Meghan McCain Says Her Former Co-Hosts On 'The View' Are 'Crazy Old People'

The conservative commentator criticized her former ABC talk show colleagues during a recent podcast appearance.
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Meghan McCain has some choice words for her former co-hosts on “The View.”

On an episode of author Michael Malice’s “Your Welcome” podcast distributed Wednesday, the conservative commentator slammed her former colleagues — Ana Navarro, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines — calling them “crazy old people.”

McCain argued that the show’s current co-hosts have continually mentioned her in public since she departed the daytime talk show in August 2021.

“The thing about ‘The View’ is that I didn’t know when I signed my contract with ABC that this is forever. That for the rest of my life I’m going to be, like, bullied and yelled at and abused and brought up [for] years,” she said. “I haven’t been on that show in years.”

“I just didn’t know that when I signed to do this show, that I’d have to deal with, like, these crazy old people just yelling about me all the time,” she said. (Her co-hosts’ ages range from 46 to 81, making her, at 39 now, the youngest by seven years.)

Meghan McCain, here at an April gala in New York City, says references to her often come up on the show even if she is not actually named.
Meghan McCain, here at an April gala in New York City, says references to her often come up on the show even if she is not actually named.
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Earlier in the podcast, McCain criticized a Dec. 14 episode of “The View” in which Navarro had seemingly referenced McCain (though she did not name her) during a discussion about Hunter Biden.

Joe Biden’s crime is being Hunter Biden’s father,” Navarro said. “And being Hunter Biden’s very loving father, very good father, very supportive father.”

“Look, did Hunter Biden influence peddle on his last name? Yes he did, so did half of Washington — people sitting at this table did it,” she said.

When asked by other panelists to explain further, Navarro responded, “I’m not talking about currently.”

McCain, the daughter of the late Republican Sen. John McCain, told Malice that she thinks Navarro accused her of having “done the exact same thing that Hunter Biden has done.”

The day the episode aired, McCain addressed Navarro’s comments in a post on X, saying that she would consult her lawyers “regarding what was libeled against me on The View this morning.”

Also on the podcast, McCain accused “The View” of being a “rigged show.”

She said that co-hosts are given “hot topics” the night before each show and that the co-hosts decide on the topics.

“Whatever they [the co-hosts] choose, the majority chooses, is the topic of the show,” she said. “So obviously, anything that makes Democrats look bad is never chosen.”

She added: “There are some news stories that they just straight up wouldn’t cover because it made people look bad.”

A representative of ABC News Studios did not immediately return a request for comment.

In April, Hostin responded to a critical Daily Mail column McCain wrote about “The View” during an appearance on Andy Cohen’s “Watch What Happens Live.” In the column, McCain characterized her departure from the talk show as a “very public, very nasty breakup.”

When asked by a viewer if she had read the column, Hostin replied that she “heard about it” but not read it.

After asserting that the daytime show is “a wonderful place,” she then offered her thoughts on McCain.

“I don’t think she’s doing television anymore. I think you should hire her for one of the ‘Housewives’ franchises,” Hostin told Cohen, who is an executive producer of the “Real Housewives” reality TV shows. “She’d be great on [the series] ‘Potomac’ or any of them.”

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