Meghan McCain hopes her father is having a nonpartisan afterlife.
The View host slammed efforts by some on social media attempting to tie her father, the late Sen. John McCain, to the Biden-Harris administration via religious artwork. Juxtaposing a picture of her father smiling over the newly inaugurated president and vice president with another painting of former President Donald Trump being guided by the hands of Jesus, McCain shared her thoughts in a tweet on Tuesday evening.
“I am creeped out by both of these photos and wish people would stop sending me the one [on] the right because the last thing I hope my dad is doing in the afterlife is literally anything having to do with politics,” she wrote.
I am creeped out by both of these photos and wish people would stop sending me the one the right because the last thing I hope my dad is doing in the afterlife is literally anything having to do with politics. https://t.co/U6EMqa4Py6
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) January 26, 2021
McCain’s dismissal of the painting comes weeks after the Arizona Republican Party voted to censure her mother, Cindy McCain, for her endorsement of the Biden-Harris ticket in last year’s presidential contest. The elder McCain called the censure a “badge of honor.”
“It is a high honor to be included in a group of Arizonans who have served our state and our nation so well … and who, like my late husband John, have been censured by the AZGOP,” she said on Twitter.
The late senator was censured by the state party in 2014 for what the GOP described as a liberal voting record in the United States Senate.
A seeming feud between the McCain family and Trump stretches back years, with the former president famously criticizing the late senator’s war record.
“John McCain is not a ‘war hero.’ He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured,” Trump said during the 2016 presidential race.
The late Arizona senator returned fire, tanking the GOP’s prospects of passing healthcare reform in July 2017, during which the Republican Party controlled all three branches of government.
The conflict came to a head during the 2020 Democratic National Convention, when Cindy McCain endorsed President Biden’s candidacy.
“My husband and Vice President Biden enjoyed a 30+ year friendship dating back to before their years serving together in the Senate, so I was honored to accept the invitation from the Biden campaign to participate in a video celebrating their relationship,” Cindy McCain tweeted ahead of the segment featured in the convention programming.
Cindy McCain, who recently referred to herself as a “proud lifelong Republican,” vowed to “continue to support candidates who put country over party and stand for the rule of law.”
