The decade-long Trump-McCain feud is over
By Oli Coleman
Published Feb. 14, 2025, 6:09 p.m. ET
A bitter feud — which began in 2015 when Donald Trump said of former POW John McCain “I like people who weren’t captured” — is over, Page Six is told.
Trump wasn’t invited to the senator’s funeral in 2018, and the then-president fumed afterward that he didn’t get a “thank you” for Sen. McCain’s state funeral.
McCain was also, famously, gave his “thumbs down” vote against Trump’s attempt to repeal Obamacare.
Sen. McCain’s daughter, political analyst and commentator Meghan McCain, had been particularly furious about the stunning digs, defending her father and calling Trump “a piece of sh*t, election-denying huckster.”
His widow, Cindy, said in 2018 that she didn’t know if she’d “ever get over” the broadsides.
But Beltway insiders tell us that the process of confirming Trump’s intel pick Tulsi Gabbard has ended the standoff.
Gabbard is a close friend of the former the “View” co-host (she’s even Godmother to one of Meghan’s kids) — and Meghan went to bat to get the former Democrat rubber stamped as the Director of National Intelligence.
“She called around senators and talked to holdouts,” said an insider, “she went on Hannity to defend her and wrote an op-ed for the Spectator.”
And apparently the effort wasn’t lost on the President.
“The White House thanked Meghan for her help in bringing moderates around to Gabbard,” said a source.
McCain and her Spectator editor husband Ben Domenech were invited to her swearing in ceremony in the Oval Office, and by the end of the week, we’re told she even got a personal message of thanks from Trump via an aide.
“Their feud is definitely starting to dissolve,” said a source, “Meghan been supportive of MAGA in many ways besides [supporting] Trump himself because of the way he talked about her dad.”
https://pagesix.com/2025/02/14/gossip/the-decade-long-trump-mccain-feud-is-over/
