Everybody has that bizarre uncle who fully creeps them out — and we suppose that features Meghan McCain.
The previous co-host of “The View” — who has recognized Sen. Lindsey Graham since she was little one, although they’re not really associated — exhibited disgust when the South Carolina Republican publicly tried to kiss President Donald Trump’s butt on Tuesday.
Earlier within the day, Graham took to X, previously Twitter, to share a clip of Trump telling reporters — hopefully jokingly — that he’d wish to succeed Pope Francis, who died earlier this month.
“I’d like to be pope,” Trump stated with a sly smile. “That would be my No. 1 choice.”
Trump then rapidly modified his tune, indicating he could possibly be kidding.
“No, I don’t know. I don’t have a preference,” the president stated earlier than mentioning Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York. Dolan, a conservative with a sketchy previous, is the president’s “favorite cardinal” and delivered the standard prayer at Trump’s first-term and second-term inaugurations. He’s additionally one in all 10 American cardinals eligible to vote within the Vatican conclave to elect the following pope on Might 7.
Though it’s unlikely that Dolan or Trump will turn out to be the pinnacle of the Catholic church, it didn’t cease Graham from publicly expressing his fantasy of President Chaos Monster having much more unbridled energy.
“I was excited to hear that President Trump is open to the idea of being the next Pope,” Graham wrote on X.
“This would truly be a dark horse candidate, but I would ask the papal conclave and Catholic faithful to keep an open mind about this possibility!”
He added, “The first Pope-U.S. President combination has many upsides. Watching for white smoke…. Trump MMXXVIII!”
MMXXVIII is the Roman numeral for 2028 — indicating that Graham want to see Pope Trump run for a 3rd presidential time period.
It’s unclear if Graham’s tweet was his concept of humor or if he was partaking in unabashed bootlicking. However it appears that evidently McCain felt it was the latter.
“Lindsey – get a grip,” McCain wrote Tuesday whereas retweeting his publish.
Graham was as soon as a detailed good friend of McCain’s father, the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Meghan McCain had beforehand publicly likened Graham to an “uncle.”
However following the 2016 election, Graham swiftly shifted from a Trump critic to loyal apologist. This was regardless of Trump relentlessly attacking John McCain, even after his demise in 2018.
Since then, Meghan McCain has soured on Graham.
“Lindsey Graham may consider himself a member of my family,” Meghan McCain tweeted in 2021. “But he is not and hasn’t been for a very long time.”
