President Donald Trump’s plan to strike Iran was condemned by Marjorie Taylor Greene
Washington, D.C.: President Donald Trump’s plan to strike Iran has drawn criticism from Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
In a long post on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday, Greene discussed her “thoughts on bombing Iran,” saying that she can “support President Trump and his great administration on many of the great things they are doing while disagreeing on bombing Iran and getting involved in a hot war that Israel started.” ” It is “not disloyalty,” the Georgia Republican said, to disagree with his policies.
“Critical thinking and having my own opinions is the most American thing ever,” Greene said. “Because contrary to what brainwashed Democrat boomers say, Trump is not a king, MAGA is not a cult, and President Trump has surrounded himself with people who once disagreed with him and even ran against him for President.”
Trump said on Saturday night that the United States has intervened in the Israel-Iran dispute by hitting three Iranian locations to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon. Greene, one of the president’s most ardent supporters in the Make America Great Again campaign, had advocated against further American engagement for days before the U.S. attack, claiming it would go against Trump’s pledges to keep the country out of expensive foreign conflicts.
Since entering Congress in 2021, Greene has always supported Trump and his MAGA program; however, Sunday’s statement seems to be the first time she has specifically called out the president. The representative might hurt her prospects in the 2026 midterm elections and risk Trump’s anger. She is running for reelection next year.
Following the Kentucky Republican’s criticism of Trump’s choice to strike Iran, the president has already reacted angrily to Representative Thomas Massie. According to Axios, the president’s political operation has begun an attempt to remove Massie from office.
In the days before the president’s declaration, Greene and other prominent Trump supporters had openly opposed U.S. engagement in the war.
Greene posted on X, after Trump’s announcement of the attacks on Iranian nuclear installations, saying, “Let us join together and pray for the safety of our U.S. troops and Americans in the Middle East.”
Her subsequent piece was a vehement critique of the choice to intervene in “another senseless foreign war.”
“My age is fifty-one. ‘Gen X is me,'” Greene wrote. “For as long as I can remember, I have seen our nation wage war abroad for foreign causes and on behalf of foreign interests. My father was deployed to Vietnam, another pointless foreign war, when Desert Storm began, and I was in the tenth grade.
She went on to say, “Americans have lost countless trillions of dollars in foreign conflicts that have never helped any American.
“For regime change, foreign conflicts, and military industrial base profits, American servicemen have been slaughtered and permanently ripped apart on a physical and emotional level. I’m tired of it.
“I can easily say that I support the right of nuclear-armed Israel to defend itself, but I also don’t want to fight or fund nuclear-armed Israel’s wars,” Greene went on. Not to mention any other nation.”
In the same article, she lambasted “Democrats in Congress that are all of a sudden clutching their pearls about Trump bombing Iran,” stating that they “FULLY SUPPORTED AND VOTED TO FUND Dementia ridden Biden’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and stood by Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.”
“It’s not surprising that a majority of Republicans oppose U.S. intervention in Israel’s war with Iran,” said Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene in a prior interview with Newsweek about a survey indicating that the majority of GOP voters opposed U.S. military involvement in the fight. Voters decided to put a stop to the everlasting conflicts in November. I’m not at all shocked. Americans want their government to concentrate on resolving domestic issues, and we have a lot of them to deal with.”
Newsweek recently quoted William F. Hall, an adjunct professor of political science and business at Webster University in St. Louis, as saying, “[Greene] currently finds herself in a predicament of having to choose between continuing to honor her past positions of being staunchly against further U.S. involvement in foreign wars … and continuing her staunch unwavering support for President Trump’s policy positions, including his evolving policy with respect to potential engagements in foreign wars in the Middle East Region, including his increasing potential to involve the U.S. in the Israeli-Iran war.”
It’s unclear whether the United States will strike Iran in addition to Israel. If Tehran retaliates against American soldiers, Trump has threatened further attacks.