Joe SLAMS Trump's BIZARRE eulogy at Lindsey Graham funeral

[0:00] So, Jonathan, I don't think the president would speak at my funeral, but if for any reason that were to happen, if you could just cancel and have him speak at the pub afterwards, that would be grand. [0:13] Maybe toasting a beer. I mean, Lindsay never saw a war he didn't like. [0:20] I mean, it's I think what has gotten the president's goat, as they say, is the fact that Lindsay was one of the chief proponents. [0:29] He was a hawk. He was one of the chief proponents, though, of supporting Ukraine, constantly telling the president to stop cozying up to Vladimir Putin, constantly telling the president to to go after them. [0:43] And yes, he was, as traditional Republicans were, hawks against Russia, hawks against communist China. [0:50] I mean, well, Donald Trump's talking about the great taste of chocolate cake and what a great man President Xi is and what a great leader he is, what a great dictator he is, basically, is what he's saying. [1:03] Lindsey Graham, like Marco Rubio, you know, we're we're hawkish. [1:10] America had friends. America had enemies. [1:13] That's how Lindsay looked at the world. That's how Marco looks at the world. [1:16] That's how Reagan looked at the world. That's how Republicans look, used to look at the world. [1:21] They didn't use to cozy up to communist China. They didn't use to cozy up to Vladimir Putin. [1:26] They didn't use to say wonderful things about Iran one week and then terrible things about Iran the next week. [1:32] So so he was a consistently hawkish Republican from from pre-Trump days. [1:41] That's basically what it was. And to say he didn't there wasn't a war he never liked was, of course, I think Donald Trump betraying his own feelings. [1:53] Yeah. I mean, Joe, at your eventual funeral may not happen for many, many, many decades. [1:58] We will try to curtail talk of airstrikes. That is my my pledge to you. [2:02] But yeah, this is this is we know Lindsey Graham, look, has advocated long. [2:07] He though a shapeshifter in much of his political life. [2:11] He did absolutely have some consistent feelings and he believed in a muscular American military presence around the world, muscular foreign policy. [2:19] And he yes, he long advocated believing that the hardliners in Tehran were a threat not just to Israel and the Gulf, but the United States. [2:28] And certainly he had been advocating for an attack like this. [2:30] We've seen some behind the scenes footage. [2:32] There's a new documentary that's coming. The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times. [2:35] He's gotten glimpses of some of it. [2:37] And yes, and in it, Graham is very clear. [2:39] It's it's centered around the first days of the war. [2:41] He's very clear that he's glad this is this is happening. [2:44] But you're right that this is not so out of step for where the Republican Party used to be on the Cold War, on threats from abroad. [2:53] And it's the Trump era that has become so mixed about this. [2:57] And in Trump's first term, you know, he largely not entirely, but largely stayed away from these sort of conflicts that he is now very much embraced this time around. [3:06] And we are seeing here in Iran a war that he is desperate to put behind him and simply can't. [3:12] And with that, that's a few days of calm ending again yesterday. [3:18] Well, let's listen to more of the president's eulogy. [3:21] I'm sure there's a part or two that's more moving and complimentary and poignant about my my friend, Lindsay. [3:28] No matter how heated things got in Washington, virtually everyone, Republican or Democrat, liked Lindsay. [3:37] Well, not everybody, but it sounds good. [3:40] Not everybody. [3:40] He was a tough cookie. [3:42] OK, I have to be I have to veer from this first. [3:45] He was a tough cookie. [3:48] As you remember, Lindsay and I did not exactly get off to the best of starts running against each other. [3:55] Back in 2016, Lindsay said something rather nasty on his flight to becoming the next president of the United States. [4:05] So naturally, I did something that I shouldn't have done. [4:10] I shared his personal cell phone number with the millions of people that happened to be watching that particular day as I made a speech, a very important speech. [4:19] That was the beginning of a friendship in a way. [4:22] But it was Lindsay who had the last laugh because while I blew up his phone all for one day, we became great friends. [4:31] And Lindsay did not stop calling me for the next 10 years. [4:34] It was not he's I, I, I'm thinking of Ted Kennedy's eulogy of his brother Bobby at a funeral. [4:45] And he asked, why not? [4:48] Ed Lose, thoughts on the president remembering his quote, good friend, Lindsay Graham. [4:56] Yeah, I'm maybe slightly disagree with you, Joe, which is which is a rare, rare event. [5:06] The policy of honesty, even in a eulogy at a funeral, I don't think is necessarily that disrespectful. [5:14] I say, well, not everybody like Lindsay Graham. [5:16] That's probably true, although he was actually quite likable. [5:21] He engaged with people who disagreed with him and was never personal. [5:26] It's striking how many Democrats who were strong political and ideological opponents still liked him. [5:34] And I think most famously, when Hillary Clinton was in the Senate, she actually got along with a guy who, you know, tried to bring down her husband over the Monica Lewinsky issue [5:48] and had been a real scourge of the Clintons when they're in the White House. [5:52] So he was very engaging. But, you know, he President Trump would say the same thing about he never met a war. [6:00] He didn't like about John Bolton. And I'm not sure he was wrong about John Bolton either. [6:05] I remember Lindsay Graham early on into the current phase of Israel-Gaza military activity, saying that if the Palestinians didn't cooperate, [6:17] then we should turn Gaza into a parking lot. [6:21] You know, he did have not just a sort of quite hawkish stance on the Middle East and other regions of the world, [6:28] but he had a pretty vivid way of expressing his hawkishness. [6:33] So I don't necessarily disagree with President Trump's characterization, [6:38] even though the setting, Washington Cathedral, with Senator Graham's body there in front of him, [6:46] was probably not optimal occasion to make that observation. [6:50] Thank you.