# Donald Trump — "We're gonna get it done, Lindsey" > [!quote] "He was pushing the SAVE America act like crazy…. And I said, 'Well, we're gonna get it done, Lindsey. We're gonna get it done.'" > — Donald Trump, NBC's *Meet the Press*, July 12, 2026, recounting a phone call he says he had with Lindsey Graham shortly before Graham's death ## Context The morning after Senator [[Lindsey Graham]] died on July 11, 2026, [[Donald Trump]] appeared on *Meet the Press* and used the death to promote the [[SAVE Act]] — the documentary-proof-of-citizenship voter bill Trump routinely calls the "SAVE America Act." Trump claimed he had spoken to Graham by phone shortly before his death and that Graham said, "We're all set for the SAVE America Act." Graham had not been a public champion of the bill; his death was folded into the sales pitch within hours. > [!warning] Sourcing note > The wording above follows Heather Cox Richardson's July 12, 2026 rendering of the *Meet the Press* interview; the NBC transcript is JavaScript-gated and could not be pulled verbatim at build time. Contemporary reporting (Salon) quotes a closely related line: Trump called Graham's death "a big blow to the SAVE America Act." Treat the exact phrasing as HCR's rendering pending a primary transcript check. ## Why This Matters The quote is a compact portrait of instrumental loyalty: a dead institutionalist conscripted as a posthumous endorser of a voter-suppression bill, using Trump's own misnomer for it. It ties [[Lindsey Graham]]'s capitulation arc to the live [[SAVE Act]] fight and to the vacancy his death opened in [[SC-Sen-2026]]. ## See Also - [[Lindsey Graham]] - [[SAVE Act]] - [[SC-Sen-2026]] - [[Donald Trump]]