Meghan McCain recalls 'yelling' at “The View” cohosts during 'heated Hot Topics meeting' over wealth gap

"Part of the rot in media is because they’re not talking to the working class," McCain said.

Princess of Arizona Meghan McCain's previously-expressed interest in not talking about her tenure on The View has once again led to her talking about her tenure on The View — this time, as her latest podcast episode highlights, over the wealth gap between the show's cohosts and the public tuning in.

“I had an experience while I was working at ABC News [on The View]. I was in a particularly heated Hot Topics meeting. I remember yelling at the meeting that, 'Some of you' or 'All of you are going to have to start interacting with people who don’t make $100,000 a year or more. You have to interact with someone who makes minimum wage on some level or another,'" McCain said on Tuesday's episode of Meghan McCain Has Entered the Chat.

The 39-year-old daughter of the late Arizona senator John McCain continued, calling her "experience working in much of corporate media" an exercise in watching wealthy TV personalities "live in $20 million Upper West Side mansions or apartments" and "take their Teslas to the Hamptons or Sag Harbor on the weekend with their family and then they come back."

"That is their life every day. Part of the rot in media is because they’re not talking to the working class," she finished.

Though McCain didn't mention any of her past colleagues by name, moderator and Hollywood legend Whoopi Goldberg has made a few quips about her income in the past, while legal expert Sunny Hostin wrote a novel titled Summer on Sag Harbor — the title of which references the New York locale McCain chose to name in her criticism of her former coworkers.

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After departing The View in 2021 following several high-profile on-air spats — including a particularly heated exchange with Joy Behar after McCain returned from maternity leave — McCain has consistently spoken out against the show in interviews, on social media, and on her podcast.

"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 on her show in December, referencing a Dec. 14 View telecast that saw Ana Navarro suggest that, within a larger conversation about Hunter Biden's ongoing legal woes, some former View panelists "influence-peddled" on their famous last names — without naming McCain specifically.

McCain interpreted this as Navarro accusing her, individually, of committing multiple crimes, and said she explored legal action over the matter, despite having shared the Hot Topics table with Abby Huntsman, the daughter of Utah's former governor, John Huntsman.

"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," McCain continued at the time. "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."

The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on ABC. Listen to Meghan McCain Has Entered the Chat above.

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