White Lotus actress in weird Twitter spat with Meghan McCain over Trump

Actress Carrie Coon added to her ongoing war of words as she responded to Meghan McCain’s remarks about HBO’s “The White Lotus.”

The back and forth began last month when Coon posted on X, “Who’s gonna tell her?” after McCain’s post about President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress.

McCain, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain and former co-host on “The View,” clapped back with a meme of one of the show’s characters.

https://t.co/NjYQgUHcYZ pic.twitter.com/112hrR3Gxc

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) March 7, 2025

McCain then posted that she couldn’t “decide if I should still watch White Lotus tonight since one of the stars decided to tweet some nasty crap at me,” referring to Coon who plays Laurie Duffy on the hit show.

Can’t decide if I should still watch White Lotus tonight since one of the stars decided to tweet some nasty crap at me this week for liking Trumps address to the nation.

What do we think?

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) March 9, 2025

Podcast host Megyn Kelly urged her fellow conservative to “Watch it anyway.”

“Virtually every star in every movie and TV show hates conservatives, who could watch nothing if the prerequisite were: the ppl on screen could possibly like me or be like me,” Kelly wrote.

Coon discussed the HBO show’s third season with The Hollywood Reporter, bringing McCain’s name into her remarks.

“I do think people like Meghan McCain and her community are really gratified to see a conservative person on television,” Coon said. “I have conservative people in my life who reached out to me to say that was an awesome conversation, because I don’t think it vilifies Kate.”

One of the show’s scenes featured Coon as Laurie, Leslie Bibb as Kate, and Michelle Monaghan as Jaclyn having a political discussion in which Kate revealed she is a MAGA supporter.

“He does have an uncanny ability to instantly be part of the zeitgeist. That’s what was amazing about the Trump scene,” Bibb told The Hollywood Reporter in discussing the show’s creator Mike White. “They were supposed to shoot this season in 2023. Then the writers’ strike happened. So, he wrote that scene in, what, 2022? Even when we filmed it, I was like, ‘Is this going to feel dated by the time it airs?’”

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