{"id":716264,"date":"2026-07-28T23:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T23:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716264\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T23:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T23:41:10","slug":"trump-joins-zelensky-and-netanyahu-at-lindsey-grahams-funeral-after-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716264\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump joins Zelensky and Netanyahu at Lindsey Graham&#8217;s funeral after talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rare, warm tribute from Donald Trumppublished at 20:26 BST<\/p>\n<p>20:26 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9b686cee-aae6-464b-8360-a273584117ca.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Gary O&#8217;Donoghue<br \/>Chief North America correspondent, reporting from Washington DC<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">President Trump rarely resists going off script, but today he stuck to the spirit of the occasion, at least pretty much.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a speech laden with superlatives and the warmest of tributes, Donald Trump spoke of the former senator from South Carolina as a &#8220;legend&#8221;, an &#8220;American original&#8221; and (in the bit that was unscripted) &#8220;a tough cookie&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The warmth was clearly genuine, and the mens&#8217; past differences were frankly acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump, in rare self-deprecating mode, told the story of how he had read out Lindsey Graham&#8217;s phone number on television during the 2016 election. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Something I shouldn&#8217;t have done,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bit he didn&#8217;t recount was how the South Carolina senator had responded &#8211; publishing a political ad where he put that phone into a blender!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This speech was apposite and full of grace. A send-off fitting for a genuine American statesman.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump at a lectern speaking into two microphones\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e80744b3-8d85-4e27-aea5-e9200f59b832.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare, warm tribute from Donald Trumppublished at 20:26 BST 20:26 BST Gary O&#8217;DonoghueChief North America correspondent, reporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-716264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}