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Meghan McCain reveals ‘bizarre conversation’ with Donald Trump after he mocked Senator John McCain

Meghan McCain reveals 'bizarre conversation' with Donald Trump after he mocked Senator John McCain 2

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Television personality and DailyMail.com columnist Meghan McCain is opening up about her upcoming Audible audio memoir, Bad Republican, in an exclusive interview with DailyMailTV host Thomas Roberts.

McCain explained the tongue-and-cheek meaning behind the title, which is a light-hearted reference to the contrarian persona she’s consistently portrayed to be in the media.

The 36-year-old author also revealed details about a ‘bizarre’ phone conversation she had with former President Donald Trump after the 2016 election when he had mocked her father John McCain’s war injuries.

Bad Republican: Television personality and DailyMail.com columnist Meghan McCain is opening up about her upcoming Audible audio memoir, Bad Republican , in an exclusive interview with DailyMailTV host Thomas Roberts

Bad Republican: Television personality and DailyMail.com columnist Meghan McCain is opening up about her upcoming Audible audio memoir, Bad Republican , in an exclusive interview with DailyMailTV host Thomas Roberts

‘Now in the Audible book, you talk about receiving a phone call from former President Donald Trump,’ asked DailyMailTV host Thomas Roberts. ‘How surprised were you to get this call? And this is after the [2016] election, correct?’

‘Yeah, it was after the election. There had been a report by Mike Allen that said that he was physically mocking my dad doing the thumbs down for the skinny healthcare repeal,’ Meghan explained.

‘And my dad, because of his war injuries, he walked sort of like with a limp because he couldn’t bend his knee,’ Meghan continued, calling the ridicule ‘disgusting.’

In 2017, Allen’s Axios piece made reference to Trump ‘imitating the thumbs-down’ of McCain’s headline-making health care vote to preserve the Affordable Care Act. At the time of the Arizona Senator’s vote, he had recently been diagnosed with brain cancer.

'There had been a report by Mike Allen that said that he was physically mocking my dad doing the thumbs down for the skinny healthcare repeal,' Meghan explained. 'And my dad, because of his war injuries, he walked sort of like with a limp because he couldn't bend his knee'

‘There had been a report by Mike Allen that said that he was physically mocking my dad doing the thumbs down for the skinny healthcare repeal,’ Meghan explained. ‘And my dad, because of his war injuries, he walked sort of like with a limp because he couldn’t bend his knee’

'Respect the office': Meghan tells DailyMailTV she got a missed call from the White House after posting a tweet critical of Trump and her father made her call the President back (Seen in 2014)

‘Respect the office’: Meghan tells DailyMailTV she got a missed call from the White House after posting a tweet critical of Trump and her father made her call the President back (Seen in 2014)

‘I tweeted, ‘This is abhorrent. What more must my family be put through?’ and I got a phone call from like this weird number that I didn’t answer, and there was a voicemail that said, ‘This is the White House. President Trump would like to speak with Miss McCain,’ and I lost my mind,’ Meghan recalled to DailyMailTV.

‘And I called my dad and I said, ‘I don’t want to call him back. This is scary. I don’t want to talk to him.’ and my dad said, ‘You have to call him. He’s the President of the United States. It’s not an option. You still respect the office.’

‘I called him and we had a very bizarre conversation, and he denied making fun of my dad’s war injuries and he didn’t apologize, but he said, “I didn’t do this, this is fake news, this is Mike Allen lying,” she recalled.

'I called [Trump] and we had a very bizarre conversation, and he denied making fun of my dad's war injuries and he didn't apologize, but he said, “I didn't do this, this is fake news, this is Mike Allen lying,” she recalled.

‘I called [Trump] and we had a very bizarre conversation, and he denied making fun of my dad’s war injuries and he didn’t apologize, but he said, “I didn’t do this, this is fake news, this is Mike Allen lying,” she recalled.

Meghan added that Trump then made his wife and, at the time, newly minted First Lady Melania get on speaker phone to help smooth things over.

‘She was like, ‘We love you, we love your dad.’ and I was like, you don’t, but okay,’ Meghan said, adding that it felt like the ‘one and only time’ the Trumps had ‘some awareness’ of the ‘damage’ their rhetoric did to the McCain family.

When writing about the phone call in Bad Republican, Meghan noted Trump ‘wouldn’t change his tactics either. He would go on to talk about my father over and over again, always in derogatory ways.

‘For years he made a sport of beating the crap out of my family, and he didn’t let up once he got into the Oval Office. Trump had supporters boo my father at a rally. He fought the lowering of the flag in my dad’s honor when he died,’ she penned.

Trump infamously degraded McCain, a former prisoner of war, and his time in the military during a 2015 Q&A in Iowa. ‘He’s not a war hero,’ Trump said of McCain. ‘He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.’

Even as she was writing her manuscript he tweeted that John McCain was one of the most overrated people in DC.

In the course of writing her new Audible book, Meghan said that her father’s 2018 death served as a sort of tentpole moment in the retelling of her life story.

‘Liberty’s birth and my father’s death are the two key events creating a before and an after in the story of my life,’ Meghan said of her new audio memoir Bad Republican.

Meghan and her husband Ben Domenech welcomed daughter Liberty in 2020.

The name of Meghan’s new book, she revealed to DailyMailTV, was a way to sort of poke fun at the fact that wherever she seems to go, the word ‘bad’ follows.

Public image: The name of Meghan's new book, she revealed to DailyMailTV, was a way to sort of poke fun at the fact that wherever she seems to go, the word 'bad' follows

Public image: The name of Meghan’s new book, she revealed to DailyMailTV, was a way to sort of poke fun at the fact that wherever she seems to go, the word ‘bad’ follows

‘Like working on The View, you’re the bad republican because you’re the villain,’ she explained. ‘If it’s my space within the Republican Party, I’m the bad republican because I’m not a Trump supporter, adding: ‘It doesn’t matter where I’m at or what I’m doing, ‘I’m not a good enough republican in the space that I’m in.’

‘It’s meant to be funny,’ Meghan said of her book title. ‘I hope that comes across. And I just thought it was like sort of a play on the way the media has portrayed me for, like, the past five years.’

Meghan, who worked in radio during the early parts of her career, has for years used her voice as an instrument and called Amazon’s audio app an ‘incredible medium’.

‘I’m someone that really emotes with my voice and being on camera for so long and doing radio for so long, I have learned how to use my voice as a tool, and I just really wanted to tell stories.’ she said.

In the memoir, she reflects on her headline-making and often tumultuous time on The View, recalling at one point that she ‘burst into tears’ after co-host Joy Behar said live on air that she didn’t miss her during her maternity leave.

'Like working on The View, you're the bad republican because you're the villain,' she explained. 'If it's my space within the Republican Party, I'm the bad republican because I'm not a Trump supporter, adding: 'It doesn't matter where I'm at or what I'm doing, 'I'm not a good enough republican in the space that I'm in.'

‘Like working on The View, you’re the bad republican because you’re the villain,’ she explained. ‘If it’s my space within the Republican Party, I’m the bad republican because I’m not a Trump supporter, adding: ‘It doesn’t matter where I’m at or what I’m doing, ‘I’m not a good enough republican in the space that I’m in.’

‘I had been gone for three months and I assumed they had missed me… I was wrong,’ McCain writes in the book.

In January, on her second day back from leave, she was having a squabble with Behar about the state of the Democratic Party. ‘To ease the tension, I said: ”Joy, you missed me so much when I was on maternity leave.”

‘I did not,’ Joy said. ‘I did not miss you. Zero.’

McCain said she felt vulnerable after giving birth, because she suffered from post-partum anxiety.

‘Joy seemed to smell that vulnerability like a shark smells blood in the water, and she took after it. When we broke for commercial I burst into tears — not just like tearing up — uncontrollable sobbing,’ McCain reveals in the book.

'Liberty's birth and my father's death are the two key events creating a before and an after in the story of my life,' Meghan said of her new audio memoir Bad Republican.

‘Liberty’s birth and my father’s death are the two key events creating a before and an after in the story of my life,’ Meghan said of her new audio memoir Bad Republican.

She continues, ‘Until that moment it hadn’t even occurred to me that Joy hadn’t missed me. She texted me to see a baby picture of Liberty and she had seemed happy for me. We chatted in a friendly way. I believe that despite all our differences, deep down we had a mutual understanding of respect for each other.

‘Nothing anyone has ever said to me on camera, since I have been giving interviews, since I was 22 years old, has ever hit this hard,’ McCain says. ‘I felt like I’d been slapped. She yelled out at me sharp and intensely, and I believed her.’

”That’s so nasty,” I said, unable to hide my shock. ”That’s so rude.”’

McCain quit the show in July, after, she said, the other hosts especially Whoopi Goldberg and Behar turned on her.

Meghan’s new audio memoir, Bad Republican, premieres October 21st exclusively on Audible. 

Listen up! Meghan's new audio memoir, Bad Republican , premieres October 21st exclusively on Audible

Listen up! Meghan’s new audio memoir, Bad Republican , premieres October 21st exclusively on Audible

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