What passes for humor on the left found a comedienne mocking South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R) death with a dig at his sexuality and “hope” regarding the president’s health.
“The party of love and acceptance is anything but!”
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.
Utilizing the hashtag “fdt,” meaning “F*ck Donald Trump,” along with “resist” and “pride” in a caption reading “bye gurl,” Cho took to Instagram on Sunday to express, “Bye, Lindsey. Bye, Lindsey Graham. From the closet to the coffin. Real seamless. Real seamless.”
She then went on to mention McConnell by name along with the theory that deaths “happen in threes,” suggesting she was thinking of the president as she concluded with the single word, “Hope.”
Actress Margaret Cho mocks Lindsey Graham’s death and appears to wish Trump is next pic.twitter.com/hQ2shOppXt
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 12, 2026
The following day, Cho returned to the “fdt” and “resist” hashtags as she reacted to the death of actor Sam Neill, maintaining her belief that McConnell is already dead — along with a great many other skeptics about recent proof of life — and that, where it concerned her theory of celebrity deaths in threes, she “wanted it to be somebody else.”
Out of all the backlash that she faced, the comedienne chose to respond directly to a post from the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro who had commented on Facebook about her “expressing her hope that another prominent Republican will die next,” and, “referencing rumors that [Graham] was secretly gay.”
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, “What is the opposite of starstruck?” while dragging late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein into the mix with the hashtag addition of “releasethefiles.”
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Reaction on the original Instagram post, which had nearly 5,000 comments, included posts like, “Many of us despise most of Hollywood, but you don’t 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.”
“Mocking someone’s death says more about you than it does about him. A real comedian creates laughter; they don’t confuse cruelty and outrage with humor,” said another in part, as someone else wrote, “Man, I’m not a fan of [Lindsey] Graham, but I would never be happy for someone’s death. Yikes! Comments are crazy.”
The backlash continued on X, where reactions called out the comedienne’s lack of “decency as a human being” while calling out the left at large for acting and behaving in performative ways.
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.
— Bob Garcia (@BobGarcia153816) July 14, 2026
It’s always the left that mocks a persons supposed sexual preference. They use it as an insult because they don’t really stand for gay rights. Everything they do and say is just performative. They are the real bigots.
— GMan (@GmanRetPilot) July 13, 2026
These are the same people who clutch their pearls when someone says the word retard.
— (@CasuallyGreg) July 13, 2026
They have no qualms with putting their mental illnesses on full display. It’s crazy that they don’t know this isn’t how mentally healthy people behave. I’m actually super embarrassed for her.
— Jess Right (@Jess4u) July 13, 2026
Margaret Cho on Lindsey Graham’s death: “Bye Lindsey… from the closet to the coffin. Real seamless.” Then “it happens in threes.”
That’s not resistance. That’s just ghoulish. The same crowd that preaches empathy and tolerance drops it the second the person voted the wrong way.…
— Phil Nielsen (@PhilOutLoud) July 13, 2026
As expected. pic.twitter.com/OaykD3jvNq
— D-E-Harris (@D_E_Harris_Best) July 13, 2026
— @BasedAF1776X (@BasedAF1776X) July 12, 2026
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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