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But first, obviously, big news from the weekend, the sudden passing of Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Obviously, I knew him a bit from lobbying down at Capitol Hill, but I didn't know him particularly well. So I'll let Lindsey Graham's best friend memorialize the late senator.
Joining us now by phone is one of his best friends, President Donald Trump. I know you lost one of your closest friends and an ally in the Senate. How are you feeling?
Well, I don't feel great. He was a great guy and he was a friend. He would call me all the time. He would just, I'd say, stop calling me, Lindsey.
I'll never forget the way that I always let him go to voicemail. It was our thing.
Obviously, he's just opening the eulogy on a lighthearted note. Sure, the poignancy follows.
Loved playing golf. Loved being outside. It wasn't that he was a great striker of the ball. He wasn't exactly a perfect. He wasn't Jack Nicklaus. He was not Tiger. He was totally against me. He said, I'll get you in South Carolina. I'm going to get you in South Carolina. That didn't work out too well. It was a nasty campaign. He was tough and nasty. I wanted to see the war with Ukraine end. Very quickly, I think he was more into, you know, keeping it going, frankly. He was a total workaholic politician. Now, some people don't call that work.
How did Lindsey Graham's sudden death and Trump's eulogy set the episode's tone?
Some people call that a lot of talking.
Well, I think the president has zoomed through the first five stages of grief. and gone straight to number six, that guy. By the way, it takes a lot of balls for Donald Trump to gently roast someone for yapping too much. He's the one who toasted his friend on Meet the Press, CNN's State of the Union, Fox and Friends. Trump was everywhere remembering Lindsey Graham, even when the host of the show appeared to not want him to.
These people suffer from a very fine disease known as Trump derangement syndrome, and it's He was saying that. Mr. President, did you notice anything? He's really come a long way on terminating the filibuster. But, Mr. President, did you notice anything different? They find millions and millions of ballots in California. They find millions and millions of ballots. It's impossible. And they didn't know in two weeks. They let it be known an hour later.
So, Mr. President, real quickly, did you notice anything different from Lindsey on the phone?
What did Trump say about Lindsey Graham and how did the hosts react?
These elections are very dishonest.
No.
I'm sorry, Mr. President, the TV station's going through a tunnel. Boop. But, of course, even his best friend Donald Trump had to concede that Senator Graham's career did have a bad moment.
Now, he had one bad moment, and that was, you know, the January 6th thing when he stood up. All right, now I've had it. That's it. I can't do it anymore. So I give him a 99 instead of a 100. You know, most people were... A lot of people were at 100, but he did have that one little moment.
You know... My favorite part of any eulogy is when they announce the person's life score.
They're doing a eulogy like it's Portnoy doing a pizza review. Yeah, Graham had a good undercarriage, good mouthfeel. Yeah, yeah. I'm doing a score, a life score. I'm doing a life score over here. Anyway, 8-2. I'm going to give him an 8-2. Solid score. If he had let the people kill him on January 6th, 9-2. Monster score. I'd give him a monster score. Now, before Graham passed, he was not feeling well. He was kind of joking about how he didn't have time to die.
Axios reported that several hours before his death, Senator Graham complained of feeling unwell and said, I can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out, and do Israeli-Saudi normalization. He passed away a short time later.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:24
2
How did Lindsey Graham's sudden death and Trump's eulogy set the episode's tone?
2:24–3:40
3
What did Trump say about Lindsey Graham and how did the hosts react?
3:40–32:26
4
Why is Mitch McConnell's health and 'proof of life' coverage being compared to Lindsey Graham's death?
32:26–45:23
5
How does the episode explain Congress's aging problem and its political consequences?
45:23–48:07
Speakers
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