Marjorie Taylor Greene leads Maga backlash to Trump’s Iran speech: ‘All I heard is war war war’:
Former Trump loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene has led backlash to the the president’s address to the nation, saying that all she heard was “war, war, war.”
President Trump’s 20-minute speech was focused on the ongoing conflict in Iran and saw the commander-in-chief threatening to “hit each and every one of their electric generating plants,” should they fail to agree to a peace deal.
But with gas prices soaring and fears the conflict is spiralling out of control, questions over Trump’s handling of the war are growing, even among Republicans.
“I wanted so much for President Trump to put America First,” Greene wrote on X. “That’s what I believed he would do.
“All I heard from his speech tonight was WAR WAR WAR.”
Greene, who broke with the president after she called for the release of the Epstein files, went on to say that the speech contained nothing about lowering the cost of living, reducing the deficit or anything about the country’s future.
“I’m so beyond done,” she continued. “I pray for our military and their families. I pray for innocent people all over the world.”
Trump was optimistic about the outcome of the conflict with Iran, which began when the US and Israel launched joint strikes on February 28.
According to the president, the operation was “on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly.”
Trump also warned that more strikes could soon be on the way.
“We’re going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks; we’re going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong,” Trump said. “In the meantime, discussions are ongoing.”
Joe Kent, the former counterterrorism chief who resigned over the Iran war, urged the Trump administration not to flood ground troops into the Islamic Republic.
“The best time to get out of a war of choice is now, before we lose more lives,” Kent wrote on X.
Democrats also tore into the address, with Representative Ted Lieu taking a swipe at the president’s claim that the country cannot fund a slew of public services and schemes.
“Democrats believe in taking care ‘of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things,’” Lieu wrote on X, quoting Trump. “Republicans and trump (sic) obviously do not. November is coming.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer described on X the address as “rambling, disjointed and pathetic.”
Ahead of the address, former Vice President Kamala Harris described the conflict in Iran as a “war the people do not want.”
“He has put American troops in harm’s way,” she continued, in a video posted on X. “Costs are rising by the day and, meanwhile, he has done nothing to address the needs of the people of America.”
Some Republicans did praise Trump’s speech, though, with Senator Tim Scott writing on X that the president was “right about the fanatical regime in Iran.”
“For too long they chanted death to America, pursued nuclear weapons, and killed Americans,” he continued. “The objective is clear, and I’m thankful our military is delivering on the mission. Americans are safer as a result.”
