{"id":635223,"date":"2026-07-14T12:38:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=635223"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:38:46","slug":"comedian-faces-backlash-for-remarks-following-grahams-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=635223","title":{"rendered":"Comedian faces backlash for remarks following Graham\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What passes for humor on the left found a comedienne mocking South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham\u2019s (R) death with a dig at his sexuality and \u201chope\u201d regarding the president\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe party of love and acceptance is anything but!\u201d<\/p>\n

The sudden death of the longtime lawmaker found many from across the aisle choosing between respectful silence and kind in memoriams. Steering clear of such decencies, Margaret Cho instead opted to fantasize about the deaths of President Donald Trump and Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell (R) with questionable hashtags and allusions to a homosexual lifestyle.<\/p>\n

Utilizing the hashtag \u201cfdt,\u201d meaning \u201cF*ck Donald Trump,\u201d along with \u201cresist\u201d and \u201cpride\u201d in a caption reading \u201cbye gurl,\u201d Cho took to Instagram on Sunday to express, \u201cBye, Lindsey. Bye, Lindsey Graham. From the closet to the coffin. Real seamless. Real seamless.\u201d<\/p>\n

She then went on to mention McConnell by name along with the theory that deaths \u201chappen in threes,\u201d suggesting she was thinking of the president as she concluded with the single word, \u201cHope.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Actress Margaret Cho mocks Lindsey Graham\u2019s death and appears to wish Trump is next pic.twitter.com\/hQ2shOppXt<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The following day, Cho returned to the \u201cfdt\u201d and \u201cresist\u201d hashtags as she reacted to the death of actor Sam Neill, maintaining her belief that McConnell is already dead \u2014 along with a great many other skeptics<\/a> about recent proof of life \u2014 and that, where it concerned her theory of celebrity deaths in threes, she \u201cwanted it to be somebody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Out of all the backlash that she faced, the comedienne chose to respond directly to a post from the Daily Wire\u2019s Ben Shapiro who had commented on Facebook about her \u201cexpressing her hope that another prominent Republican will die next,\u201d and, \u201creferencing rumors that [Graham] was secretly gay.\u201d<\/p>\n

The self-identified bisexual, who steers clear of the term over its inherent affirmation of two genders, went on to laugh as she responded to Shapiro asking, \u201cWhat is the opposite of starstruck?\u201d while dragging late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein into the mix with the hashtag addition of \u201creleasethefiles.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A post shared by Margaret Cho (@margaret_cho)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reaction on the original Instagram post, which had nearly 5,000 comments, included posts like,\u00a0\u201cMany of us despise most of Hollywood, but you don\u2019t hear us wishing death\/harm upon you, or celebrating when someone passes. The party of love and acceptance is anything but! Why I left the left after 30+ years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMocking someone\u2019s death says more about you than it does about him. A real comedian creates laughter; they don\u2019t confuse cruelty and outrage with humor,\u201d said another in part, as someone else wrote, \u201cMan, I\u2019m not a fan of [Lindsey] Graham, but I would never be happy for someone\u2019s death. Yikes! Comments are crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The backlash continued on X, where reactions called out the comedienne\u2019s lack of \u201cdecency as a human being\u201d while calling out the left at large for acting and behaving in performative ways.<\/p>\n

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Maggie Cho just may rot in hell. Where is your decency as a human being. Oh I forgot, you are not human but perhaps a piece of turd left from some alien mother of yours. Get your act together. Pathetic you all are. Time will come to those who hate. You have time to change.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Bob Garcia (@BobGarcia153816) July 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It\u2019s always the left that mocks a persons supposed sexual preference. They use it as an insult because they don\u2019t really stand for gay rights. Everything they do and say is just performative. They are the real bigots.<\/p>\n

\u2014 GMan (@GmanRetPilot) July 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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These are the same people who clutch their pearls when someone says the word retard.<\/p>\n

\u2014 (@CasuallyGreg) July 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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They have no qualms with putting their mental illnesses on full display. It\u2019s crazy that they don\u2019t know this isn\u2019t how mentally healthy people behave. I\u2019m actually super embarrassed for her.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jess Right (@Jess4u) July 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Margaret Cho on Lindsey Graham\u2019s death: \u201cBye Lindsey\u2026 from the closet to the coffin. Real seamless.\u201d Then \u201cit happens in threes.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not resistance. That\u2019s just ghoulish. The same crowd that preaches empathy and tolerance drops it the second the person voted the wrong way.\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Phil Nielsen (@PhilOutLoud) July 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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As expected. pic.twitter.com\/OaykD3jvNq<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 D-E-Harris (@D_E_Harris_Best) July 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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pic.twitter.com\/WmglFS0aop<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 @BasedAF1776X (@BasedAF1776X) July 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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What passes for humor on the left found a comedienne mocking South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham\u2019s (R) death with a dig at his sexuality and \u201chope\u201d regarding the president\u2019s health. \u201cThe party of love and acceptance is anything but!\u201d The sudden death of the longtime lawmaker found many from across the aisle choosing between respectful… Continue reading Comedian faces backlash for remarks following Graham\u2019s death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":635224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=635223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/635224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}