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MTG leads outraged reaction to Trump’s foul-mouthed Easter threats to Iran: ‘He has gone insane’
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Former GOP congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene led the furious backlash to President Donald Trump’s foul-mouthed Easter Sunday threat to Iran, writing on social media: “He has gone insane.”
The 79-year-old president raged on his Truth Social platform just after 8 a.m. Sunday morning, writing: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F***in’ Strait, you crazy b*****ds, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH!”
He finished the message, posted early on Easter Sunday: “Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
Greene, who was once a Trump loyalist, said Sunday that everyone in Trump’s administration who claims to be Christian “needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God,” and “intervene in Trump’s madness.”
“I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit,” Greene wrote on X.
Greene slammed Trump’s threats as a move that would ultimately hurt the Iranian people, “the very people Trump claimed he was freeing.”
“On Easter, of all days, we as Christians should be reminded that the son of God died and rose from the grave so that we can be forgiven once and for all of our sins. Jesus commanded us to love one another and forgive one another. Even our enemies,” Greene wrote.
“Our President is not a Christian, and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians,” she continued, noting that Trump officials should be working toward peace, not “escalating war that is hurting people.”
“This [is] NOT what we promised the American people when they overwhelmingly voted in 2024, I know, I was there more than most. This is not making America great again, this is evil,” Greene concluded.
Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, called the Easter message “completely, utterly unhinged,” and said if he were in Trump’s Cabinet, he would be “calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment.” The 25th Amendment provides for the temporary transfer of the president’s powers to the vice president.
“He’s already killed thousands. He’s going to kill thousands more,” Murphy wrote on X.
Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as White House communications director in Trump’s first term but who has since become a fierce critic of the president, tweeted: “It was at this point that our Founders thought the best thing to do would be to remove a mad man who has the executive office. It became more formalized with the 25th amendment, but more people now should be calling for this man’s removal.”
Several journalists marveled at the bizarre Easter message, reposting a screenshot of Trump’s Truth Social post on X. CNN’s Jake Tapper even cautioned viewers: “If your children are watching, be warned…the president did not use polite language.”
One social media user noted: “We were so innocent once,” comparing the Easter threats to Iran to Trump’s 2015 Easter message, in which he wished “everyone, including the haters and losers, a very happy Easter.”
Trump’s threatening message on Sunday comes as U.S. forces continue to conduct strikes within Iranian airspace following the start of the war in late February.
The president has vowed there will be more aggressive attacks if the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway that serves as a passage for a large portion of the world’s oil, remains closed. The passageway’s closure has caused global oil prices to soar past $100 a barrel.
However, there has been no indication that Trump’s threats have been effective, and Iranian officials maintain that peace talks are not happening in any meaningful sense.
Trump, who early in the war stated it would likely last only a matter of weeks, has grown incensed by the lack of progress. Similar to other messages he has recently put on Truth Social, the president’s Easter message indicates that he is thinking about targeting Iranian civilian infrastructure, which could lead to the U.S. military violating international law.
The president also announced early Sunday that the U.S. airman who had been missing since Friday after a U.S. fighter jet was shot down over Iran, had been rescued.
A second crew member had already been rescued.
Trump wrote just after midnight that the service member was injured but “will be just fine.”
The fighter jet was the first U.S. aircraft to have crashed in Iranian territory since the conflict began.
