Late-night hosts are reacting to President Donald Trump's eulogy of Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Trump gave a tribute to Graham, who was honored with a memorial in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., on July 28, with "The Daily Show" host Jordan Klepper recapping the president's attempt to, per Klepper, "say anything nice, anything nice at all."
After poking fun at legislators lying in state as essentially being "brought back to work and displayed next to the copy machine" after their death, the comedian then played a clip of Trump's now-viral remarks about "virtually everyone" liking Graham before qualifying the statement by saying, "Well, not everybody, but it sounds good."
"I can't believe I have to say this to Donald Trump, but can you just
lie to us?" Klepper reacted. "It's a memorial. You can paint a rosier picture."
He then reacted to Trump recalling his "nasty" move of sharing Graham's phone number with "millions of people" back in 2016 before broadcasting his number again and quipping, "Who wants to give it a shot?"
"Do you think the phone's going to start ringing in the casket, Lindsey's going to burst out of the coffin, like, 'I got to get this. It could be someone trying to book me on a Sunday show'?" Klepper said. "Also, why do you still know that number? I don't even know my wife's number. I just know my number and 1-877-Kars4Kids."
Seth Meyers, on his "Late Night" show on July 30, also joked about Trump's blunt comments.
"Amazing. The one time where it's perfectly acceptable to lie a little bit and he decides to tell the truth," Meyers said, before launching into a Trump impression. "'Lindsey, a lot of people didn't like him, but at least he was bad at golf.'"
Earlier in the week, the comedian joked about the president appearing to have dozed off during other eulogies.
"He looks like me after I've had three White Claws at the beach," Meyers quipped on the July 29 episode. "I get that running the country is an exhausting job, but you're not sleeping enough, bro. You need to get eight hours instead of reposting AI slop at 3 a.m."
He later suggested that Trump's speech was a bit self-serving.
Meyers, as Trump, said, "I know if he were here now, he'd say the 2020 election had massive voting irregularities, and Trump barely knew Jeffrey Epstein."
Elsewhere in Trump's speech, the president called the former senator a "tough cookie" and "a force of nature," adding, "I will miss him greatly." Kavanaugh, most of Trump's Cabinet and numerous lawmakers of both parties attended the funeral service after Graham died abruptly on July 11 from a tear in his main artery caused by hardening, his office said in a statement. He was 71.
Additional memorial services were held for Graham in Columbia, South Carolina, his home state.
Contributing: USA TODAY Politics
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