“I gave him my NEW cell phone number," Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) joked about President Donald Trump. | AP Photo Graham: I gave my new phone number to Trump

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) joked that his Tuesday meeting with President Donald Trump had gone so well he gave the president his new phone number — a detente of sorts after Trump infamously read aloud Graham’s cellphone number during a campaign event in 2015.

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


Trump and Graham have faced off often since the start of the campaign. Along with reading Graham’s cellphone number, Trump has called him “sadly weak on immigration” and “always looking to start World War III,” among other insults.

Graham has been an outspoken opponent of Trump, his former GOP primary rival, including raising questions about the ties between Trump's campaign and Russia. However, the South Carolina senator struck a more optimistic tone following their lunch meeting Tuesday.

“President Trump is strongly committed to rebuilding our military which is music to my ears,” Graham tweeted, adding that Trump “is in deal-making mode and I hope Congress is like-minded.”