Yahoo Lifestyle Meghan McCain Says Rosie O'Donnell Once 'Warned' Her That 'The View' Was A 'Cesspool'
Meghan McCain says none other than Rosie O’Donnell once “warned” her that the “The View” was a “cesspool,” the former co-host recently shared during a wide-ranging discussion about privilege, nepotism and politics on the “Your Welcome” podcast.
“I always got along with her,” said McCain during Wednesday’s episode. “She was actually the first person that warned me that ‘The View’ is a cesspool. She’s another one that, she’s worth a bajillion dollars and she has a ton of Emmys, but I think people relate to her.”
McCain joined the “View” in 2017. While her tenure never overlapped with O’Donnell’s, who was on the show in the mid-2000s, the two apparently spoke during intermission at a 2018 Broadway performance of Disney’s “Frozen,” a source told Entertainment Weekly on Thursday. HuffPost has reached out to representatives of O’Donnell for comment.
O’Donnell announced earlier this month that she and her family have moved to Ireland, citing “what’s happening politically” in the U.S., likely referring to President Donald Trump and his tumultuous and polarizing administration.
McCain argued Wednesday that O’Donnell is nonetheless still appreciated back home, stating, “She’s just been through a lot and is open, and I think if you’re raw and open, people will respond to it.”
The daughter of late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Cindy McCain, whose family owns one of the largest Anheuser-Busch beer distributors in the U.S., also argued that “there’s nothing less cool” in the current climate “than having a privileged background,” however.
“Having a last name is actually a detriment now,” she claimed, adding: “It’s something I’ve been told by political strategists, people don’t like it. People think you’ve been handed everything. I’m not ashamed, but I certainly am ... very aware of the tone in the country right now.”
Trump has spent the first three months of his current term dismantling federal agencies, firing thousands of government employees, defying judges and deporting hundreds of people.
O’Donnell, who famously feuded with Trump when he was still a television personality, has similarly negative memories of “The View” — and told Brooke Shields on the “Now What?” podcast last year that hosting the show is “not something I’d ever do again.”
O’Donnell cited her blowouts with conservative former co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck as one of the main reasons. McCain, who exited “The View” in 2021, shared on her podcast last year that she “cannot live my life on camera like this anymore.”
The following month, she slammed her former co-hosts as “crazy old people.”
