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Tensions were high asDonald Trump Jr.appeared for the first timeThe View, along with girlfriendKimberly Guilfoyle,to markthe show’s 5,000th episode on Thursday.
PresidentDonald Trump‘s oldest son, 41, went on the ABC daytime talk show to discuss his new book,Triggered,and he immediately began to feel the heat from the show’s co-hosts, who grilled him on the ongoing impeachment investigation and his social media behavior.
At one point amid the cross-talk, panelist Joy Behar admonished Don Jr. and Guilfoyle, “Stop yelling!” Moderator Whoopi Goldberg told the table soon after, “Everybody stop, it’s hard to hear.”
“This is not a MAGA rally, okay?” Behar told Don Jr.
Meghan McCain, who has the most contentious relationship with the Trumps given the president’s history of attacking the late Sen.John McCain, her dad, did not speak for the first part of the joint interview.
Don Jr. used his answer to pivot back to what he said were his father’s accomplishments as president but defended him as a “counter-puncher” who was merely responding to what Don Jr. called a historic level of vitriol.
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The Viewpanel confirmed Don Jr. and Guilfoyle’s scheduled appearance on the show last Friday, with audible surprise from the audience.
When they groaned at the news, co-host Sunny Hostin said, “Everyone looks so shocked. Why? We have everyone here.”
Meghan has regularly pushed back at the president because of his repeated criticism of Sen. McCain before and after the Arizona Republican’s death last year.
Once, while speaking with reporters at the White House about Sen. McCain’s decision to vote against Republican efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, Trump said he was “never a fan of John McCain and I never will be.”
Earlier this year, he also retweeted anotherTwitter user who wrote, “Millions of Americans truly LOVE President Trump, not McCain. I’m one! We hated McCain for his ties to the Russian dossier & his vote against repealing Obamacare.”
She also called her father Trump’s “kryptonite” in another episode of the talk show that same month.
“[Trump] spends his weekend obsessing over great men because — he knows it and I know it and all of you know it — he will never be a great man,” Meghan said. “My father was his kryptonite in life, he’s his kryptonite in death.”
From left: President Donald Trump andThe Viewco-host Meghan McCain.SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty; Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic
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Meghan spoke out on Twitter, saying she felt compelled to continue publicly defending her father because the president would not stop attacking him.
President Trumppraised the official behind the effortto hide the McCain ship but said he had no knowledge of it.
source: people.com
