Meghan McCain calls Trump drama 'emotionally exhausting' after new John McCain remarks

Meghan McCain is once again addressing President Donald Trump's remarks about her father, the late Sen. John McCain, and she is over it.

"I don't like coming here every day and having to do this," she said seated around "The View" table Thursday. "As all of you know, it's extremely emotionally exhausting."

Trump delivered an extended attack Wednesday on Sen. McCain over longstanding disputes between the two men ranging from health care to foreign policy.

"I have to be honest, I never liked him much," Trump said during a speech at a military tank plant in Lima, Ohio, that was focused on the economy. "I probably never will."

"I endorsed him at his request and I gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president I had to approve," Trump said. "I don't care about this, I didn’t get 'thank you.' That’s OK."

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Meghan McCain, who has six siblings, then referenced her sister Bridget's tweets from Wednesday directed at the president.

"@realDonaldTrump Everyone doesn’t have to agree with my dad or like him, but I do ask you to be decent and respectful," wrote the 27-year-old. "If you can’t do those two things, be mindful. We only said goodbye to him almost 7 months ago."

"@realDonaldTrump Even if you were invited to my dad’s funeral, you would have only wanted to be there for the credit and not for any condolences," she said in a follow-up tweet. "Unfortunately, you could not be counted on to be courteous, as you are a child in the most important role the world knows."

"Now, I think it's very brave of her. She's very young, and she does not speak publicly," "The View" co-host said, lauding her sister's posts.

"I don't expect decency and compassion from the Trump family. I do want to thank the American public for all the decency and compassion that they have given us," McCain added. "Do not feel sorry for my family."

Looking to "take this awful moment and turn it into something positive," she suggested to viewers: "If you want to get involved and do something good out of all of this toxicity, go check out (Achilles International Freedom Team)."

President Trump told reporters Tuesday that he was "never a fan" of Sen. McCain, who died last August.

"I think if I had told my dad, 'seven months after you're dead, you're going to be dominating the news and all over Twitter,' he would think it was hilarious that our president was so jealous of him that he was dominating the news cycle in death as well," McCain said Wednesday on "The View."

McCain also thanked her talk show co-hosts and "The View" staff for their "real sisterhood and support" since her father's death last summer.

"Do not feel bad for me and my family," she said, referencing Trump's comments. "We are blessed; we are a family of privilege. Feel bad for people out there who are being bullied that don't have support, that don't have the women of 'The View' to come out and support their family. There are kids committing suicide because of cyber bullying online, there are people going through rough times, there are veterans who come back – we have 20 veterans a day committing suicide – focus on these issues. These are the issues I beg the White House to pay attention to."

Meghan McCain's response to Trump comes a day after her mother, Cindy McCain, revealed a hateful, explicit message she had received on social media about her late husband. The message called John McCain a "traitorous piece of warmongering (expletive)," which Cindy said she posted to "make sure all of you could see how kind and loving a stranger can be."

Contributing: Michael Collins, John Fritze, David Jackson and Erin Jensen

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