Graham quips: I gave Trump my new cellphone number

Sen. Lindsey Graham said he gave President Trump his new cellphone number during a Tuesday meeting, more than a year and a half after the South Carolina Republican’s phone became the centerpiece of a public feud between the two.

“How good was the meeting with @POTUS?” the South Carolina Republican tweeted Tuesday. “I gave him my NEW cell phone number.”

How good was the meeting with @POTUS? 

I gave him my NEW cell phone number.

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 7, 2017

Graham also wrote that Trump is in “deal-making mode and I hope Congress is like-minded.”

{mosads}In July 2015, while Graham was still in the running for the GOP’s nomination, Trump gave out the lawmaker’s cellphone number to a crowd during a campaign speech in South Carolina.

“It’s amazing, he doesn’t seem like a very bright guy. He actually seems to me not as bright, obviously, as [Texas Gov.] Rick Perry,” Trump said during a speech in Sun City, S.C.

“Didn’t this guy call me four years ago? Yes, he called me three or four years ago, Lindsey Graham, I didn’t even know who he was.”

After telling the crowd that Graham had called him “begging” for a good reference to be on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” and to see if he could come visit Trump to receive some campaign cash, Trump held up a sheet of paper with a telephone number on it that he said was Graham’s.

“He gave me his number and I found the card, I wrote the number down. I don’t know if it’s the right number, let’s try it,” he told the crowd.

“Your local politician, he won’t fix anything, but at least he’ll talk to you.”

A day later, Graham recorded a video of him dramatically destroying the phone — with a meat cleaver, a blender, a golf club, fire and more. 

Graham has been one of the president’s top GOP critics, including opposing his warmer stance toward Russia and the president’s initial travel ban targeting people from seven predominately Muslim countries.