A day after Donald Trump gave out Sen. Lindsey Graham’s number, the South Carolina Republican is demonstrating how to destroy a cellphone.
In a video by the Independent Journal Review, an online news organization, Graham throws a cellphone in a blender, cooks it in a toaster oven, lights it on fire, throws it off a building, and hits it with a knife, golf club, bricks and a stick.
{mosads}”If all us fails, you can always give your number to the Donald. This is for all of the veterans,” Graham says, before throwing a phone.
The video comes after Trump, a businessman and long-shot presidential candidate, defended giving out Graham’s phone number while speaking in South Carolina. Graham is competing with Trump for the GOP nomination.
Trump suggested that the move was to get back at Graham, who called him a “jackass” over his comments about Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) war record.
“What he said about John, I think, was offensive. He’s becoming a jackass at a time when we need to have a serious debate about the future of the party and the country,” Graham told CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” earlier this week.
Graham told CBS News he destroyed “stunt” phones in the video, and not his actual cell phone.
“My phone is actually safe and secure,” he said. “You know how hard it was to find 12 flip phones? It took us all day.”
He also jokingly defended his use of a relatively outdated phone, predicting that “it’s coming back one day. It would be the new thing one day.”
McCain tweeted about the Graham video.
The South Carolina Republican joked on Twitter that “it was time for an upgrade anyway.”
– Updated at 7:33 p.m.