Meghan McCain Blasts Her ‘The View’ Replacement Alyssa Farah Griffin as a ‘Joke’
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- Meghan McCain criticized The View‘s choice of Alyssa Farah Griffin as her replacement, calling her a ‘joke.’
- McCain claimed she was asked to help select her successor and suggested more traditionally conservative women.
- She also criticized Griffin for admitting she voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
Meghan McCain is not happy about who The View chose to replace her with after she left the long-running ABC talk show in 2021.
On the latest episode of her Citizen McCain podcast, McCain spoke with conservative influencer Isabel Brown, who has been embroiled in a beef with The View after the show’s panelists slammed her views on childbirth and marriage.
“The idea that a woman could be pro-life is beyond anyone at that show’s comprehension,” McCain said, per Entertainment Weekly. She then turned her attention to Alyssa Farah Griffin, Donald Trump‘s former White House director of strategic communications, who joined The View as a conservative commentator in 2022.
“When I left The View, the executive producer said, ‘I want you to help me help pick your [successor],'” McCain claimed before going on to state incorrect details about the show’s Emmy history. “The show has only won an Emmy twice in its history — one time is when I was there, for Best Political Show.”
The View has won over 30 Daytime Emmys since its debut in 1997, including most recently in 2020, taking home the award for Outstanding Informative Talk Show. There is also no “Best Political Show” category.
McCain said she suggested “a list of women I thought would be great,” including Christian speaker Allie Beth Stuckey. “You need someone who’s a real one,” she stated, “[not] fake people who once voted for President Bush in the early 2000s and now hate everything Republicans have become.”
“I’m gonna say something that’s a little nasty,” she continued, turning her attention to Griffin. “The person they replaced me with is a joke. She is in no way representative of conservative women. It’s been a wildly disappointing experience for me to see what legacy I helped do during the four years there while my dad battled brain cancer and I had not one, but two miscarriages while I worked there.”
McCain, the daughter of the late senator John McCain and diplomat Cindy McCain, also criticized Griffin for admitting she voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. “How is that representing conservatives?” she asked.
As for who McCain would like to see in Griffin’s seat, she had high praise for former co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck. “She was great, and she was really strong, and she fought for a lot of the things that I fight for,” she said.
Hasselbeck originally served as co-host from 2003 to 2013 and became known for her hardcore conservative views, which often led to her clashing with her co-hosts, most notably Rosie O’Donnell. Hasselbeck returned as a guest co-host earlier this year during Griffin’s maternity leave.
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I love the view have watched from day one and I can honestly say McCain was the worst host! Always interrupting so rude and acted like a spoiled brat! It’s hard to find a person who is intelligent that still supports Trump! He’s the evil predictor ruining our country! As for Alyssa so glad she’s back! Very knowledgeable since she worked IN THE WHITE HOUSE and can speak truth!
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In Trump’s voice: Boo !’ Now go change your skivvies !! 😂
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Talk about sour grapes. What a sorry excuse for a human being.. She’s definitely following in her supreme leaders train of thought, to use that term loosely.
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Her father would be so disappointed. She’s the very definition of clout chasing. Her father and Biden were friends. He was there for her when her father passed. She used to be a normal person. Then she got in bed with MAGA, literally. The day she raked Biden over the coals crossed a line. You can be critical of a policy. You can disagree. But she personally attacked him. That’s when I knew she drank the juice. Don’t underestimate the power of a cult. Those who have never been in one or had family in one, can never understand the pull. To each person it means something different, power, popularity, money, etc.
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It's her husband. He's mega Maga.
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Oh No !! But much better than Lunatic Leftist !!
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Meghan needs to change that top. The button is working overtime to keep it's job.
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She’s awful and so negative. I feel sorry for her children. She was so agro on the show. So glad she’s gone.
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Well, Megan, I imagine the reason that Alyssa voted for Kamala was that she had enough sense to NOT vote for the disaster Trump brought to the presidency!
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Never thought there would be anyone worse than the orange dodo!!
Congrats. You win!!
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The whole show is a perverse joke. She should be glad not to be on it.
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K
Don't watch then. Somebody likes it since it has won awards and has big viewership. The best part is we don't have to listen to her screechy voice anymore.
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Poor Meghan McCain…. I feel so sorry for her because Trump could not stand her father so how can she stand up for him. Also the View has won over 30 Emmy Awards and is still the number one daytime talk show and that bothers the hell out of you… Grow up and stop handing out insults instead start explaining to your MAGA friends why we are in such bad shape in this country.
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I love Allyssa I think she’s been a great replacement for Meghan and yes miss big mouth was rude and annoying and she’s obviously so jealous right now because Allyssa has been very popular and nobody could stand Meghan she blamed everyone but herself for her low ratings. Allyssa has class and represents the conservative view without being a crazy maga which Meghan obviously is now.
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Yea, but the difference is nobody is as grotesque as Trump and his grifting family who is cashing in on the whole country, even you. You're just too thick to understand it.
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