Meghan McCain Rips Trump for Saying He Was with First Responders on 9/11: “Have Some Respect”

The women of The View have no patience for President Trump claiming that he “spent a lot of time down there” with first responders on 9/11. On Tuesday morning, the panel slammed Trump’s remarks, as well as his “unbelievable” attempt to “co-opt heroism.” While The View‘s co-hosts were equally shocked by the president’s comment, Meghan McCain‘s voice rose above the rest as she recalled the story of Luis Alvarez, who passed away just days after testifying before Congress in support of the bill. “Have some respect for people who did the hardest jobs on one of the most horrific days in history,” said McCain.

After playing a clip of Trump’s Monday speech in the Rose Garden, moderator Whoopi Goldberg fact-checked the president by playing an audio clip in which he bragged that after the World Trade Center fell, his building was now the tallest in New York City. “Is this going to be another one of those things?” asked Goldberg. “He’s like Zelig … What the hell.”

McCain then chimed in to say that on the Fourth of July, she got emotional while watching an interview of Alvarez, who passed away in late June from cancer. “He had done an interview with Shep Smith on Fox News where he was talking about how his son isn’t going to have a father,” said McCain. “I could not stop crying.” The conservative firebrand noted that she knows this “is not about” her, but as someone who also lost her father, she feels for the family. “I think of his son almost every day now,” she said. “And to sit there and act like our president has anything, any kind of experience like the Alvarez family and what they just went through and are going through — if we could just have some respect for people who did the hardest jobs on one of our horrific days in history.”

“All our hearts really go out to that family. I really do think of them almost daily,” continued McCain. Goldberg noted that their hearts go out “to all of those families” affected by 9/11, and McCain agreed. “Yeah, all of them, obviously.”

“The fact that he’s trying to co-opt heroism is unbelievable,” added Sunny Hostin. “Cadet Bone Spurs!” joked Joy Behar. “He’s a pathological liar,” continued Hostin. “He needs to take ownership of the fact that he wasn’t there.” At the very least, said McCain, “nobody believes that.” Or do they?

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