Meghan McCain blasts Melania's anti-bullying campaign after Trump's remarks on late Rep. John Dingell
President Donald Trump lambasted late Congressman John Dingell at a recent rally, insinuating that he is in hell. This, however, did not sit well with Meghan McCain, who subsequently lashed out at Ivanka and Melania Trump, ridiculing the first lady's 'Be Best' anti-bullying campaign.
The View co-host took aim at Trump on December 19's episode after he insisted at a rally on December 18 night that Dingell's widow, Rep. Debbie Dingell, should have voted against impeachment as he had authorized full funeral honors for her husband in February.
"Maybe he's looking up, I don't know, but let's assume he's looking down," Trump joked about the late Democrat, who held the record of serving the longest term in Congress.
McCain, who has previously expressed outrage at the president's controversial remarks about her own deceased father, fervently lashed out at his family for his recent comments.
"The Be Best, anti-bullying c**p — I don't want to hear any more from anybody," she said. "I don't want to hear it from Ivanka, I don't want to hear it from Melania. Until you get him in line when it comes to disparaging people... when you are disparaging widows and people who have served the country and war heroes who have passed — again, I know something about it — it is, until you get them in line, you are complicit in this as well."
"There is a special kind of horrific monstrosity in (Trump) that does this type of thing to widows," McCain added.
Melania's initiative 'Be Best' aims to stop online harassment and instead encourage children to "choose their words wisely and speak with respect and compassion".
Debbie Dingell was close to tears on December 19 as she opened up about Trump's unkind remarks about her late husband.
"I loved my husband very much. I'm still having a hard time. He was my partner and the love of my life, and so I was already having a hard time with this holiday and the comments that he made was just — it made me sad. But I'll keep doing my job," she told Fox News.
Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi likened Trump's attack on John Dingell to his comments about late Senator John McCain and called him "insecure" for his words.
"Let us pray. Let us pray for the president. The president clearly is insecure when it comes to statespersons, whether it was John McCain. Think of what he said about John McCain and his supporters just overlooked that. John McCain. Now John Dingell. What the president misunderstands is that cruelty is not wit," she said on December 19 at Capitol Hill.
"Just because he gets a laugh for saying the cruel things that he says doesn't mean he's funny. It's not funny at all. It's very sad," Pelosi added.
The president attacked Rep. Debbie Dingell after she voted in favor of the two articles of impeachment against him. According to him, he had given the family "A-plus treatment" after John Dingell's demise at age 92 in February 2019.