“Sure Carrie, I’m ‘gratified’ that the conservative character represented on White Lotus is the accountable, household oriented one not making a idiot of herself,” McCain stated, poking enjoyable at Coon’s liberal character on the present.
Meghan McCain is firing again at Carrie Coon after her current feedback concerning the political dynamic between pals, Laurie, Jaclyn and Kate on The White Lotus.
Season 3 of the hit Max collection introduced politics to the forefront within the third episode when Leslie Bibb’s character, Kate, confessed to her pals throughout their ladies’ journey to Thailand that she voted for President Trump.
Coon touched on the tense second within the collection throughout a dialog with The Hollywood Reporter Wednesday, telling the outlet that “individuals like Meghan McCain and her neighborhood are actually gratified to see a conservative individual on tv.”
“I’ve conservative individuals in my life who reached out to me to say that was an superior dialog, as a result of I do not suppose it vilifies Kate,” she added.
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McCain responded to Coon’s remarks by way of X Thursday, writing, “Sure Carrie, I’m ‘gratified’ that the conservative character represented on White Lotus is the accountable, household oriented one not making a idiot of herself.”
Taking one other jab on the Coon’s character, the previous View co-host added, “Not like the progressive liberal you are representing who’s sleeping with resort workers and displaying her t-ts to everybody.”
Sure Carrie, I’m “gratified” that the conservative character represented on White Lotus is the accountable, household oriented one not making a idiot of herself.
Not like the progressive liberal you are representing who’s sleeping with resort workers and displaying her tits to everybody. https://t.co/wRbv0JG7hN
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) April 3, 2025
@MeghanMcCain
The second McCain was referencing occurred throughout one other episode within the collection, which sees Laurie and her pals getting drunk whereas partying with a resort staffer and two of his pals, earlier than flashing everybody after they’re in a personal pool on the resort.
The back-and-forth marked the newest within the feud between the pair, which began with Coon taking to X final month after McCain applauded Trump’s State of the Union tackle.
“That is the primary time I can bear in mind crying throughout a state of the union. Thanks President Trump. That is so stunning,” McCain tweeted. “Anybody who has been impacted by mind most cancers is aware of how particular that is.”
“Who’s gonna to inform her?” Coon wrote, re-tweeting McCain’s speech, after it was revealed the Trump administration can be making main cuts to healthcare, together with most cancers analysis.
Who’s gonna inform her? https://t.co/hBI8v7MVTx
— Carrie Coon (@carriecoon) March 5, 2025
@carriecoon
The daughter of late Republican senator John McCain responded on the time with a meme of Bibb’s character, Kate, squinting after she was requested within the White Lotus scene whether or not she voted for Trump.
Whereas the present did not revisit the group’s political stances after that episode, there was a plot-line Coon reveals was lower after Trump entered workplace, that detailed her little one discovering their gender identification.
“It was solely a brief scene, however for me, it did make the query [in Episode 3] of whether or not Kate voted for Trump a lot extra provocative and personally offensive to Laurie, contemplating who her little one is on the earth,” she informed Harper’s Bazaar final month.
Coon continued, “However the season was written earlier than the election. And contemplating the way in which the Trump administration has weaponized the cultural warfare towards transgender individuals much more since then, when the time got here to chop the episode down, TooFab Workers Mike [White] felt that the scene was so small and the subject so large that it wasn’t the best solution to have interaction in that dialog.”
The season finale of The White Lotus streams this Sunday on Max.
