Since the 2016 campaign trail, former President Donald Trump hasn't kept his distaste for the late Arizona Republican Senator John McCain a secret.
Trump scoffed at the descriptor of McCain as a war hero because "he was captured" in Vietnam and held as a prisoner of war for years. Upon McCain's death, Trump initially refused to fly White House flags at half staff. Trump has since suggested that McCain is burning in hell.
McCain's eldest daughter, Meghan McCain, recently released a memoir—Bad Republican—detailing her life, especially regarding details of her years as a controversial cohost of The View. Over the course of that job, Ms. McCain frequently had to react to Trump and his family's smears of her father.
In a statement reacting to Meghan McCain's memoir, Trump slammed her as a "lowlife" before once again slamming her father in a lengthy diatribe.
NEW! President Trump: “Isn’t it funny that Meghan McCain, who has always been a bully and basically a lowlife, is… https://t.co/rgPc45O91J— Liz Harrington (@Liz Harrington) 1634926666.0
Trump wrote:
"At the request of many of her representatives, I made it possible for her father to have the world's longest funeral, designed and orchestrated by him, even though I was never, to put it mildly, a fan. In his own very special way, he was a RINO's RINO."
Trump went on to lie that he won the state of Arizona in 2020, despite now-President Joe Biden's victory being repeatedly proven under scrutiny.
For her part, Meghan McCain's response was brief.
Thanks for the publicity boomer. My new @audible_com memoir #BadRepublican is out now: https://t.co/X2Bzvbr63f https://t.co/wCDR9lVafc— Meghan McCain (@Meghan McCain) 1634928719.0
McCain's unapologetic conservatism has earned her swathes of critics, but even they sided with her on this one.
@MeghanMcCain @audible_com Great clap back. You have increased the space the McCain family owns in TFG's head.— Maria Swanson (@Maria Swanson) 1634933186.0
@MeghanMcCain @audible_com Wow honestly one of the longest statements he has written in a while from what I’ve seen… https://t.co/tiMCywwlUu— Marc Christopher (@Marc Christopher) 1634930015.0
@MeghanMcCain @audible_com He really has NOTHING better to do? I hope you are redecorating since you are living re… https://t.co/oHJvqFI1GB— Kathleen Young (@Kathleen Young) 1634933897.0
@MeghanMcCain @audible_com And to think he was actually the President, wtf is wrong with people? Talk about a lowli… https://t.co/I2tGKmTlgo— KMc (@KMc) 1634929698.0
@MeghanMcCain @audible_com SCORE Meghan! Still can’t believe this loser was POTUS.— Cindy (@Cindy) 1634932522.0
But not everyone was sympathetic.
@MeghanMcCain @audible_com Just remember, it’s your party that enables and supports this lowlife🤷♂️— Brian Giles (@Brian Giles) 1634931434.0
@MeghanMcCain @audible_com Aren’t you embarrassed that your party follows this oaf!! What a POS— Imjusthereforthetweets (@Imjusthereforthetweets) 1634929675.0
@MeghanMcCain @audible_com I find it absolutely unbelievable that @MeghanMcCain still identifies as a Republican an… https://t.co/fNHkGxZLte— Joey (@Joey) 1634928994.0
@MeghanMcCain @audible_com May there be no winners in this fight— Brent (@Brent) 1634934831.0