Meghan McCain slammed a guest on Tucker Carlson’s podcast who claimed her late father, John McCain, was gay.
“They had a guest on who, among other things, talked about how my dad was gay because of his foreign policy — or there was [nothing] gayer than my dad’s foreign policy,” Meghan, 41, said during the Monday, December 8, episode of her “Citizen McCain” podcast. She was referring to the Wednesday, December 3, episode of Carlson’s podcast, which featured far-right commentator Milos Yiannopoulos.
“My dad had five children, was married twice,” Meghan explained. “He was married to two women, and not to make this weird for everybody, but he was, like, a notorious ladies’ man before he got married. He actually dated a stripper when he was in college at the Naval Academy. It’s a story that’s in his book, I’m not speaking out of turn. It was, like, a little mild controversy when he ran for office.”
She concluded, “I don’t care. My dad really loved women. Apparently, everyone’s gay, according to this commentator.”
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Yiannopoulos, also 41, described the late senator’s foreign policy as gay while speaking to Carlson, 56, earlier this month.
“I’m not saying he was a practicing homosexual physically, but is there anything gayer than John McCain’s bloodlust?” he said. “I mean, he’s even got the fat friend. It’s his daughter. … He even bred the fat best friend. Is there a more ostentatious f** hag in America than Meghan McCain? You know, she hates herself. She’s fat. She’s crazy. She’s every gay man’s dream.”
Meghan previously clapped back at Yiannopoulos’ fat-shaming comments via X, noting that she is currently pregnant with her and husband Ben Domenech’s third baby.
“I am aware on the most recent episode of Tucker Carlson’s show a subject of conversation with his guest was my weight – particularly how fat I am,” she wrote via X on Thursday, December 4. “Yes, I am very fat, I’m almost 9 months pregnant with my third child. I am also very happy.”
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She added, “I don’t care how many times Tucker talks about being a Christian, that is not Christian behavior to engage in such a conversation on one of the largest podcasts in the world. This kind of meanness to women and hypocrisy is a classic example of why the right has such a problem with women voters of my generation. Don’t feel bad for me, people have been calling me fat since I started in media at age 22. It is old, lazy, tired. I don’t make my living off of ugliness like that and truly can’t fathom what life is like for anyone who does. It must be very dark.”
Meghan further addressed Yiannopoulos’ comments about her body on Monday, explaining that she has faced fat-shaming since she became a public figure.
“I have been fat-shamed in my career since I started in media,” she said. “People really have a real hard-on about the fact that I’m not skinny. I don’t know why it’s so threatening in the age of Ozempic and hyper diets and whatever … these are disgusting trolls and it’s disgusting commentary.”
