Meghan McCain and Joy Behar Are Feuding Again on ‘The View’: “You Make Me Defend” Trump!

Meghan McCain and Joy Behar‘s feud has reared its ugly head yet again. On Tuesday morning, The View co-hosts got into it during a discussion about President Trump’s upcoming Oklahoma rally. When Behar insisted that the president doesn’t care about his supporters’ health, McCain blew up, and she ripped the “hypocrisy” of the media for suggesting that attending a Trump rally amid the pandemic is dangerous, but attending a Black Lives Matter protest is not. “Is it only a pandemic if you are a conservative and you’re a Trump supporter?” asked McCain.

This morning, the women of The View tackled the big news story of the week: Trump’s Tulsa, Oklahoma rally this coming Saturday, June 20. The event will be Trump’s first rally since the coronavirus pandemic first spread across the United States in March, and the president is requiring attendees to sign a waiver that they bear all responsibility should they catch COVID-19.

Behar was quick to slam Trump for suddenly acknowledging the reality of coronavirus after months of dismissal. “He didn’t believe in science, but now that it comes to his pocketbook, he believes in science all of the sudden?” she said. “Here’s a note to Trump supporters: he doesn’t care about you! He doesn’t care about your health or your children’s health! He only cares that you come and supply kudos to his massive ego.”

McCain pushed back immediately, noting that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo proved he doesn’t care “about people’s health when he moved people around to nursing homes that were Covid-positive” in March and April. “There’s a lot of hypocrisy to go around here,” said the conservative co-host. She added that she’s particularly “enraged” that Behar and other members of the media seem to believe that as long as you’re protesting with “the right politics, you can” attend large events. “Going to a Trump rally is somehow much more dangerous than going to a rally in Brooklyn?” she said. “We have to be consistent on this … We can laugh all we want on here, but this is the most angry I’ve seen a lot of people I know in the center and on the right. The messaging is very confusing.”

Longtime moderator Whoopi Goldberg attempted to avert a potential fight, but Behar (and some kind of technical issue) cut her off. “The what about-ism is irrelevant to me,” Behar told McCain. “Nobody in the Cuomo administration has asked anybody to sign a waiver so that they can’t be sued! It’s a whole different ballgame.”

“All politicians have public health at the forefront [of their platforms],” fired back McCain. She insisted that she’s obviously not a fan of Trump, but Behar says “something incendiary” about his priorities, she’s forced to step in. “You make me defend him when you say things like, ‘He wants people to die!'” ripped the co-host. “Let’s just be careful with our rhetoric right now. This is already a heightened time, and it’s already dangerous.”

“I have been in quarantine just like everyone else for the past three and a half months,” McCain continued. “I still can’t buy a crib for my child in person! … It’s confusing; it’s frustrating. I want to be responsible. I want people to be safe. I do not want people to get sick, of course. But I do not understand the mixed messaging that’s happening, and there’s a lot of Americans right now who are on the same page as I am.”

Once again, Goldberg tried to step in by throwing the show to commercial, but Behar wouldn’t have it. “Listen! He fired the pandemic team!” she yelled over her co-host. “If he hadn’t been so incompetent, we’d be out of this!”

“This is an American problem,” replied McCain. “It is a problem that is bipartisan. It is not just a Trump administration, Joy.” When Behar said that she vehemently disagrees, McCain told her she was being “ridiculous.”

“Yes, it’s just a Republican problem, Joy!” yelled McCain. “Yes.” Well, at least they’re consistent.

Watch Joy Behar and Meghan McCain throw down in the clip above.

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