{"id":501265,"date":"2026-03-03T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501265\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:24:08","slug":"lindsey-graham-mercilessly-mocked-over-freudian-slip-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501265\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Graham Mercilessly Mocked Over Freudian Slip On Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) drew mockery on social media after making what critics described as a Freudian slip about President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/fox-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a>, Graham was defending the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military operations against Iran, which began Saturday and have resulted in the death of Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the loss of six U.S. troops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo my European friends, you have lost your way,\u201d said Graham.<\/p>\n<p>The staunch Trump ally urged them to \u201cembrace the protesters\u201d opposing the Iranian regime because \u201cthey represent the best of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham then posed a rhetorical question:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you polled Europe, who is worse for the world? Trump, Bibi [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] or the ayatollah? The ayatollah would finish third.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critics quickly seized on his phrasing and for inadvertently suggesting, in their view, that the ayatollah might be seen as better for the world than Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) drew mockery on social media after making what critics described as a Freudian slip&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,12,801,5852,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-501265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}