Trump's Syria decision is making Lindsey Graham nauseous
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is growing increasingly furious — and nauseous — over President Trump's Syria pullback with each passing hour.
After earlier this week railing against the White House's announcement that U.S. forces will "no longer be in the immediate area" of northern Syria ahead of a planned Turkish military incursion, Graham continued sounding the alarm in an Axios interview published Wednesday, during which he rejected the president's explanations for his decision.
"If I hear the president say one more time, 'I made a campaign promise to get out of Syria,' I'm going to throw up," Graham said.
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Graham also told Axios that "nobody besides Trump believes the president's claim" that the U.S. isn't abandoning the Kurds, and he warned that with this decision, Trump is putting both "the nation" and "his presidency at risk."
Although Graham says he hasn't spoke with Trump about this, he voiced hope that the president will "adjust his policies like he did before," although so far there's no sign of him being swayed by this concern, with Trump tweeting Wednesday in all caps that "GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY!"
"The president's doing this completely against everybody else's advice," Graham told Axios. "He will get 100 percent of the credit if he knows something the rest of us don't. And he's going to get 100 percent of the blame. There'll be no middle ground."
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Brendan worked as a culture writer at The Week from 2018 to 2023, covering the entertainment industry, including film reviews, television recaps, awards season, the box office, major movie franchises and Hollywood gossip. He has written about film and television for outlets including Bloody Disgusting, Showbiz Cheat Sheet, Heavy and The Celebrity Cafe.
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