Meghan McCain criticizes allowing GOP lawmaker’s child in House chamber

Meghan McCain, the daughter of former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), took a swipe at Rep. John Rose (R-Tenn.) after his son went viral for making some funny faces on camera while his father delivered floor remarks.

“That kid has no business on the house floor — it’s not a daycare,” McCain wrote in a post Tuesday on the social platform X.

Rose’s 6-year-old son, Guy, stole his father’s thunder Monday when he hammed it up for the C-SPAN cameras during floor remarks. Sitting behind his father, who was discussing a “politically driven prosecution,” the young Rose stuck his tongue out, rolled his eyes, shook his head and gave a series of silly hand motions, all captured on the House floor cameras.

“This is what I get for telling my son Guy to smile at the camera for his little brother,” Rose wrote later on X.

Guy will be shadowing his dad in Congress to give his wife, Chelsea, a bit of child care relief while she works full-time in Tennessee while taking care of the couple’s 3-year-old son, Sam.

While McCain wasn’t too happy about Guy’s cameo, others on Capitol Hill welcomed the rare moment.

“He knows something,” Doug Andres, spokesperson for Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), posted on X with a photo of the young Rose holding his hands in a triangle motion in front of his face.

In a different post, Andres called Rose’s son a “generational talent.”

“So sorry I was slow responding to your email, I was tied up watching this over and over again,” Aaron Fritschner, the communications director for Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), said on X.

The young Rose made an appearance with his father on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” on Tuesday morning to discuss his viral cameo on the House floor.

The Hill reached out to Rose’s office for further comment