Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was quick to praise
President Trump on Tuesday night during an appearance on
Fox News, saying he is "methodical in his thinking" and is the "first president in the last 40 years who really understands the Iranians."Graham was interviewed by host
Sean Hannity just a few hours after
Iran launched more than a dozen missiles against two Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops. Graham said he has "complete confidence" that Trump will keep service members safe, and thanked the troops for serving as "the virtual wall between us and radical Islam" and keeping "these bastards at bay."The attacks were "an act of war," Graham said, and he's waiting to see what Trump, who has "one of the best national security teams that I've seen since I've been up here," will do in response. The president doesn't want a regime change, Graham continued, but he does want to see Iranian officials change their behavior. "We are dealing with religious Nazis," he said. "They really mean it when they want to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews. They've been disrupting the Mideast for 40 years. It needs to stop."