Stephen Colbert reminded Meghan McCain on Thursday's Late Show that he hadn't seen her since her father, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), died in August, and he wanted to "say I'm sorry for your loss and for the loss of our nation. He was a great man, and you spoke so eloquently at his funeral." He read part of her eulogy: "We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly." "That was somewhat pointed," he noted, "and I have to ask: Did you know that Jared and Ivanka Trump would be attending when you wrote this?"
"When we were working on it, I didn't actually think about who would be attending the funeral, strangely," McCain said. "And the answer is no, I did not know they would be attending his funeral. ... And I thought that my family had made it clear, at least I had, that the Trumps are unwelcome around me, and that my father had been sort of very clear about the line between the McCains and the Trumps. So I was surprised when they were there, and it made me uncomfortable, and I hope I made them uncomfortable, honestly, with everything."
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