Meghan McCain Rips Trump’s “Pathetic” Tweets About Her Father on ‘The View’

After a weekend of increasingly erratic tweets from President Donald Trump, it was clear what The View was going to tackle Monday morning. The women of the ABC talk show got the Trump discussion out of the way at the top of Monday’s show, with the entire panel — including Whoopi Goldberg, who has finally returned after a long battle with pneumonia — agreeing that the president’s repeated digs at the late Sen. John McCain were “pathetic.” The View‘s co-hosts ceded much of the conversation to Meghan McCain, who defended her father’s honor, saying that Trump “spends his weekends obsessing over great men” because he knows “he will never” be one. McCain went on to say that she “genuinely [feels] bad” for the president’s family, as he prefers to be petty online rather than actually spend time with his children, wife, and grandchildren.

Goldberg wasted no time before introducing today’s first segment: Trump’s “crazy” tweets about John McCain and Saturday Night Live, which aired a re-run over the weekend. “So it was indeed (just proven in court papers) ‘last in his class’ (Annapolis) John McCain that sent the Fake Dossier to the FBI and Media hoping to have it printed BEFORE the Election,” Trump tweeted on Sunday morning. That didn’t sit well with the women of The View. “This is a guy who’s supposed to be running the country,” said Goldberg. “Crazy things are happening in this country, and he’s pissed off because of a re-run of SNL?” Sunny Hostin chimed in to say that McCain responded to Trump’s tweets “with so much class,” particularly in the face of the president’s “pathetic” remarks.

McCain thanked Hostin for the “wonderful words” before diving in. “Listen, he spends his weekends obsessing over great men because — he knows it, and I know it, and all of you know it — he will never be a great man,” said the conservative co-host. “My father was his kryptonite in life, he was his kryptonite in death.” McCain went on to say that when her father was alive, they spent their days “really celebrating life,” but Trump doesn’t seem to want to do that. “I just thought, ‘Your life is spent on your weekends not with your family, not with your friends, but obsessing — obsessing — over great men you could never live up to,'” she said. “That tells you everything you need to know about his pathetic life right now.”

“I genuinely feel bad for his family. I can’t imagine having a father that does this on the weekends,” she added.

Watch Meghan McCain take down Trump in the clip above.

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