Meghan McCain doesn't think ABC News' political pressure on "The View" co-hosts will be received with any seriousness.
It was reported Wednesday that ABC's President Almin Karamehmedovic, as well as Disney CEO Bob Iger, instructed the women leading the popular daytime television program to tone down their constant criticism of President Donald Trump, while emphasizing this was a suggestion and not an "edict."
McCain, a former co-host on "The View" herself, made clear in an X post on Thursday that's not going to happen.
"They will never do that," she wrote.
Thus far, McCain's assessment appears to be correct. One of the co-hosts reportedly retorted, "This is what our audience wants. Isn’t it gonna look kind of bad if we’re all of a sudden not talking about politics?"
Moreover, on their latest episode on Thursday, Whoopi Goldberg tore into Trump with gusto over the administration's acceptance of a $400 million luxury Boeing 747 from the government of Qatar: "You know, and if you — you know, people always want us to be respectful and do the things and talk about the stuff we talk about. We can do all of that. But when you are blatantly giving the country the middle finger, that is blatant. You're not supposed to do that. You're not supposed to take the plane."
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McCain, the daughter of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, is not necessarily making her assessment as a compliment. While her family has long clashed with Trump and she herself did not endorse him in 2024, she has praised him at times — and says she left "The View" because she considers it an echo chamber that won't allow pro-Trump voices.
“It is actual malfeasance on the part of ABC News that there isn’t one single conservative woman on The View this morning who voted for Trump or simply isn’t repulsed by his supporters to explain to America why he is still so popular,” McCain wrote on X last year.
Notably, while "The View" doesn't have any overtly pro-Trump co-hosts, one of them, Alyssa Farah Griffin, is a previous Trump supporter who served as a communications official in his first administration and broke from him around the time he fought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
