By Page Six | Created at 2025-04-03 21:42:10 | Updated at 2025-04-04 17:26:39
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Republican Meghan McCain ripped into Carrie Coon’s “White Lotus” character as their ongoing online spat over their political differences ramps up.
Season 3 of the hit Max series brought politics to the forefront in the third episode, with Leslie Bibb’s character, Kate, confessing to her pals while on a girls’ trip to Thailand that she voted for President Trump.
Coon — who plays Democrat Laurie, one of the women in the friend group — told the Hollywood Reporter Wednesday that “people like Meghan McCain and her community are really gratified to see a conservative person on television.”
The actress, 44, added, “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.”
McCain, 40, responded to Coon’s remarks via X Thursday, writing, “Yes Carrie, I am ‘gratified’ that the conservative character represented on White Lotus is the responsible, family oriented one not making a fool of herself.”
The former “View” co-host then added in a jab to the Max star’s character, “Unlike the progressive liberal you’re representing who is sleeping with hotel staff and showing her tits to everyone.”
McCain was referencing another scene in the series, in which Laurie gets intoxicated while partying with a hotel staffer and two of his friends, and then flashes everyone when they’re in a private pool at the resort.
Page Six has reached out to Coon’s rep for a response but did not immediately hear back. She also has not addressed McCain’s X post via social media.
The two women have been feuding for the past few weeks, starting with Coon posting via X in March, “Who’s gonna to tell her?” after McCain gushed over Trump’s State of the Union address.
The daughter of late Republican senator John McCain responded at the time with a meme of Kate, Bibb’s character, squinting after she was asked in the “White Lotus” scene whether she voted for Trump, 78.
Coon recently revealed a scrapped sub-plot for her character was going to be a conversation with her friends about her child discovering their gender identity.
“It was only a short scene, but for me, it did make the question [in Episode 3] of whether Kate voted for Trump so much more provocative and personally offensive to Laurie, considering who her child is in the world,” she told Harper’s Bazaar last month.
“But the season was written before the election. And considering the way the Trump administration has weaponized the cultural war against transgender people even more since then, when the time came to cut the episode down, [creator] Mike [White] felt that the scene was so small and the topic so big that it wasn’t the right way to engage in that conversation.”
