Lindsey Graham remembered by Trump as ‘giant of the US Senate’ at funeral

President Donald Trump has remembered Lindsey Graham as a “giant of the United States Senate” at the late lawmaker’s funeral in Washington.

In his eulogy, Trump also called Graham, who died earlier this month at the age of 71, a “true American original, who left us much too soon”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also attended the funeral on Tuesday to pay their respects to Graham, who was a major supporter of both countries.

“He was a man who gave America the full measure of his good and mighty heart until that heart itself just gave out,” Trump said.

Graham had just returned home from a trip to Kyiv in Ukraine to meet with President Zelensky when he died of an “aortic dissection” – a tear in the heart’s main artery.

“He died doing the work he was born to do,” Trump said.

Graham first won election to the US Senate in 2022, where he represented the state of South Carolina until his death.

He developed a reputation as one of the Senate’s most prominent foreign policy hawks. He supported the US war with Iran before his death and was a strong proponent of Israel.

He was also one of Ukraine’s top allies in the Senate, at a time when the Republican Party remained split on the extent to which the US should intervene in global conflicts.

“Nothing of significance happened anywhere in the world without Lindsey Graham having a view on it,” Trump noted.