Here’s how to make sureMeghan McCaindoes not return your phone call: Ask her to be on your reality show — and be namedDonald Trump.
“I was asked to be onThe Apprenticeseveral times and said no,” McCain recalls.
Once, she says, “He [Trump] left a voice message and I didn’t call back. I didn’t want to be an Apprentice. Like, the whole thing, I didn’t like all of it.”
It was several years ago, so she doesn’t remember all the details, but she says Trump had called her about appearing on the show sometime after 2009, when she was writing for The Daily Beast following her late father Sen.John McCain‘s 2008 presidential bid.
“I thought it was a dumb show,” Meghan, 35, says. “No offense.” She notes, almost wryly: “My dear close friend Clay Aiken came in second, so I shouldn’t talk too much s— about it.”
WhileThe Apprenticelaunched in 2004 with aspiring entrepreneurs vying for a spot at Trump’s real estate company, it morphed in later years into a celebrity version.American Idol‘s Aiken competed, as did singer Trace Adkins, comedian Joan Rivers and others.
(A Trump Organization spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment about Meghan being asked to be onThe Apprentice;the White House had no comment.)
Meghan McCain.Heidi Gutman/Getty Images
Meghan says theApprenticepitch was not the only time Trump called her: He also reached out in the wake of one of his many criticisms of her father, who was a regular Trump detractor and famously voted against Trump’s push to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Trump has continued to attack Sen. McCain even after his death from brain cancer last year.
After one such dust-up, “He called to say that it was fake news,” according to Meghan.
The president is open that he is“never a fan”of the late senator, even going so far as toquestion his military service in the Vietnam War.
President Donald Trump.JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty
Meghan, in turn, hasn’t hesitated in defending her dad, speaking out about it often onThe View.
Trump “spends his weekend obsessing over great men because he knows it and I know it and all of you know it: He will never be a great man,” Meghan saidin an episode in March. “I genuinely feel bad for his family.”
Speaking with PEOPLE, Meghan says her parents wouldn’t have let her appear onThe Apprenticeanyways, back when Trump called to ask her. Personally, she’s “a giant consumer of all reality television.” But her on-camera time right now is enough.
“I don’t want a camera on me all the time, I’m plenty — one hour a day is just fine.”
source: people.com
