- Meghan McCain has accused Marjorie Taylor Greene of auditioning for a seat on The View.
- The former cohost called out the ex-congresswoman’s recent appearances on the talk show.
- EW has since learned an update from a source close to the situation.
Former The View cohost Meghan McCain has once again weighed in on matters related to her former employer — this time accusing former Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of auditioning for a seat at the Hot Topics table.
Amid controversial conservative Greene continuing her ongoing press tour — including two recent interview appearances on The View — McCain speculated that her recent appearances are no more than an attempt to rehabilitate her problematic image in politics.
“I don’t care how often she auditions for a seat at The View,” the 40-year-old wrote on X. “This woman is not moderate and no one should be buying her pathetic attempt at rebrand.”
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Entertainment Weekly has since learned from a source that The View already has a full table — filled with current stars Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro — and that there is no current truth to Greene being considered as a cohost.
McCain’s comment about Greene came as part of her commentary on a recent Axios report that alleged “the White House told the Secret Service that Greene may have tipped off Code Pink protesters about his surprise visit last fall to a D.C. restaurant she recommended” to the president.
“It’s legitimately so dangerous if Marjorie Taylor Greene did this. Code Pink is a bunch of insane radicals and someone could have gotten hurt. This happened after the assassination attempts on President Trump,” McCain said in her social media post.
In response, Greene told Axios that the allegation is “an absolute lie, a dangerous lie” and that she “would never do that.”
EW has reached out to Greene and a representative for The View for comment on McCain’s social media post.
Though she might not join the table as a permanent cohost, Greene has made a pair of highly publicized appearances on The View in recent months.
In a Jan. 7 appearance, Hostin confronted Greene about past transphobic comments and other divisive rhetoric she spoke for years before leaving office on Jan. 5, and asked if she’d extended apologies to her political colleagues such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jasmine Crockett.
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“I don’t want to be part of that anymore. I want to focus on politics and policies and actions, instead of focusing on individuals, because our country is so divided,” Greene said, stressing that she “has apologized” for her past incendiary remarks.
“So, you apologized to people like AOC and Jasmine Crockett and your colleague, who you made fun of her transgender child?” asked Hostin, referencing Greene’s transphobic actions against Rep. Marie Newman, who has a trans daughter, in 2021. “Have you made specific apologies to those people, especially your colleauge who had a transgender child, because you have a child as well, and who you taunted?”
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Greene replied, noting that she “made a blanket apology,” but hasn’t “received apologies back from so many people that attacked me” in the past.
The political figure has since attempted to smooth over her polarizing reputation, even amid a public rift with Donald Trump, whom she has long supported as an ally, but has openly criticized her as of late.
The View airs weekdays on ABC.