At a South Carolina rally for Senator Lindsey Graham, President Trump said: "When a country no longer has a navy, air force, radar, technical equipment and manufacturing capacity, its leader has been eliminated, second-tier leaders have been eliminated, and some third-tier leaders have been eliminated. In fact, that becomes a big problem for me because I really don't know who to deal with. This is the only country in the world where no one wants to be president. So this is a bit troublesome."