During a Wednesday night, May 27 appearance on Sean Hannity's Fox News show, conservative Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) praised U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East policy — including his war in Iran. Graham even called for the Nobel Peace Prize to be renamed "the Trump Prize," setting off a barrage of scathing comments and biting mockery on social media.

Graham, a former Trump critic turned close ally, argued, "If he can pull this off, if he can get Saudi Arabia, the center of Islam for the entire world, to recognize the Jewish state Israel, he'll have ended the Arab-Israeli conflict that's been going on for thousands of years…. They should change the Nobel Prize to the Trump Prize."

The Independent's Owen Scott noted, "Trump has been open about wanting a Nobel Peace Prize, claiming in the Oval Office last year, 'I deserve it, but they will never give it to me.' María Corina Machado, a prominent opposition leader to now-deposed (Venezuelan) President Nicolás Maduro, presented her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump in January. Earlier that same month, U.S. forces had seized Maduro in Caracas…. On Monday, Trump demanded, on Truth Social, that amid diplomatic efforts to end the war with Iran, multiple Middle Eastern countries should sign the Abraham Accords."

After Graham's Fox News appearance, it didn't take long for users of X, formerly Twitter, to bombard the conservative South Carolina senator with blistering comments — which came from both the left and the right.

The group Veterans for Responsible Leadership tweeted, "There's really not much to say about Lindsey anymore. He is just a sad, pathetic little man."

Republicans Against Trump, a conservative group, posted, "Lindsey Graham: 'They should change the Nobel Prize to the Trump Prize.' Lindsey's groveling ahead of South Carolina's GOP primary is reaching humiliating levels."

In a separate tweet, Republicans Against Trump posted, "Lindsey Graham is everything that's wrong with our politics."

Progressive firebrand Mehdi Hasan, founder of Zeteo and a former MS NOW (then MSNBC) host, wrote, "FFS." FFS is short for "for f––'s sake."

Writer and HBOMax producer Andy Ostroy said of Graham, "Girl, stop. You're humiliating yourself."

Never Trump conservative Jeff Clabault tweeted, "Graham is the embodiment of humiliation and self-flagellation."

X user Mark Roath posted, "I am trying to decide who is brown nosing Donald Trump more Lindsey Graham or Bibi Netanyahu."

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