Trump Says Lindsey Graham ‘Liked War’—After Viral Clip Of Late Senator Celebrating Iran Attacks

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., “was a feline that liked war,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday, hours earlier he’s group to speak astatine Graham’s ceremonial and a time aft a clip of Graham celebrating the U.S. strikes connected Iran successful February went viral.

“He was a feline that liked war,” Trump told Fox News, adding, “I jokingly say, and there’s thing funny astir it, that he’s ne'er seen a warfare he didn’t like. He was very overmuch into that.”

In the clip, taken by British filmmaker Alex Holder for a forthcoming documentary astir Graham, the precocious legislator laughed while watching the news astir the strikes successful his office: “Look what we’ve done here. I almost cried,” he said, adding that he said to Trump earlier that time and, “he’s jacked . . . he loves blowing worldly up.”

Trump said that Graham, known for his hawkish overseas argumentation views and fierce defense of Israel and Ukraine, “over the past fewer weeks, I would opportunity that he became like, ‘it’s amended making a woody successful this lawsuit than conscionable destroying the remainder of the country,’” referring to negotiations pinch Iran.

Trump made the comments arsenic he appears much unfastened to winding down the conflict amid waning support among his guidelines and ballooning costs.