Meghan McCain calls “The View” cohosts 'crazy old people' who bully and abuse her

McCain — who claims she does not think about "The View" — once again brought up the show on a new podcast.

Meghan McCain — who recently claimed she does not think about The View, despite speaking out against the show in interviews, essays, and on her Meghan McCain Has Entered the Chat podcast — has once again slammed the long-running talk show and its cohosts in a new podcast interview.

Appearing Wednesday as a guest on Michael Malice's Your Welcome podcast, the 39-year-old daughter of the late John McCain, conservative pundit, cactus-loving plant mom, and unofficial princess of Arizona heavily criticized her former colleagues amid fallout from a recent on-air development on the ABC series that she perceived as a dig at her reputation.

"The thing about The View is that I didn't know when I signed my contract with ABC that this is forever, that, for the rest of my life, I'm going to be bullied, yelled at, abused, and brought up for years. I haven't been on that show in years. I'm just trying to live my life," McCain said, referencing the Dec. 14 broadcast, during which Ana Navarro suggested that, within a larger conversation about Hunter Biden's ongoing legal woes, former View panelists "influence-peddled" on their famous last names — without naming McCain specifically. McCain told Malice that she interpreted the comment as Navarro accusing her of committing multiple crimes, and said she explored legal action over the matter.

"I just didn't know that when I signed to do this show that I have to deal with these crazy old people just yelling about me all of the time," she continued. "I go whole swaths of time without thinking about them — whole months without thinking about the show or anything. Apparently, I'm just on their minds every day. And it's pathetic."

Malice went on to call The View a "malevolent show" that served as a targeted "[psychological operation] to encourage people to repeal the 19th amendment" — a claim McCain denied.

"I honestly don't think that, just from working there, that they're that smart. It's a very disorganized place backstage. It's very chaotic, I think that's giving people that work there a lot of credit that they shouldn't have. It's kind of a rigged show," she replied. "At night, all the hosts are given Hot Topics to choose from, you're sent news articles you want to talk about the next day. Whatever the majority chooses is the topic of the show. Anything that makes democrats look bad is never chosen. I had to go in every morning being like, 'Hey, whatever news story that makes Biden look bad is the number one news story of the day,' and there would be a fight over whether or not it should even be aired because the hosts didn't agree on it. That was always a battle every day."

EW has reached out to a representative for The View for comment.

McCain departed The View in 2021, four years after she joined the program as a permanent cohost. She regularly engaged in on-air spats with the cohosts, including a memorable argument with Joy Behar that saw the 81-year-old tell McCain she didn't miss her when McCain was out on maternity leave.

In November, McCain said on Meghan McCain Has Entered the Chat that she was "miserable" while working on the show, and compared her exit to "a bomb going off" in the studio. In an April column for the Daily Mail, she claimed that she was "treated horribly" on the show, two years after speaking to Variety for an interview in which she said she had a "panic attack" backstage after her infamous on-air fight with Behar.

Listen to McCain slam her former employer in the Your Welcome podcast episode above. The View and current cohosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sara Haines, Behar, and Navarro, returns from its holiday hiatus on Jan. 2 at 11 a.m. ET.

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