
But not everyone was sympathetic.
Just remember, it\u2019s your party that enables and supports this lowlife— Brian Giles (@Brian Giles) 1634931434
Aren\u2019t you embarrassed that your party follows this oaf!! What a POS— Imjusthereforthetweets (@Imjusthereforthetweets) 1634929675
I find it absolutely unbelievable that @MeghanMcCain still identifies as a Republican and sees value in trying to get others to support the modern conservative movement. It is like some weird Stockholm Syndrome.— Joey (@Joey) 1634928994
May there be no winners in this fight— Brent (@Brent) 1634934831
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