Trump jokes Lindsey Graham got last laugh after he shared senator’s phone number with public

“As you remember, Lindsey and I did not exactly get off to the best of starts, running against each other,” Trump said. “Back in 2016, Lindsey said something rather nasty on his flight to becoming the next president of the United States. So naturally, I did something that I shouldn’t have done.”

“I shared his personal cellphone number with the millions of people that happened to be watching that particular day,” Trump continued. “As I made a speech, a very important speech, and I remember the number 202-228-0292. If anybody wants to give it a shot, his phone exploded.”

Trump’s comments drew laughter from the crowd.

“He said, ‘I had that number for 20 years.’ His phone totally — I don’t know what he did with it — but it exploded,” Trump continued. “That was the beginning of a friendship, in a way. But it was Lindsey who had the last laugh because while I blew up his phone for one day, we became great friends, and Lindsey did not stop calling me for the next 10 years. It was not easy.”

Graham later responded to the 2015 incident by destroying his cellphone in a video titled “How to Destroy Your Cell Phone With Sen. Lindsey Graham.”

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“This is for all the veterans,” Graham said.

More than a decade later, Graham had transformed into a top ally for Trump, who said the senator “was a force of nature, and I will miss him greatly” in his eulogy.