It isn’t hard to imagine that Meghan McCain won’t be making a visit to Broadway anytime soon.
The daughter of late Senator John McCain (R-AZ) slammed the production of a new play mocking her father as part of an examination into the brain of former President Donald Trump. The former president frequently used McCain as a foil both on the campaign trail and in the White House.
“This is trash – nothing more than a gross cash grab by mediocre desperate people,” Meghan wrote on X, quoting a Deadline story about the play titled “The Ghost of John McCain.”
“I hope it bombs,” she added.
A synopsis for the show claims it is “a musical comedy set inside the brain of Donald Trump that got under the skin of Meghan McCain.”
In the play, McCain arrives in the afterlife only to discover that he is inside Trump’s brain and surrounded by tragic figures like Hillary Clinton, Roy Cohn, Eva Peron, Teddy Roosevelt, Robert Jordan and Lindsey Graham as they rebel against their former friend, according to Deadline.
The feud between President Trump and the McCains goes back as far as 2015 when the Republican leader called the former senator a “loser” because he was captured and tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
“I like people who weren’t captured,” Trump said at the time according to POLITICO, saying McCain was not a hero and couldn’t even lift up one arm as a result of the ordeal.
“But John McCain, for some reason, couldn’t get his arm up that day. Remember? He goes, like that. And that was the end of that,” Trump joked.
As a member of “The View” during President Trump’s first term, Meghan McCain frequently attacked him in the run-up to the election and continues to do so.
“Trump is a piece of ****, election-denying huckster whose own wife won’t campaign with him,” the former co-host said at the time. “My dad was an American hero. An icon. A patriot that will be remembered throughout history.”
“The Ghost of John McCain” production’s team includes political strategist Jason Rose and longtime campaign consultant, Max Rose, according to the New York Post.