{"id":5248,"date":"2026-07-13T18:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:48:05","slug":"trump-rants-despite-fox-host-trying-to-talk-lindsey-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=5248","title":{"rendered":"Trump Rants Despite Fox Host Trying to Talk Lindsey Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<p>President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> went on a tirade on Fox News about terminating the filibuster, the importance of passing the SAVE America Act, and voter fraud in California despite host <strong>Lawrence Jones\u2019s<\/strong> repeated attempts to steer the conversation back to the late <strong>Lindsey Graham<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, calling into <em>Fox &amp; Friends<\/em> on Monday morning, began by remembering Graham as a \u201cgreat guy\u201d and \u201cfriend\u201d who \u201cloved golf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Trump added that Graham was a strong advocate for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/7296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAVE America Act<\/a> and terminating the filibuster, his demeanor shifted from somber to irritated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think he would have felt the same way about terminating the filibuster, which was so important,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s so important that Republicans have to do it. It\u2019s so insane. Otherwise, we\u2019re gonna have a shutdown in September, and we have a debt ceiling problem coming in two years, and if you terminate the filibuster, everything goes away. And we do anything we want, we pass everything we want and the Democrats are gonna do it, and he started to see that. Cause everyone was against \u2014 not everybody against, 20% were against. He was one, and now he was starting to say, \u2018Terminate the filibuster,\u2019 otherwise we\u2019ll have crazy, ridiculous, Trump-deranged. These people suffer from a very fine disease known as Trump derangement syndrome. And he was seeing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Jones cut in to return the conversation back to Graham, Trump just kept going, turning to voter fraud in California and <strong>Spencer Pratt\u2019s<\/strong> recent mayoral loss in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook what happened to the kid in California. They sent a million ballots. Nobody knew where they came from. So you don\u2019t do mail-in ballots or if you go on vacation, you get pass. We make it nice and easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Jones interrupted again, Trump continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpencer Pratt came up to my office and said he thought he won, I said why didn\u2019t you complain? He didn\u2019t know who to complain to. But what they did that guy was unbelievable. He\u2019s a nice guy, he worked so hard. And they found millions of ballots, you know? And they took the election away from him. They almost did it to Steve Hilton. I complained, I got the U.S. Attorneys involved and FBI and soon as \u2014 he was, they were putting out reports, \u2018Steve Hilton is starting to fade.\u2019 He\u2019s running, as you know, for governor of California. And I said, \u2018Here we go, they are going to find ballots,\u2019 and they said he was starting to fade. He wasn\u2019t fading. It was the opposite. And I put the U.S. Attorney involved, and they said, \u2018We will know in two weeks.\u2019 Can you imagine, this is a week after the election, they say he\u2019s starting to fade. And then I got the U.S. Attorney involved, and they didn\u2019t know in two weeks\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A third time, Jones tried to ask Trump about his final phone call hours before Graham\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. President, real quickly, did you notice anything different from Lindsey on the phone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Trump ignored him once again, Jones, seemingly exasperated, said, \u201cNo, no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few moments later, co-host <strong>Griff Jenkins<\/strong> was finally able to successfuly interject as he asked about the moment Graham <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/6e6bc160da57465ab643304428a010da\">spoke out<\/a> for <strong>Brett Kavanaugh<\/strong> during the latter\u2019s Senate confirmation hearing in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Graham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/lindsey-graham-dead-at-71\/\">died<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday night after what his office called a \u201cbrief and sudden illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The longtime senator\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/just-in-lindsey-grahams-preliminary-cause-of-death-revealed\/\">cause of death<\/a> was revealed to be \u201caortic dissection due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease,\u201d authorities revealed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Watch above via Fox News.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New: The Mediaite One-Sheet &#8220;Newsletter of Newsletters&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump went on a tirade on Fox News about terminating the filibuster, the importance of passing the SAVE America Act, and voter fraud in California despite host Lawrence Jones\u2019s repeated attempts to steer the conversation back to the late Lindsey Graham. 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