Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner attracted attention last September when they chose to attend John McCain's funeral even though President Donald Trump wasn't invited. As it turns out, the late senator's daughter was not happy about their decision. In a Thursday interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, Meghan McCain explained her feelings about the Trump family with a Cardi B quote. "I really want it made very clear that the Trumps had beef with me then, and in the words of Cardi B, they're 'going to have beef with me forever,'" McCain told Colbert, referencing the rapper's iconic confrontation with DJ Self on the TV show Love & Hip Hop: New York. Cardi B further popularized the line when she worked it into her 2016 song "Foreva." "I'm not going to forget," McCain continued on Thursday. She explained that she would have preferred it if Ivanka and Kushner had stayed home. "It's sort of a strange element to my life now, that they attended," she said. "I wish they had chosen not to — out of respect, if nothing more, for me. But it's their call, and I think America can judge on its own what they thought of that." The late senator was famously a critic of the president. He condemned the remarks Trump made about Mexican immigrants just after announcing his presidential bid, and things only escalated from there. Trump suggested in July of 2015 that the senator was "not a war hero" because he had been captured by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War. While the senator initially endorsed Trump's run, he ultimately withdrew his support after the Access Hollywood tape scandal. Then he continued to criticize Trump while the president was in office and acted as one of a few key votes that stopped the repeal of Obamacare. The McCain family specifically did not invite Trump to his funeral, even though three former presidents did attend (both President Barack Obama and President George W. Bush gave speeches honoring the late senator). So it came as a surprise to many when the first daughter and her husband showed up. According to The New York Times' Katie Rogers, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) invited them because he thought it would serve as a "nice gesture." McCain recently admitted in a Porter interview that she hadn't known that Ivanka and Kushner would attend, and she reiterated that to Colbert on Thursday. "No, I did not know," she said. "A funeral is obviously a sacred time, and I thought that my family had made it clear — or at least I had — that the Trumps are unwelcome around me, and that my father had been clear about the line between the McCains and the Trumps." She added that their presence made her "uncomfortable," and that "I hope I made them uncomfortable, honestly." McCain peppered her eulogy at the funeral with both subtle and overt critiques of the president. "The America of John McCain has no need to be 'made great again,'" she told the audience, "because America was always great."<doc-sep>CBS The "View" cohost also reveals the one thing that could make her quit the show. Meghan McCain was blindsided when Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump showed up to her father John McCain's funeral last year -- and she hopes they were just as "uncomfortable" with her fiery eulogy as she was with their presence. Appearing on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Thursday night, McCain explained why she was taken aback by their decision to attend, adding that she wishes they had "chosen not to." The "View" cohost made headlines for her passionate words during the ceremony, taking aim at Donald Trump without ever actually saying his name. "We gather to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly," she said. "The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great." "That was somewhat pointed and I have to ask, did you know that Jared and Ivanka Trump would be attending when you wrote this?" Colbert asked his guest. "The answer is no, I did not know that they would be attending his funeral," she explained. "A funeral is a sacred time and I thought that my family had made it clear, at least I had, that the Trumps are unwelcome around me and that my father had been very clear about the line between the McCains the Trumps. So I was surprised when they were there and it made me uncomfortable and I hope I made them uncomfortable, honestly, with everything." "I really want it made very clear that the Trumps had beef with me then and in the words of Cardi B, they're going to have beef with me forever and I'm not gonna forget," she continued. "It's sort of a strange element to my life now that they attended and I wish they had chosen not to, out of respect if nothing more for me, but it's their call and I think America can judge on its own what they thought of that and what they thought of my eulogy." Meghan also explained that her father was the main reason she decided to join "The View," where she's happy to represent other conservative women out there who may not always agree with the current administration. When asked if there was "anybody you like" for 2020, she said Joe Biden, someone who could really make things interesting for her. "I am very curious to see if Joe Biden gets into the race, because I love him on a personal level," she said. "He's such a beloved American figure." She mentioned that the two families have such a strong bond, as both John McCain and Biden's son Beau died of the same cancer. "We have this really strange and intense bond and I love him dearly," she continued, "So if he becomes the nominee I'm going to have to quit television because I can't say anything bad about him." "Maybe that'll be good for those of you who don't like me on 'The View,'" she joked.<doc-sep>Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” host Meghan McCain reacted to reports that President Donald Trump insulted her late father, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) during lunch with TV anchors and then spoke of bipartisanship during his State of the Union address. McCain said, “What was hard for me last night, I was prepping and getting ready and reading my notes beforehand and I get a notice that President Trump had a meeting with the network heads and he had called senator Chuck Schumer a nasty son of a bitch, Joe Biden dumb, said some disparaging things once again of my father who passed five and a half months ago. So for me when he’s talking about ‘we must reject the politics of revenge, resistance, and retribution,’ you aren’t being bipartisan mere hours earlier obsessing over people you consider your enemies. So for me it was a kabuki theater, virtue signal, the entire speech last night towards his base, but please don’t sit here and tell me you are grasping for bipartisanship at this moment when Chuck Schumer as a son of a bitch and my father’s book ‘bombed’ and Joe Biden is ‘dumb.’” Co-host Joy Behar added, “How pathetic do you have to be to go after somebody who is dead. My God.” Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN<doc-sep>
Meghan McCain didn’t know that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner would attend her father’s funeral — and she wishes they hadn’t. “It made me uncomfortable,” McCain told Stephen Colbert when she was a guest on “The Late Show” Thursday night. “And I hope I made them uncomfortable, honestly.” McCain, a co-host of “The View,” also said that she is very much a conservative — but that if former Vice President Joe Biden runs for president and gets the Democratic nomination, “I’m going to have to quit television because I can’t say anything bad about him.” Colbert noted that it was McCain’s first visit to “The Late Show” since her father, U.S. Sen. John McCain, died in August. “I’m sorry for your loss and the loss of our nation,” Colbert said. “He was a great man.” Colbert then discussed McCain’s eulogy at the memorial service for her father, and asked if she knew Kushner and Trump would be there. (The McCain family had stated before the senator’s death that President Donald Trump wasn’t invited to the memorial. The two men often feuded, and during Trump’s presidential campaign, he said of McCain, “I like people that weren’t captured,” a reference to McCain’s years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.) “I didn’t actually think about who would be attending the funeral, strangely,” McCain said. “The answer is no, I did not know they would be attending his funeral. … I thought that my family had made it clear, or at least I had, that the Trumps are unwelcome around me, and that my father had been very clear about the line between the McCains and the Trumps. So I was surprised when they were there.” It doesn’t sound as if time has healed any of the wounds, either. “I really want it made very clear that the Trumps have beef with me then, and in the words of Cardi B, they’re going to have beef with me forever, and I’m not going to forget,” she said. “It’s sort of a strange element to my life, now, that they attended. I wish they had chosen not to, out of respect, if nothing more, for me. “But it’s their call. I think America can judge on its own what they thought of that, and what they thought of my eulogy.” More:'View' host Meghan McCain on her 'horrible' grief: 'I’m in therapy, I’m in counseling' More:Meghan McCain clarifies her politics on 'The View': 'I consider myself a conservative first'