Barack Obama's administration brought about the election of President Donald Trump, Meghan McCain said on ABC's "The View" on Monday.
"The culture war that I believe is real, and is raging in this country, I believe was ushered in with [Obama's] administration, and then exacerbated in the Trump administration," she said.
McCain added, "if the election were held today, I do believe Trump would be re-elected, 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 [Obama] was not a perfect president. And I don't think a perfect president would have ushered in the era of Trump."
Her comments came after the other hosts of the show praised Obama for his harsh criticism of Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and said it reminded them of when a president was compassionate, empathetic, reassuring, and intelligent.
McCain, however, slammed this view, saying "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."
Whoopi Goldberg responded by saying, "I don't think people are holding up Obama. I think they miss him. They miss Clinton, you know, you've heard people say they miss Bush. They miss that thing that you – whether you agreed with somebody or not, you never questioned how they felt about the country."
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