Graham calls Trump the Wizard of Oz: 'There's nothing behind the curtain'

Donald Trump’s immigration plan will be “his eventual undoing,” South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham says.

In an interview with The Des Moines Register published Tuesday, Graham outlined the shortcomings that he said would prevent Trump from getting the Republican presidential nomination.


“I think the more he exposes himself, putting forward solutions that are unworkable, the charm begins to fade after a while when you realize there’s nothing behind the curtain,” Graham said, calling Trump “the Almighty Oz” in the Republican field.

Trump’s plan on immigration, which includes building a wall across the 1,900-mile border with Mexico as well as deporting 11 million people, “is complete gibberish” and would receive no Democratic support and “almost no” Republican backing. The proposal comes across as “very harsh” and also gives fuel to critics who seek to brand the GOP as anti-Hispanic , Graham continued.

Trump and Graham have a history — last month at a campaign stop in South Carolina, Trump called Graham an “idiot” and a “stiff” and shared the senator’s private cellphone number publicly. That followed an interview in which Graham called Trump a “jackass” for his remarks.

As far as Trump’s call for seizing Iraq’s oil fields, Graham predicted that if the U.S. did that to any country, it would make them “enemies for life” and that it would be a good way “to start World War III.”

The South Carolina Republican laced into Trump for “silly stuff” that takes Republicans backward “when we need to go forward.” And as social conservatives begin to learn more about him, Graham predicted, “some of the air will come out” of Trump’s balloon.