Meghan McCain has announced she is leaving the talk show The View on July 30 after four years. Most people are happy to see the end of her time on the show.
So people were equally, if not more, happy when she hinted on the air she might be leaving Twitter as well, the site of many of her most frowned upon transgressions.
Meghan McCain says she may leave Twitter soon. #TheView\n\n\u201cWhen I leave this show, I may quit Twitter the same day.\u201dpic.twitter.com/7WF6VECvOZ— Justice Dominguez (@Justice Dominguez) 1626881436
McCain pointed to the pandemic as a turning point for the platform:
"I have a lot of followers on there and it's been an incredible, you know, platform, to, you know, talk to people and read the news and everything, but definitely in the past year, since the pandemic, it's become a noticeably more darker, uglier place."
She took her sentiments online as well:
Some of you assholes who spend your pathetic existing writing and distorting what I say every SINGLE day on the view really better start thinking of an exit strategy on how you\u2019re gonna get your clicks and hits when I\u2019m gone in 3 weeks\u2026— Meghan McCain (@Meghan McCain) 1626737672
Most people's responses bordered on "don't threaten me with a good time."
Meghan McCain is threatening to leave Twitter, and to take a job as the person who answers the phone at any Customer Service hotlinepic.twitter.com/5xLxQWKDlJ— Paul Rudnick (@Paul Rudnick) 1626889459
\u201cStay tune for me quitting Twitter when I quit the show.\u201d \n\nMeghan McCain probably should. Her and her husband continuously troll folks that don\u2019t agree with views in the most egregious way. #TheView— Chanteezy \ud83d\udc9b\u2649\ufe0f (@Chanteezy \ud83d\udc9b\u2649\ufe0f) 1626880872
Republicans like Meghan McCain were perfectly fine with twitter until we started calling out their racist comments, white supremacist empathy and misinformation during a global pandemic. #TheViewpic.twitter.com/BoL521Tkq3— ClockOutWars (@ClockOutWars) 1626881750
Meghan McCain just announced that she may be leaving Twitter when she leaves The View! It\u2019s Christmas in July!— Helene Lefebvre\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83e\udd1c\ud83e\udd1b\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Helene Lefebvre\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83e\udd1c\ud83e\udd1b\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1626880840
Hip hip hooray!! \nMeghan McCain may quit Twitter the same day she quits the show. \nGreat idea Meghan.— Melinda Moore (@Melinda Moore) 1626884399
Aside from the fact that McCain's last day is now less than two weeks away, not three weeks away, McCain's time on Twitter has not been without controversy.
In March, McCain went viral when she said that she was concerned that a relief package for farmers, which specifically named farmers of color who are socially disadvantaged as a beneficiaries of the plan, did not include a provision for women.
"We've only had one Asian American host co-host host this show. Does that mean one of us should be leaving because there's not enough representation? We're talking about -- is identity politics more important than the qualifications for the job?"
This moment was heavily mocked, as McCain's "qualifications" are generally thought of as the product of nepotism via her father, late Senator John McCain.
OMG. Your words... they wound me. (For real, did I have a stroke? "your pathetic existing"? What??)\nNo seriously, I'm counting the days.\nBYE!... \nno, I said BYE! \nWhy are you still here??https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1417266639029030915\u00a0\u2026— Griff Greymuzzle (@Griff Greymuzzle) 1626921387
Girly we do it for free!!!!! no doubt you will continue with your nonsense even off air!!! The entitlement runs deep with you and therefore the content does too! Xxhttps://twitter.com/meghanmccain/status/1417266639029030915\u00a0\u2026— Gail Persimmons (@Gail Persimmons) 1626919336
This is such a self-centered tweet. Now you suggest folks need to watch you until you leave the show. AS IF !?? I watched the View for Whoopie, Joy, Barbara, guests & news. 3 truly gifted draws not a live manufactured outrage . Geez ! Have a brain child. plz!https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1417266639029030915\u00a0\u2026— Rosalind Wriddle (@Rosalind Wriddle) 1626901910
This trash #twittertroll @MeghanMcCain while proclaiming others are the problem. https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1417266639029030915\u00a0\u2026— Penny K Hayes (@Penny K Hayes) 1626889796
McCain has also been threatening to quit Twitter for at least the past 11 years, including a complaint from 2010 when she said she would leave the platform over a photograph.
You talked on the show today that when you get done with the view you will probably quit Twitter. Why wait? Do it now!— Deb Hillman (@Deb Hillman) 1626899108
Yes @MeghanMcCain you should quit #TheView and Twitter it would make me so happy.— MagicalUnicorns Artist (@MagicalUnicorns Artist) 1626880826
Hey Meghan McCain\u2026 Twitter may seem dark to you because we\u2019re calling you out on your lies that literally do real damage to our nation!! Bye Felicia. There are consequences to your free speech and your end on the view and if you leave Twitter, then there\u2019s your consequences!pic.twitter.com/f74XPseoSR— Its Me Audra (@Its Me Audra) 1626880875
I\u2019m very certain the majority of Twitter would gladly delete Meghan McCain\u2019s account for her so the question is, today or tomorrow? #TheViewpic.twitter.com/XKfAUSBDs0— \u2728 (@\u2728) 1626884216
@MeghanMcCain is not only leaving #TheView, but she is leaving Twitter! Confetti!!pic.twitter.com/mxKklkcA6E— \ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\udf0aAnthony Spina\ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\udf0a (@\ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\udf0aAnthony Spina\ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\udf0a) 1626880810
McCain's threat has the tone of great promise for most of the internet, but it still remains to be seen if she will act on it.
