Lindsey Graham has sure been sucking up a lot to Donald Trump lately. It’s quite the turnaround from a few years ago, when he regularly referred to him as a “disgrace”, a “jackass”, and “one of the dumbest human beings” on the planet.
First, there was that shrill-f*ck-the-Democrats tirade Graham made during Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearing last month, which resulted in memes like these:
Then there was the time he went after outspoken Trump critic Chelsea Handler for saying mean things about him.
“I don’t think much about what she says at all,” Graham said of the 43-year-old comedian. “Belittling people is not as funny as it used to be.”
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Graham’s latest act of ass kissing comes by way of a series of tweets praising Trump for his stance on birthright citizenship.
Trump said in an interview with Axois released today that he plans on signing an executive order to end the practice of birthright citizenship, which automatically grants citizenship to any baby born within the jurisdiction of the United States.
The policy is a part of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution written in 1868 that states:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
“It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don’t,” Trump said. “You can definitely do it with an act of Congress. But now they’re saying I can do it just with an executive order.”
He added, incorrectly: “We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States … with all of those benefits.”
Graham, who is rumored to have his eye on Jeff Sessions’ Attorney General seat once Sessions is fired after the mid-terms, wasted no time applauding Trump, saying he 100% supports the elimination of birthright citizenship. In fact, he was planning on introducing similar legislation himself!
This morning, Graham fired off this series of tweets:
Finally, a president willing to take on this absurd policy of birthright citizenship. https://t.co/kCa0ko7P76
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 30, 2018
I’ve always supported comprehensive immigration reform – and at the same time – the elimination of birthright citizenship.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 30, 2018
The United States is one of two developed countries in the world who grant citizenship based on location of birth.
This policy is a magnet for illegal immigration, out of the mainstream of the developed world, and needs to come to an end.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 30, 2018
In addition, I plan to introduce legislation along the same lines as the proposed executive order from President @realDonaldTrump.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 30, 2018
Meanwhile, the vast majority of legal experts, as well as many top Republicans, say ending birthright citizenship is ridiculous and unconstitutional. In fact, many aren’t even entertaining the idea.
“Well, you obviously cannot do that,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said during a radio interview today. “You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order.”
Honestly, the only person who seems on board with it is Lindsey Graham. Which leads us to wonder if he’s intentionally trying to commit career suicide. Surely, he knows by now that literally every single person who gets in bed with Donald Trump–from Paul Manafort to Roseanne Barr, Michael Flynn to Kanye West–ends up going down in flames.
Related: Literally every single lawmaker declined Trump’s invite to join him at Pittsburgh funerals
PinkoOfTheGange
I want to make a joke about replacing an elf with a …. at Justice, but that wouldn’t be nice.
TomG
Oh, go ahead, I can’t wait to read the punchline.
QueerTruth
By calling LG a bitch or dressing him up in drag, or showing them as lovers/sex slaves or other such language/imagery – we are actually insults gay men and women.
We need to be more sophisticated with our word and stop insulting our own.
Simply call him for what he is: weak, bigoted, spineless, hateful, misogynistic, homophobic, hateful, stupid, a lackey.
PinkoOfTheGange
Might I add sycophant?
Juanjo
Sorry but no. People are pointing out that he is a disgusting little closet case. It isn’t as though it is any secret.
Xzamilloh
He’s vying for Jeff Sessions’ job as Attorney General, so this is nothing more than a shameless audition from a man that once said Trump becoming president would bring about the destruction of our democracy.
Would LOVE for Queerty to actually address the issues with Republicans moving more to the right and Democrats unfortunately being cowards and thinking the answer is to move more to the center.
Unfortunately, as the spectrum shifts, the “center” becomes the right and the right becomes the far right.
Plain and simple, if Democrats put anyone up there that isn’t Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren (preferably Sanders), Trump will be re-elected.
Bob LaBlah
If you look at the perks a U.S. senator receives (along with the fact that the majority of SC is still moaning over the loss of the Civil War, enough blacks live there to keep the black senator in office regardless of his GOP affiliation and over half of the whites support Trump and turn a bling eye to the bigotry of Bob Jones University) its easy to see why he is saying those “kind” things about ol’ Donald. Even ol’ Ted Cruz just planted a nice wet one on Trumps rear end (and his nbrs are now even closer than before he did it). I have no problem with Graham but I’m hoping Cruz gets the boot.
MaxH
What is it with the left wingers in the US? Wanting stricter immigration enforcment does not in anyway whatsoever make you a racist.
Expecting people to speak the de facto language of the country does not make you racist.
Wearing clothes from other cultures does not make you racist.
Wearing hair in a style wrongly assumed to be “black” does not make you racist.
I can’t stand Donald Trump or his supporters but when I hear such utter tripe from left wing individuals I can’t help be understand what might have motivated their love of Trump.
In the UK I’m deemed an extreme left-wing socialist by those on the right, and even I favour tough immigration controls and no sympathy for illegals….oh sorry, “undocumented migrants”.
Juanjo
Miss Thing, no one really cares about your display of ignorance. If you were actually an American then you would hopefully understand that Trump cannot simply issue an Executive Order nor can Congress just pass a law proposed by Lindsey Belle, to change the Constitutional right of citizenship at birth. Trump is proposing a change in our Constitution he cannot accomplish without getting the approval of Congress [a 2/3ds majority of both houses] and the approval of 75% of the states voting through their legislatures.
Unlike the UK where there is no real protection for civil liberties other than custom, in the US civil rights are protected in our written Constitution, including the right of citizenship at birth. Trump and the far right want to remove that right of citizenship. They tried to do this to the former slaves after the Civil War, they tried again concerning Asians, the did it also against Native Americans, they have tried to do to anyone they considered politically suspect, and they have done it repeatedly to get rid of Latinos.
We still hold to the old Anglo-Saxon law of Jus Soli, anyone born in the United States, not in the service of a foreign power, is by birth, a US citizen. The irony is that Trump’s grandfather was deported as an undesirable alien and then snuck back in. So, technically Trump under the theory put forth by the Right is not a citizen since his father and grandfather were not citizens.
PinkoOfTheGange
Not following the law let alone the spirit of the law doesn’t make one a fine fellow.
If the nation has no “official language” insisting other wise comes across a little racistie.
Cultural appropriation shouldn’t be a bad thing unto itself, but makes it a lot easier to cross the line to being a racist jerk.
Kangol
Whatever you are in the UK, you have no clue about the US. Also, let’s not forget that Great Britain raped and pillaged the entire globe, with colonies on every continent (including Australia and New Zealand), while also imposing its horrid, divisive, often racist and homophobic laws, including the monstrosity of chattel slavery in the US and the Caribbean, wherever it planted its flag, so the last thing a British person should be doing is giving any one, particularly the United States, any advice about behavior, particularly US “left wingers.” You may claim to hate Donald Trump, and may be viewed as an “extreme left-wing socialist,” but you come off like a follower of Jacob Rees-Mogg. Seriously. Let us know when you’ve figured out Brexit, and clean up your own house first.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Its obvious that Miss Lindsay Grahm is seeking to be the second Lesbian Attorney General..
funpitt412
Why do we try to make someone less of a person by degrading someone to be gay or dressing them in drag? How does this help the LBGTQ ? I am more concerned that Hillary in an recent interview said “The all look alike” referring to black men? She is real raciest.
Kangol
Come on, now, are you for real? Hillary Clinton was correcting Kara Swisher, who mixed up Cory Booker and Eric Holder. They look nothing alike, beyond having brown skin. She was being sarcastic, as the video clip of her response will show. On a serious note, did you watch the clip or just hear about it on Fox News or some other site that was trying to claim Hillary Clinton was being “racist”? I ask out of curiosity, not malice.
Kangol
Here’s the deal: if Donald Orange Oaf Trump’s repeal of birthright citizenship were valid, he could not be president because he is the son of an immigrant, and all four of his grandparents were immigrants. Also, two of his three wives were immigrants, so all of his children but Tiffany might not be citizens either. In fact, at least SIX Republicans in Congress would no longer be citizens, including Justin Amash, Mia Love, anti-immigrant zealot Andy Harris, and that walking clown Ted Cruz, whose father not only was an immigrant, but who was born in Canada! Is Trump so moronic he doesn’t realize he’d nix himself with this law? Thankfully, under no circumstances can birthright citizenship be changed by his clown-sized signature alone.
Xzamilloh
Unrelated, but Kanye hopped off the MAGA train. He’s still garbage, but it was great watching garbage bag grifter Candace Owens’ stock plummet with one tweet
Kieran
Why does the “favorite picture of Lindsey Graham at the Kavanaugh hearing” look like a blonde Kamala Harris? #FAIL
Bob LaBlah
The pic just above that one makes him look like Chelsea Manning.
Virpilosus
Lindsay Graham…evil, duplicitous, mendacious, venal…lowlife bottomfeeder.
Lacuevaman
im not sure who said it ….most recently …and it has been attributed to several folks…but it goes something like this: “when someone is telling you who they are, stop and listen and believe them…”
Mr. Graham is a terrible and selfish person. Be gone.