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Conservative commentator Meghan McCain shared this week on her podcast, “Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain,” that she really likes President Donald Trump’s “tone” during his second term, revealing that she effectively buried the hatchet after receiving a kind message from him.
After years of contentious relations between the McCain family and Trump, the former host of “The View” and the daughter of Sen. The late John McCain said they made peace.
McCain, a friend of Tulsi Gabbard, said he was invited to the Trump White House when Gabbard was confirmed as Director of National Intelligence. There were “behind the scenes” discussions that took place on whether it was appropriate for him to attend, given their previous status, and it required Trump’s permission to attend.
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According to McCain, Trump responded that he was welcome. She added that Trump had sent her and her husband Ben Domenech a “very kind and beautiful” private message that she would keep to herself.
“And I was like, of all the things that have happened, of all the things that have been said and done, this is so kind,” she said.
Trump said at a memorial in 2015 that Sen. McCain was not a true war hero because he was captured in Vietnam and continued to criticize him before and after his death. John McCain, who died in 2018, did not support Trump’s presidential campaign and famously was the deciding vote against his repeal of Obamacare in 2017.
Meghan McCain once said Trump would never be a “great man” like his father in response to a social media post that disparaged him during his first term. In 2024, he said that he will not be able to vote for Trump even though he is against Kamala Harris.
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McCain added, “I’ve heard this from other people that [Trump] be very kind to other people who may have had things happen in the past that didn’t go down well.”
Speaking to his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, McCain asked if this might be because of his second term, age, or stage of life the president is in, but said that overall, he has seen a “softer” side to Trump.
McCain thought that these incidents and the soft side of the president may have come from the assassination attempts.
President Donald Trump raises his fist as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on April 16, 2026. (Jim Watson/AFP)
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Lara Trump said the president told his family that he believes people will follow him if he achieves his goals in office.
“I think when you have these moments where your life could be changed or ended, I don’t think you can take it all down,” she said. “I think he 100% had a huge impact on him.”
Trump was shot in the ear at a rally in Butler, Penn., in July 2024, in an assassination attempt that killed one of his supporters in the crowd. Another attempt on his life that year failed in Florida before the shots were fired.
