Meghan McCain pointed the blame at former President Barack Obama for a culture war in the country and the rise of President Trump.
On Monday’s airing of The View, conservative co-host McCain weighed in on a recent feud between Obama and his successor, saying that she wasn’t surprised by Democrats defending Obama’s jabs at Trump’s leadership.
“Some people are saying that this wasn’t the time or place to get political. What did you think Meghan?” co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked McCain of Obama’s criticism of the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic during livestreamed graduation remarks over the weekend.
“He can get political any time he wants. He’s the former president,” McCain began. “Obviously, everyone on the Left has basically appointed President Obama as nothing short of a saint, and obviously, I feel different, as most Republicans and conservatives do.”
She then said that a “perfect” president would not have paved the way for Trump’s win in 2016, noting that the election results highlight a culture war between values held by conservatives and liberals.
“I will say … the culture war that I believe is real and is raging in this country, I believe, was ushered in with his administration and exacerbated in the Trump administration. And if the election were held today, I do believe Trump would be reelected,” she said. “And I think at a certain point, we have to start talking to each other in the middle, and we have to start talking about the faults on both sides because he was not a perfect president, and I don’t think perfect presidents would have ushered in the era of Trump.”
Goldberg concurred that Obama was not a perfect president but surmised the culture war McCain referenced only began when Republicans were upset Obama was elected to the presidency because of his race.
“This culture war, I’m sure it’s out there because people were kind of shocked I guess when it turned out that Obama was black because I can’t see any other reason other than that to spark a culture war when he came in and took care of the business at hand that needed to be done,” Goldberg said.
