Meghan McCain: Ivanka Trump should have stayed away from father’s funeral ‘out of respect for me’

“I thought that my family had made it clear, or at least I had, that the Trumps are unwelcome around me, and that my father had been sort of very clear about the line between the McCains and the Trumps,” she said.

She discussed her father’s funeral, where she gave a fiery eulogy that took aim at President Trump.

“The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great,” she said in September.

On Friday, she said she was surprised to see members of the Trump family at the state funeral for her father, a prisoner of war during the Vietnam conflict and a Republican statesman, which took place at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. While the president did not attend, his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, both White House advisers, attended.

“And it made me uncomfortable, and I hope I made them uncomfortable, honestly, with everything,” she said.

McCain acknowledged her statements were a bit awkward.

“It’s a weird thing to talk about on the late-night show, but I also know my father was always if nothing a ham, and he designed his funeral to be bridging for America, to be healing,” she said.

The host also invoked rapper Cardi B, who made headlines last month for her castigation of the partial government shutdown that left more than 800,000 federal employees either furloughed without a paycheck or working without pay.

“I really want it made very clear that the Trumps had beef with me then, and in the words of Cardi B, they’re going to have beef with me forever. And I’m not going to forget,’ she said. “It’s sort of a strange element to my life now that they attended, and I wish that they had chosen not to out of respect for me, if nothing else. But it’s their call, and I think America can judge on its own what they thought of that and what they thought of my eulogy.”