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BumRushDaShow

(168,998 posts)
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:07 PM 3 hrs ago

'Never heard him so angry': MAGA senator posts - then deletes - story of furious Trump

Source: Raw Story

March 17, 2026 11:12AM ET


Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) published – and immediately deleted – a post on social media Tuesday sharing details of a conversation he had moments earlier with President Donald Trump who, according to Graham, was absolutely furious over his pleas for other countries to aid his Iran war effort being largely ignored.

“Just spoke to President Trump about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America,” Graham wrote in a social media post on X Tuesday, a post that was deleted within minutes. “I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake.”

Not long after Trump first authorized strikes on Iran, the Middle East nation vowed to attack any sea vessels aligned with the United States and its allies attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial shipping route through which 20% of the world’s oil trade flows. Oil prices have skyrocketed as a result, reportedly sparking panic within the Trump administration and prompting Trump to call on other nations to support its war effort.

Those calls have mostly landed on deaf ears, however, and were met with “little in the way of immediate commitments,” The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Trump’s apparent fury was shared by Graham, who wrote in his now-deleted social media post that the perceived snub from European nations made him “second guess the value” of U.S. alliances.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676264296/



(Alexander Willis is Raw Story's Senior Editor)




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Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC just posted and deleted this:

Says he just got off the phone with Trump and that he’d “never heard him so angry in my life.”

Apparently Trump is fuming over other countries’ refusal to help get him out of the Strait of Hormuz fiasco he caused.
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'Never heard him so angry': MAGA senator posts - then deletes - story of furious Trump (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 3 hrs ago OP
;-{)....... Goonch 3 hrs ago #1
What in hell did TSF expect? greatauntoftriplets 3 hrs ago #2
bullies who treat people like dirt often do not get the responses they expected lol msongs 3 hrs ago #3
Colin Powell: LakeVermilion 3 hrs ago #4
Poor Lindsey. Trying to pleasure the big boy only being told it ain't working. erronis 3 hrs ago #5
Nobody wants to get drawn into this quagmire Pisces 3 hrs ago #6
Shut the fuck up, Lindsey, you oily little turd... GiqueCee 2 hrs ago #7
Astonishing Lack of Self Awareness by 2 grown men. delisen 2 hrs ago #8
He's begging for help in an illegal war he started without consulting them. thought crime 1 hr ago #16
The worst part of this is that Chump has no friends, and he doesn't realize that HE's the REASON why FakeNoose 1 hr ago #18
I think IT is finding out that the only people afraid of him are the Congressional Republicans. LoisB 2 hrs ago #9
I doubt the majority of them are afraid. I think they are happily enabling and even directing him. chowder66 2 hrs ago #12
Could be. LoisB 57 min ago #23
Fucking idiots Solly Mack 2 hrs ago #10
Trump says fuck you. Then he says unfuck you. Then he says help me and fuck you. twodogsbarking 2 hrs ago #11
Then gets angry when they tell him to go fuck himself. thought crime 2 hrs ago #13
They can both go fuck themselves durablend 2 hrs ago #14
Europe needs to arm itself Johnny2X2X 1 hr ago #15
Like I said a couple of days ago - cab67 1 hr ago #17
"May his presidential portrait never be displayed at the White House." BumRushDaShow 1 hr ago #19
Cool, maybe he'll stroke out from rage. Queso Delicioso 1 hr ago #20
One can hope! 2naSalit 29 min ago #24
When someone puts their hand in your pocket, without permission, it's normally called theft. dickthegrouch 1 hr ago #21
aaaaaaand the blame-shifting has already started Skittles 58 min ago #22
Graham and Trump with their kabuki theater bullshit can fuckoff nt BootinUp 5 min ago #25
Is Lindsey dead yet? What about Mitch? BigmanPigman 4 min ago #26
Oops! Posted a photo of the Emperor with no clothes on? Gosh, Lindsey, try to keep up! Martin68 1 min ago #27

greatauntoftriplets

(178,904 posts)
2. What in hell did TSF expect?
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:13 PM
3 hrs ago

The leaders of the countries he asked must have had enough of him after all the bashing and dick waving to prove what a big man he is.

LakeVermilion

(1,561 posts)
4. Colin Powell:
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:16 PM
3 hrs ago

"You break it, you own it."

TSF: I've never had to own anything I've broken before, why now."

Religion: We are all here for a purpose. You are an example to other asshats.

erronis

(23,691 posts)
5. Poor Lindsey. Trying to pleasure the big boy only being told it ain't working.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:16 PM
3 hrs ago

Whats a fella (tio - means old man) to do?

GiqueCee

(4,053 posts)
7. Shut the fuck up, Lindsey, you oily little turd...
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:41 PM
2 hrs ago

... after the way he's treated our former allies, who can blame them for telling that boorish pig to stuff it where the Sun don't shine? He is a disgrace to this country, and so are you. Not to mention that ANY naval action in such a confined space as the Strait of Hormuz is flat-out suicidal. Shithead knows that now, which is why he's trying to get other countries' service men and -women killed, and then screeching like a stuck hog when they turn their backs on him, as they have every right to do.
They're all going to feel the economic pain that Trump has foisted on the rest of the world, but there's no reason why they should shoulder the burden and the pain of wasting the lives of their citizens by subjecting them to inevitable failure. Shithead doesn't bother to say why he put nearly our entire fleet of minesweepers in dry dock when he claims that he knew the Iranians would mine the Strait. A third-grader knew it, but I seriously doubt that shithead ever thought that far ahead. That evil fuck couldn't tell the truth about the time of day.
So this is what the inside of a wood chipper looks like, huh?

delisen

(7,345 posts)
8. Astonishing Lack of Self Awareness by 2 grown men.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:46 PM
2 hrs ago

They both were in military schools where surely they were taught they had to clean up after themselves, cooperate, and not foul the nest.

Guess they never absorbed the reason why these are good things are ways to behave.

Europeans have spent 80 years leaning the benefits of working together, building joint decision-making capabilities, and acting together as equals to peacefully address a common threat.

Some people learn, some people do not.

thought crime

(1,512 posts)
16. He's begging for help in an illegal war he started without consulting them.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 07:35 PM
1 hr ago

Sorry, Donald, but for some reason NATO is now intensely focused on Polar Security and has no time for you. It still hasn't occurred to Trump that his next step should be to work with the United Nations Security Council.

FakeNoose

(41,339 posts)
18. The worst part of this is that Chump has no friends, and he doesn't realize that HE's the REASON why
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 07:45 PM
1 hr ago

He has slapped every one of our former Allies in their faces, insulted them, mean-tweeted them, charged them tariffs, and whatever else he's done to destroy relationships. Chump is completely oblivious to all of this.

But THEY AREN'T! They can't wait for Chump to be removed from office.

LoisB

(12,898 posts)
9. I think IT is finding out that the only people afraid of him are the Congressional Republicans.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:52 PM
2 hrs ago

chowder66

(12,192 posts)
12. I doubt the majority of them are afraid. I think they are happily enabling and even directing him.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 07:20 PM
2 hrs ago

They probably just tell the democrats they are afraid to avoid the blame and shame.

cab67

(3,716 posts)
17. Like I said a couple of days ago -
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 07:39 PM
1 hr ago

it's the stupidity, stupid.

Trump spent much of his first term and a lot of his second treating America's allies like dirt. He's insulted, disrespected, and offended them. He's treated them as a burden more than an asset.

He then starts a war (with Israel, our only ally to think this was a good idea) with a country whose military infrastructure, though minuscule compared with ours, is substantial compared with those of the countries we've attacked since the Gulf War. Anyone with common sense and a map could see that Iran was going to attack US bases throughout the region. It was equally obvious that Iran would close off the Strait of Hormuz. It was so obvious, it might as well have been walking around on a beach wearing a neon sandwich board announcing its reality.

Apparently, people told Trump these things. He didn't think they'd happen, and the brainless wonders in his circle went along with it.

So what does he do now? Beg those allies he's spent so much time bad-mouthing for help.

Never mind the fact that any naval vessel in that area would be highly vulnerable to attack. Never mind that the Strait of Hormuz is narrow enough to preclude naval escort of freighters and tankers. Never mind that Old Colostomy didn't try to build a coalition before the attacks started. I have issues with both Presidents Bush, but they at least made the pretense of trying diplomacy before starting something stupid, and the elder Bush was even successful at it. Trump? We don't need allies. Except that we do. To help win the war that's already been won.

In the future, the definition of "incompetence" in the dictionary will be accompanied by a picture of Trump.

May his presidential portrait never be displayed at the White House. That would besmirch the building and all it's represented.

BumRushDaShow

(168,998 posts)
19. "May his presidential portrait never be displayed at the White House."
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 08:01 PM
1 hr ago

There might not even be a "White House" left standing in the next couple years as he seems to be in the process of pretty much tearing it down and replacing it with an "extension" to his ballroom. He's already mused about ripping out 200 year old columns on the facade to replace with junk. We saw what happened with the East Wing.

There is still an "original" President's House - dubbed the "Germantown White House" (where George Washington stayed during the yellow fever outbreak) here in Philly in the Germantown neighborhood -

dickthegrouch

(4,490 posts)
21. When someone puts their hand in your pocket, without permission, it's normally called theft.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 08:25 PM
1 hr ago

Rump unilaterally deciding to invade other countries, then asking for backup, is no different.

Skittles

(171,383 posts)
22. aaaaaaand the blame-shifting has already started
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 08:30 PM
58 min ago

it's not TRUMP'S fault for getting us into this mess, it's THEIR fault for not volunteering to help bail him out!

BigmanPigman

(55,052 posts)
26. Is Lindsey dead yet? What about Mitch?
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 09:24 PM
4 min ago

These flying monkeys should have kicked it and gone home to Satan years ago.

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