Donald Trump knows exactly why people like Lindsay Graham especially like to kiss his.
And according to Maggie Haman's new book, Confidence Man, Donald Trump told her specifically,
You know why Lindsay kisses my, so I'll endorse his friends.
That is an exact quote from Donald Trump.
In Maggie Haman's new book, He kisses my.
So I'll go out there and endorse his friends running for office.
Now, at first when I first saw this, I kind of took that as well.
That's pretty decent shot at Lindsay Graham.
I know what you're up to, Lindsay, you're just kissing up to me so that I'll go out
there and endorse your fr, endorse your friends.
But then I realized this was not actually an attack on Lindsay Graham.
This was Donald Trump trying to stroke his own ego and feel better about who he is as
a person.
This is Donald Trump telling us that my endorsement is so great grand and wonderful and so powerful
in this country that I have people lining up to kiss my behind just to get that endorsement
because I'm just so great and wonderful as we all know.
The truth is that Donald Trump's endorsement in many cases is actually the kiss of death.
He has had much better luck, I'll give him credit for this in this primary season.
But as we approach the general election, it looks like a lot of the people that he has
endorsed are headed towards humiliating defeats.
And these aren't just people that he said, Yes, I give you my hearted endorsement here.
These are people that he has shown up and done rallies for.
People like Dr. O, people like JD Vance, people like Blake Masters, all of those candidates
right now are struggling, some of course much worse than others like Dr. Oz and Blake Masters.
Uh, effectively at this point, I don't think they have any chance whatsoever of winning
their general elections.
So Donald Trump's success with endorsing people in the primaries might not turn out to be
successes at all once we hit that general election in November.
And of course, prior to this primary season, the vast majority of the people Donald Trump
had endorsed lost their races.
And studies also showed that if you got a Trump endorsement, it resulted in more money
for your opponent being raised than what your increase in fundraising ended up being from
the Trump endorsement.
So like I said, typically the Trump endorsement is a kiss of death.
So if that is why Lindsay Graham continues to suck up to Donald Trump and do his bidding,
then maybe Lindsay Graham needs to rethink that strategy.
You're not exactly getting a whole heck of a lot out of this when Donald Trump's endorsement
makes it far more likely that your candidates are not going to win.
But I do agree with Donald Trump to a degree.
I do think that is part of Lindsay Graham's motive, but I think the bigger part of the
motive, which I've explained in the past, is that Lindsay Graham is theora of the Senate.
You know, Theora the little fish that hangs on to the side of the shark going along so
he can get the little scraps that the big shark leaves behind.
Lindsay Graham did that with John McCain.
John McCain was a super powerful, high profile individual.
So Lindsay Graham latched onto him, but then John McCain died.
So Lindsay Graham needed a new shark and he figured that Donald Trump was probably the
biggest shark out there, so he latched himself onto him so he could get a little bit of his
scraps.
The shark provides you protection and food so you don't have to do anything for yourself.
That's what a Remora does, and that's exactly what Lindsay Graham is, and I think that is
possibly the best analogy for his behavior throughout his entire career in Washington
politics.