Meghan McCain says she got ‘kicked out’ of restaurant over politics

Meghan McCain endured a culinary crisis during an allegedly harrowing visit to Los Angeles, the conservative political commentator, former The View cohost, and unofficial Princess of Arizona revealed in a new interview with Curb Your Enthusiasm actress Cheryl Hines.

The Citizen McCain talk show hostess welcomed Hines — wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — to her digital platform for a wide-ranging chat about her life and career, and how she navigates both criticism and private support she and RFK Jr. receive from the actress’ liberal circles in Hollywood.

“It is odd to me that some people find it acceptable to just march up to Bobby and yell at him,” Hines said of how her husband, who’s currently serving as the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. “For every person that comes up and yells at him, there are probably a thousand people that come up and say how much they love him and want their picture taken with him. It’s just an odd place. I’ve never experienced that before, and that’s strange.”

McCain took Hines’ words as a cue to reveal, “I’ve been kicked out of restaurants, like, for my politics, and I wasn’t doing anything. It’s a brutal… actually, it happened in L.A.”

Hines’ eyes opened wide in reaction to McCain’s remarks, as she exclaimed, “Oh my god, that is so crazy.”

McCain, the daughter of late Sen. John McCain, continued, adding that “it’s a whole story” and that she “was with another woman who was a conservative pundit, whatever you want to call my job” at the time.

The 40-year-old’s story recalls a recent memory shared by fellow conservative Sean Hannity, who said in August that he fled New York City because he had a “hard time” with people giving him mean looks inside restaurants.

Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for McCain for more information.

McCain then told Hines that, now, “having an association with the Trump administration makes you a target” — an idea Hines partially agreed with.

“It was a hard adjustment in L.A., because there are aspects about it that don’t make sense to me, so even when we’re talking about MAHA — Make America Healthy Again — I have some friends who, they’re very healthy people, and they’d love to have petroleum dyes taken out of food and they’d love to have arsenic taken out,” Hines explained. “But because it’s MAHA, and it feels connected to MAGA, they are furious about it. So, that’s strange to me.”

Hines said she keeps “learning all these little lessons” as she stands by her husband’s side amid his rise into the Trump administration.

“It’s been interesting to see the people that can and cannot separate politics from the entertainment industry,” she said.

McCain added that she “cannot stand” when people approach her to tell her that they love her politics privately, but can’t support her publicly.

She said that, once, a musician even asked her outright to not share their work on her public platforms.

“I kind of feel like you should grow up, we should all grow up, and there’s nothing to be embarrassed about if you’re conservative or you’re MAHA or liberal. We all need to be able to exist together,” McCain said.

“Absolutely” Hines replied. “It doesn’t make me angry, I just feel like, okay, because I’m coming from the entertainment industry, it is a thing. I kind of feel sorry for that person that feels like, oh, it’s too bad you can’t be open about supporting Bobby. But, I also understand. I’m not the person that’s going to out you. I’d be doing that all day. There are a lot of people, even in L.A., that love Bobby, that love the administration, but it is kind of strange that people feel uncomfortable.”

Hines appeared on The View earlier this week, where she navigated the cohosts’ inquiries — particularly from Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg — about her husband’s stances and qualifications to lead a government agency on health.

“I do want to say, you know he’s not a doctor and he’s not a professional?” Goldberg asked Hines, later asking, “I wonder, does it give you pause and are you able to say that might not actually be so, because I’ve got my experience and I’ve lived with this, and I’m still here. Are you able to have those conversations with him?”

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Hostin added, “The problem, respectfully, is that your husband is the least-qualified Department of Health and Human Services head that we’ve had in history.”

Watch McCain’s interview with Hines above.