Meghan McCain Gets Into a Fight Just 30 Minutes Into Her First Episode Back on ‘The View’

Meghan McCain has been absent from The View since late September, but it didn’t take long for her to return to peak form. On Monday morning, the conservative firebrand returned from maternity leave and took aim at her co-hosts for insisting that President Trump is “trying to stage a coup” after losing the presidential election. The discussion quickly devolved into chaos, but after a few minutes of Meghan vs. Joy yelling, Whoopi Goldberg finally shut things down. “We’ll be right back. I’m not playing with them,” said Goldberg, as McCain and Behar continued to argue. Ah, normalcy has returned to The View!

Today’s full show of Hot Topics kicked off with a discussion about the damning audio, released Sunday by the Washington Post, of Trump asking Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” in his favor to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state. The co-hosts were united in their condemnation of the president — “Get the straight jacket,” said Behar — but McCain tempered her criticism and insisted that Trump is merely complaining because he lost. “I don’t think he’s trying to stage a coup,” she said, responding to an argument posed by Sunny Hostin. “He’s ranting and he’s pissed off because he’s irrelevant right now and Biden’s about to take his seat in the office. I think people are taking this way too seriously right now.”

After the commercial break, Behar continued to skewer the president and “his people, who ever they are,” for “disenfranchising Black voters” in Georgia. McCain countered, informing Behar that her “rhetoric is dangerous” and ignores the 70 million Americans who voted for Trump. “Biden won, but he didn’t win by any kind of a landslide that I thought he would,” she said. “The rhetoric in the media needs to be more respectful of Trump voters. I think that’s how we got to this place to begin with. Going forward in 2021 I think we need to be respectful of the 70 million Americans that, for whatever reason, did not feel that they could, in good faith, pull the trigger for President Biden and Vice President Harris.”

When Behar argued that these voters are “getting their news from other than legitimate sources” and “getting lied to,” things really went off the rails. “No, I don’t. I think that’s fake news!” replied McCain in an attempt to speak over her co-host. “I know a lot of Republicans, they’re people –”

“Stop! I can’t hear anybody,” interrupted Goldberg, who later added that Republicans who want respect must also “respect the people who voted for Biden and let him take his place.”

Of course, Goldberg’s outburst didn’t help things, and before long, McCain and Behar were back at it. “They’ve been lied to!” yelled Behar. “I think that’s the perspective of Joy Behar, with all due respect,” fired back McCain. “You’re a proud progressive leftist, but I am a proud conservative. The idea that the only reason people voted for President Trump in the last election is because they were lied to and they’re morons who are just being fed information is not only disrespectful, but wildly inaccurate!”

Cue more yelling, and another attempt by Goldberg to corral the discussion. But this time, she relied on The View‘s producers to help her out, and her efforts finally proved successful. Nothing says “Meghan McCain is back on The View” quite like a cut-to-commercial-to-avoid-a-fight moment.

Watch a portion of The View‘s Trump discussion above.

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