The day everyone knew would come has arrived. Donald Trump just dumped his most loyal lapdog, Lindsey Graham. Not only that, but he did it on one of the largest far-right conservative TV networks in America.
Speaking to Newsmax yesterday, Trump called Graham a “RINO,” short for “Republican in Name Only”, after the antigay senator from South Carolina said the ex-president’s recent remarks about pardoning January 6 rioters if he were to take back the White House were “inappropriate.”
“Well, Lindsey Graham’s wrong,” Trump said. “I mean, Lindsey’s a nice guy—but he’s a RINO. Lindsey’s wrong. … Lindsey Graham doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about if he says that.”
Trump: Well, Lindsey Graham is wrong. Lindsey is a nice guy but he’s a RINO pic.twitter.com/TsJNV1mbhY
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 2, 2022
Of course, none of this is the least bit surprising. Trump throws everyone under the bus sooner or later. His niece, Mary, who has never been wrong in her predictions about her crazy Fox News-watching uncle, recently said she believes he’ll throw his own children under there if it means saving himself from the January 6 committee.
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“Donald will throw anybody under the bus if he believes it’s in his best interest to do so,” she told MSNBC’s Alex Witt last month. “If he believes it’ll help play out the clock, if he believes that it will help him avoid accountability, that’s all he cares about.”
Related: Mary Trump makes another ominous prediction about Ivanka: “She’s in a very bad situation”
As for Graham, we imagine he’s curled up in the fetal position with his thumb in his mouth under the desk in his congressional office right about now.
After keeping his lips permanently glued to Trump’s ass for the last six years, assisting him in his unsuccessful efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, and even donating $500,000 to his defense legal fund, Trump returned the favor by basically calling him an idiot on cable television.
Now, the tweets…
Trump just called Lindsey Graham a RINO.
The GOP is imploding ?
— Jack Cocchiarella (@JDCocchiarella) February 2, 2022
If you were tricked into thinking Donald Trump is in it for anyone other than Donald Trump, you might be Lindsey Graham.
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) February 2, 2022
Donald Trump not only threw Lindsey Graham under the bus, but he ran him over with the bus.
— Avenger Resister (@AvengerResister) February 2, 2022
Imagine how upsetting it must be for Lindsey Graham to hear this while barnacled to the inside of Trump’s rectum. https://t.co/x4NuEyxt7G
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) February 2, 2022
If Lindsey Graham crawls out of trump’s colon and sees his shadow, expect six more months of treason! #GroundhogDay
— ? Scary Larry ? ?????? (@StompTheGOP) February 2, 2022
Trump called Lindsey Graham a RINO after he expressed it was inappropriate for Trump to say he would pardon Jan. 6 prisoners.
I give it 2 hours before Lindsey walks back on that statement.
— Kate ??? (@ImSpeaking13) February 2, 2022
Lindsey Graham personally donated $500,000 to Donald Trump & his legal fund. To pay him back, Trump just called him a "RINO" & said "he doesn't know what the hell he is talking about."
Pretty hilarious watching Lindsey get ran over & reversed by that big ass orange bus.
— Kyla In The Burgh ????? (@KylaInTheBurgh) February 2, 2022
Yesterday Donald Trump said “Lindsey Graham doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.”
Now Lindsey Graham is under investigation in Georgia and will soon be exiled from Trump world.
He deserves it.
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) February 2, 2022
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
ZzBomb
Look I hate Trump as much as next patriotic American but real question: Do you get paid for every plug you make about Mary Trump’s predictions? I see literally this sentence in EVERY article pertaining to the dumpster fire family:
“His niece, Mary, who has never been wrong in her predictions about her crazy Fox News-watching uncle…”
white-queer-african
@ZzBomb, starting off by saying “Look I hate Trump” is a dead giveaway that u just another GOP troll. Just go away Mary!
Cam
LOL!!!!!!!!
“I’m not a troll BUT………….”
cuteguy
@ZBomb
Your intro that you “hate trump” is equivalent to a racist starting a sentence with “some of my best friends are black”
TomG
Didn’t Graham KNOW that once Trump is finished with your usefulness to him it’s goodbye and “Gee, I hardly knew the guy” ?
rangerwilcox
when you suck at rimming, that’s what happens.
Godof 1967
Hahahah!
Gold!
inbama
That would be a huge job.
cuteguy
The sad part is that the GQP have all these losers running their party and yet they are expected to win the mid term elections. That’s a testament to how weak the Democratic Party currently is
jax florida
I wish I could say you are incorrect.
mastik8
Agreed. The mid-terms will be a blood bath for the Dems and unless something dramatic happens the GOP will take the White House again. With friends like Manchin and Sinema who needs enemies. When they lose the DNC will blame us, the rank and file rather than their impotent gestures at governance.
James Hart
Good observation.
The Republicans will retake the Senate and the House in November because the Democrats screwed up and moved over to the far left.
I was a registered Democrat and voted for Biden because I thought Trump was a complete buffoon. Recently, I re-registered as an independent (unaffiliated) because of Biden screwing up the Afghanistan pull-out, record high inflation, crime in the streets, the illegal immigrant onslaught, the war-mongering about the Ukraine border, and the never-ending, ongoing Covid crisis.
Fahd
Lindsey Graham is the “good cop”. This isn’t the first time that he’s come in with “Tr*mp went too far this time.”
Tr*mp is the “bad cop”. He introduces and doubles down on the most extreme positions, designed to inflame the deep-seated prejudices of the poorly educated (see demagoguery).
Both “cops” have the same objective: retain/regain power at whatever cost without regard to American democratic institutions.
Yahoo homepage has better analysis than Queerty when it comes to these issues.
DennisBTR
Oh please – this has happened many times before. Some politician or politically connected person says something Trump does not like and Trump disparages him/her. In a few weeks or months everything will be fine again.
Case in point – Steve Bannon & Matt Gaetz. At one point Trump was furious with them. Now they are his best friends again.
In fact, this is not the first time Trump and Miss Lindsey Graham have exchanged harsh words. During the presidential primary in 2015, Trump was a “complete idiot,” and Graham would “beat his brains out” in the South Carolina primary. “You know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell,” Graham told CNN, adding that Trump was a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.” Graham said in 2016 that “we should have basically kicked him out of the party.” And yet, they became fast friends again.
PS – I agree with the comment about Mary Trump. Does Queerty have a contract with her?
Fname Optional Lname
Miss Lindsey > “Trump definitely went too far this time until he tells me he didn’t!”
gaym50ish
Lindsey Graham has been so far up Trump’s ass he probably ran into Sean Hannity.
gregg2010
We, fellow Dems, are in deep doodoo. After the midterms, it will be all down hill for the party. And who are the Dems going to run for 2024? Whoever it is, they will have no chance against the Republican nominee.
WSnyder
Not surprised, at ALL. Lindsay will roll over a play dead for a few weeks, they start cissing Trump’s *ss again. Because that is all Lindsay knows what to do. If Trump explodes like the Hindenburg and goes down in flames, Lindsay will say Trump was bad for the GOP and the country ‘all along, JUST LIKE I’VE BEEN SAYING, all along”. We live in an age of hypocrisy and denial, regardless of what recorded or documented evidence says to the contrary. And stupid people believe it, we see it every godd*mn day. It really doesn’t matter what is said or done, even in the age of recordings and ‘proof’, there are enough stupid people to believe in lies and deceit.
Just look at antivaxxers and anti-mask morons.
Kanawah
Could not happen to a more deserving person.
BaltoSteve
Damn, does that family own stock in Greyhound? Where the hell are they getting all these buses once folk become no longer useful?
ProfessorDave
Poor, poor Lady Lindsey. Maybe now he’ll stop.
fredk3
miss lindsey must really really enjoy being a sub.