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While Graham is just a sad toady to the president in exile now, he's not alone.

These agencies’ once gold-plated professional standings plummeted precipitously because of their leaders’ willingness to toady to Trump and his anti-science policies.

Why is it so upsetting to hear LeBron James toady to China?

When I asked Graham whether he ever worried about being seen as a toady to Trump, his voice assumed a slightly clipped edge.

“Why not demolish all Western-style apartment blocks…so as not to toady to foreign powers?” wrote one contributor to an online forum.