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Comedian Torched Over Ghoulish Lindsey Graham Death Video

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Margaret Cho
Photo Credit: Charlie Nguyen from Berkeley, CA, United States of America, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Margaret Cho turned Sen. Lindsey Graham’s death into a social media punchline, then appeared to point toward President Donald Trump as a possible next name in her grim death comes in “threes” prediction.

The comedian posted a Facebook video Sunday mocking Graham, the South Carolina Republican who died suddenly on Saturday night at 71.

“Bye Lindsey… Bye Lindsey Graham. From the closet to the coffin, real seamless. Real seamless,” Cho said.

She then moved from Graham to Senate veteran Mitch McConnell, who has been hospitalized for nearly a month, and seemed to leave the third slot hanging.

“Um, also yeah, Mitch McConnell. So, it’s Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham… it does happen in threes. Hope,” Cho said.

The post also carried hashtags including “#resist” and “#fdt,” seemingly in reference to her hope that Trump would be the third Republican to go down.

Graham died at 10:23 p.m. Saturday. An autopsy Sunday suggested he died from an aortic dissection due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, though his office said the official paperwork was not finished.

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“The death certificate will be PENDING until all the toxicological and microscopic testing are finalized, and at that point the death certificate will be updated to reflect the cause of death and appropriately classify the manner of death,” Graham’s office stated.

McConnell released his own health update Sunday, explaining that he had been recovering from a fall and pushing back on speculation about more serious medical conditions.

“My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion,” McConnell said. “I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages.”

The reaction to Graham’s death grew ugly enough that even the left-leaning panel on ABC’s “The View” paused to criticize the online celebrations before taking aim at the late senator’s politics.

Ana Navarro opened the segment by calling out posts that reveled in Graham’s death.

“First thing I want to say is, I saw a lot of posts online this week kind of celebrating his death and rejoicing,” Navarro began.

She argued that the cruelty would not reach Graham, but it would reach the people who loved him.

“And listen, I know that Trump does that. He did it with Bob Mueller, he did it with John McCain, he did it with Rob Reiner. But it’s inhumane and lacking empathy. And the dead person is dead and can’t hear you and can’t read your posts,” she noted.

“But his family, his sister who he adopted when she was 13 because both of their parents died, is alive, and is hearing it,” Navarro continued.

“And so I think that for the benefit, for humanity, for having, you know, a normal decency towards the family of the dead, that just has to stop.”

Navarro, Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg still faulted Graham over his relationship with Trump.

Navarro described Graham before and after Trump as “two completely different Lindseys” and said she felt she had “buried Lindsey when John McCain died.”

Sara Haines also pushed back on the idea that Graham should not be humanized after death.

“I’m going to echo Ana’s sentiments that the person who passed won’t hear the people’s comments,” Haines said.

“I’m more of the thought that he is no longer at play. I did not know him at all. I didn’t know really much about him. But it did disturb me that people were online saying things like, don’t humanize him. You don’t have to humanize a human. He was a human.”

Haines closed her objection to the online reaction by turning back to the people left grieving.

“So there were people that loved him, there were people that cared for him,” Haines said. “And whether I disagreed with him completely or not, he’s gone. So my heart goes out to the people around him that are suffering.”

Cho was hardly alone in using Graham’s death to relitigate his politics.

Actor Michael Ian Black went after Graham on BlueSky, calling him a “parasite” and tying his legacy to Trump.

“More than anything, his legacy will be that of parasitic fealty,” Black wrote. “That his relationship with McCain seems, in retrospect, to be rooted in nothing more than opportunism, his relationship with Trump will be remembered as that of enabler-in-chief.”

Black also linked to his own Substack post accusing Graham of abandoning the principles he had championed while aligned with McCain so he could attach himself to Trump.

“Sweet Home Alabama” actor Ethan Embry took the death count further on BlueSky, writing that one Republican senator’s passing was not enough.

“I don’t see what the celebration is all about, there’s still 51 of em walking around.,” Embry wrote Sunday morning.

Far-left streamer Hasan Piker used a Sunday YouTube video to reject the respectful tone that often follows a lawmaker’s death and instead cast Graham as a warmonger.

“We like to take a look at the true worth of a man. We like to take a look at what these members of Congress have actually done,” Piker said. “Not the way that they cover it in mainstream media, but instead, the way of what their impact is and the way it should be covered.”

“I’ll start off by saying Lindsey Graham, in a long list of demonic entities, was exceptionally bloodthirsty. A bloodthirsty odious monster who loved war. There was never a war that Lindsey Graham did not fall in love with,” he accused.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., drew a different kind of criticism after posting a clip from “The Godfather Part III” in the wake of Graham’s death.

The scene featured Michael Corleone, played by Al Pacino, saying, “Just when I thought I was out … they pull me back in.”

A spokesperson for Mace defended the post as affectionate, saying Graham “loved a good line,” and pointed to others who had already moved toward the race for his seat.

“Two men announced they were running to replace Lindsey Graham yesterday, within hours of his passing,” the spokesperson stated. “Nancy Mace wasn’t one of them.”

Mace, who is finishing her final term in Congress after a failed South Carolina governor’s race, said during a Sunday Fox News appearance that she would consider running for Graham’s seat but was focused on respecting his legacy.

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