Meghan McCain called for her co-hosts to show “compassion” for Melania Trump after the ladies speculated that the first lady looked unhappy at the State of the Union Address.
The comments came during “The View” Wednesday after Whoopi Goldberg talked about the first lady breaking tradition Tuesday night when she arrived for the event separately from President Donald Trump.
“She did not, I thought, look all that happy to be there, but maybe it was just me,” Goldberg stated.
“I don’t think she was happy at all,” Sunny Hostin responded.”And you know, it seems to me that she’s been kind of trolling him. In her way.”
“What does this mean, trolling him?” Goldberg asked.
“Like throwing low-key shade at him,” Hostin replied. “She hasn’t appeared publicly with him. She appeared separately from him. She wasn’t standing and clapping.”
“I don’t know that she’s very happy, Whoopi. She seems very upset,” Yvette Nicole Brown jumped in. “I don’t know what could be happening right now in their marriage that she would be upset about, though.”
“Yeah, I mean, stormy weather, perhaps,” Hostin said.
“I feel bad for her right now because she still is so new, politically speaking, in her role as first lady,” McCain interjected. “She came separately from him, which I thought was highly unusual, like they arrived and left separately. Apparently Hillary Clinton did it when Bill Clinton was president as well, so it isn’t unprecedented.”
“She is being put in this untenable situation, and I felt real compassion for her last night, because I put myself in my mother’s position at different times where she’s had to go out publicly, and I know what it looks like backstage where maybe there are family dynamics that are more complicated. And you’re like, put a game face on and go out there and smile. And this is the State of the Union. And I did feel bad for her. She looked absolutely stunning. I hope we have compassion for her because we don’t know what’s going on.”