Meghan McCain condemned Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's daughter Violet Affleck for delivering a speech on long COVID at the United Nations. Violet, 19, urged the public to support mask mandates and clean air initiatives as a way to combat the virus during her speech on Tuesday, September 23, in New York City. "Every single thing about all of this is why people hate nepo babies so much," McCain, 40, replied in a now-deleted X post on Wednesday, September 24. "She has no business speaking at the UN and what she is speaking about is patently absurd." McCain's tweet was only live for a few minutes before she deleted it, though she later reposted a similar message on Thursday, September 25. Inside Jennifer Garner's Relationship With Daughter Violet Affleck The former View panelist faced criticism from some commenters considering she described herself as a "Nepo Baby" in her X bio. (Meghan is the daughter of late Arizona Sen. John McCain and businesswoman Cindy McCain.) Amid complaints that she held Violet to a double standard, Meghan fired back at anyone "clutching their pearls" on Thursday. "Some journalist[s] are clutching their pearls mad [that] I called Violet Affleck a 'nepo baby' so I'm giving you all a response here instead of answering your emails: First, it takes one to know one. I'm clearly a nepo baby, check my twitter bio," she replied. Meghan went on, "Say whatever you want about me, my parents would have NEVER been okay with me speaking in front of the United Nations at 19 about a health issue I had no background, training or experience in." "Having famous parents is a double edged sword and if you're going to put yourself out there, you gotta take the heat (as I have always done)," she added. "Finally - anyone advocating that I mask my kids all day in 2025 I think is insane, and that is my right." Jennifer Garner and daughter Violet at the White House in December 2022. Nathan Howard/Getty Images Us Weekly has reached out to Affleck and Garner's representatives for comment. During her UN appearance, Violet wore a K95 mask while warning that the younger generation's future was "being stolen right in front of our eyes" by politicians ignoring the threat of long COVID. The youth advocate specifically took issue with "the relentless beat of back to normal, ignoring, downplaying and concealing both the prevalence of airborne transmission and the threat of long COVID." "Young people lacked both real choice in the matter and information about what was being chosen for us," she noted. Violet reiterated that COVID-19 is "airborne, floating and lingering in the air," meaning that "one infection can result in disabling damage to almost every cell in the body from the brain and heart to the nerves and blood vessels." 'Best Review'? Ben Affleck Reveals What His Kids Think of 'Hypnotic' "Every subsequent infection increases the risk of long movement and places people who already have it in greater danger," she pointed out. "As [Yale immunobiology professor] Dr. Akiko Iwasaki says, at this point, the whole population is the control group, and after only five years, long COVID has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children in five years and under." The Yale student - who has become a leading youth advocate against COVID-19 - previously appeared at a Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting in 2024 to oppose a proposed mask ban in schools. During that 2024 meeting, Violet revealed that she'd contracted a "post-viral condition" in 2019 that necessitated her wearing a mask in public spaces. "I'm OK now, but I saw firsthand that medicine does not always have answers to the consequences of even minor viruses. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown that into sharper relief," she told the school board. "One in 10 infections leads to long COVID, which is a devastating neurological, cardiovascular illness that can take away people's ability to work, move, see or even think." 2024 Was the Year We Realized These Celebrity Kids Grew Up Violet also made headlines earlier this year for writing a powerful essay about the devastating impact of the California wildfires on her community. Violet's parents were married from 2005 to 2018, and also share two younger children: Seraphina, 16, and Samuel, 13. (Ben was later married to Jennifer Lopez from 2022 to 2025, while Garner has been with boyfriend John C. Miller since 2021.)