Carrie Coon and Meghan McCain Trade Barbs in Ongoing Feud About ‘White Lotus’ Character

Carrie Coon and Meghan McCain continue to trade jabs on social media over the portrayal of a conservative character on The White Lotus.

“Let me tell you, if I were on a hit tv show on HBO the last thing I would be doing is spending my time fighting with conservatives for weeks,” McCain, 40, wrote in her latest message to Coon, 44, on Friday, April 4.

Their feud dates back to President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress in March, when McCain took to X to thank him for comments in his speech.

“This is the first time I can remember crying during a state of the union,” McCain wrote via X at the time. “Thank you President Trump. This is so beautiful. Anyone who has been impacted by brain cancer knows how special this is.” (The address wasn’t officially a State of the Union, as it came just weeks after Trump was sworn in.)

Coon quoted that post with, “Who’s gonna tell her?” seeming to refer to Trump’s decision to cut funding for cancer research. McCain responded to Coon’s post by quoting it with a screenshot of Kate (Leslie Bibb) from White Lotus.

Just days before the speech, fictional character Kate admitted to voting for Trump on the show.

McCain also posted that she wasn’t sure if she should continue watching White Lotus because “one of the stars decided to tweet some nasty crap at me.”

Coon addressed Bibb’s character and called out McCain by name in a story for The Hollywood Reporter, published Wednesday, April 2, adding more fuel to their tiff.

“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.”

McCain saw the story and fired back via X, writing on Thursday, “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. Unlike the progressive liberal you’re representing who is sleeping with hotel staff and showing her tits to everyone.”

Coon’s character, Laurie, doesn’t actually sleep with a member of the hotel staff but does sleep with the friend of a staff member.

“I didn’t realize my quote was so inflammatory,” Coon wrote Thursday in a tweet quote of McCain’s post. “Is ‘gratified’ a new trigger word?”

The White Lotus airs Sunday nights at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.