Lindsey Graham Yells At Polish Prime Minister's Tweet On Senate Floor
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) joined a unique list of luminaries on Sunday when he decided to yell at an inanimate object on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
During a Senate session discussion of a bill that would provide $95.3 billion in foreign aid to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine, the South Carolina Republican called out a post on X, formerly Twitter, that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk made last week.
The post criticized the reluctance of GOP politicians to provide aid to Ukraine to help their war against Russia, with Tusk writing: “Ronald Reagan, who helped millions of us to win back our freedom and independence, must be turning in his grave today. Shame on you.”
Graham was so bothered by Tusk’s post that he had it printed out on a big piece of stock paper and placed on a tripod so he could argue with it instead of addressing Tusk directly on X.
“To the Prime Minister of Poland, I could care less what you think. To the Prime Minister of Poland, if Ronald Reagan were alive today, we wouldn’t have this broken border,” he said.
Here’s a video of Graham’s exchange with Tusk’s post.
“To the Prime Minister of Poland: I could care less what you think”
Lindsey Graham lashed out at the Polish PM, for criticizing Senate Republicans blocking aid for Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/rMJI7zoEGG— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 11, 2024
The Senate ended up passing the legislation on Tuesday, but Graham’s performative arguing with Tusk’s post put him in a class with other famous, old and pissed-off dudes, including Clint Eastwood, who yelled at an empty chair representing Barack Obama at the 2012 Republican Convention, and “The Simpsons’” Abe Simpson, whose angry fist shaking at a cloud became a popular internet meme.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Tusk had not commented on Graham yelling at a giant paperboard printout of the post. But, not surprisingly, other people had thoughts.
Lindsey Graham arguing with a tweet on a poster is the new “Old Man Yells At Cloud”. https://t.co/DcuHylJ3cy
— Mark 𝕏 Mucci (Not E𝕏iting Yet) (@MLMucci) February 13, 2024
🚨 #BREAKINGNEWS Senator Lindsey Graham tells the Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk that he doesn't care about the problems faced with Russia when United States has its own issues.
This comes less than 24 hours after Donald Trump gave Vladimir Putin the green light to attack…— Ford News (@FordJohnathan5) February 11, 2024
He’s blaming Poland now for the border bill the Republicans couldn’t get through 😂
— Andrew Mc Cormack (@phpfyi) February 11, 2024
Lindsey Graham said “if Ronald Reagan were alive today, we wouldn’t have this broken border.” Conservatives HATE that Reagan gave amnesty to undocumented immigrants with IRCA and they think it did not do enough to secure the US-Mexico border. https://t.co/3yN5G9Ym2i
— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) February 13, 2024
Mr Principled:
"Prosecuting tRump will blow up the country..."
3/21/2023 L.G.
"You know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell.”
Lindsey Graham, 2015
"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed, and we will deserve it." 5/3/2016
Lindsey GrahamSC… pic.twitter.com/9svgVcZPCC— sobroquet (@sobroquet) February 12, 2024
Every time Lindsey Graham speaks, I think the blackmail against him is more and more heinous.
Not embarrassing as a white male Republican.
But, like “Silence Of The Lambs,” horrifying.
The truth will come out. https://t.co/do0xWDsEYU— Marmel (@Marmel) February 11, 2024
What a statesman.
To Poland, please ignore this pathetic closeted remora. He has the integrity of quicksand and speaks for almost nobody in this country, not even the poor lost souls who elected him.— C-Bo the Eggman (@CBoTheEggman) February 11, 2024
Not to be outdone by Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham pulls this. His turnaround and pro-Putin stance makes even less sense than Rubio’s. Wonder what his former BFF, John McCain would say. https://t.co/Xko7aRNNxd
— Luis Moreno (@LuisMorenolg) February 12, 2024
“To the President of Czechoslovakia, I could care less what you think.”
UK PM Neville Chamberlain, 1938.
Only morons like Lindsey Graham don’t believe history repeats itself.
He can’t be that naive.
But maybe he is that stupid. #UkrianeAidhttps://t.co/ELcBI617fcpic.twitter.com/7rFq2CiXLc— Dr. Daniel, PhD (@SirDanielJ) February 12, 2024
Since when does Lindsay Graham pass up a chance to warmonger?
— Indict The Far Reich 🇺🇸🇵🇸🇺🇦 (@IndictTheReich) February 12, 2024
Poland has been an insanely loyal American ally for 30 years. What is the possible advantage to cooling the security relationship with them? +0.3% in safe red districts? https://t.co/T811DLdUDf
— polycarp pat ☨ (@Monocarp_) February 13, 2024