Former Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has torn into President Donald Trump over the collapse of the U.S. ceasefire with Iran.
The U.S. unleashed new airstrikes late Tuesday and revoked a license allowing Iran to sell oil in response to attacks on three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz – resuming hostilities just weeks after the president signed a memorandum of understanding with Tehran to end the fighting.
Lashing out over the development, the former Georgia representative invoked Trump’s many contradictory statements on the conflict, writing on X: “We are back to bombing Iran during the ceasefire for the Iran war that is not a war because Iran bombed a vessel for crossing the Strait of Hormuz that they don’t control yet apparently control.”
“Not sure how they bombed the vessel because we have totally and completely obliterated their military and beat them in the war that is not a war like 40 times now.”
She continued: “I’m so glad that Trump ran for president to end forever foreign wars otherwise I might start thinking this war that is not a war that we won like 40 times is starting to turn into another forever foreign war in the Middle East.
“Good thing Pete Hegseth, Secretary of the Department of Defense, I mean War, is headed to Israel to take orders from, I mean ask for advice, on how to totally wipe out Iran, I mean bring peace.”
Greene concluded: “I’m totally sure no one in the executive branch or donors will do any sort of insider trading based on super duper secret military decisions.
“You know the kind based on intelligence that Congress is going to fuse with Israel’s military after they all vote to pass the National Defense (war) Authorization Act. Because this is exactly what we all voted for when we said Make America Great Again.”
The ex-congresswoman was once a zealous Trump cheerleader but turned on him last year over his “One Big, Beautiful Bill” and the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, leaving Congress in January.
She remains a powerful anti-Trump voice on social media, routinely criticizing the president, particularly over his foreign policy decisions – notably the Iran war and the removal of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro – which, she has argued, are not consistent with the “America First” values his supporters elected him in 2024 to enact, nor the promises he made on the campaign trail.
The present conflict began when the U.S. and Israel launched their Operation Epic Fury airstrikes against Iran on February 28, which killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top officials.
However, Tehran retaliated by bombing U.S. allies and military assets across the Gulf and shuttering the strait, through which one-fifth of the world’s oil pass, driving up global fuel prices and leading to an uncomfortable stalemate.
The president reacted to the latest strikes – which Iranian media reported hitting dozens of small boats in the contested channel as well as Kharg Island, Qeshm Island and the port cities of Sirik and Bandar Abbas – by posting short clips of their targets exploding on his Truth Social platform, as well as a Roy Lichtenstein-inspired “BOOM!” meme.
Trump addressed the matter more seriously at the latest NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, where, sat beside Secretary-General Mark Rutte, he said he considered the deal he signed with Iran “over.”
Asked about the future of peace talks between the two nations, Trump said: “It’s a very interesting question. To me, I think it’s over. I don’t want to deal with them.
“They’re scum. They’re sick people. They’re led by sick people. As far as I’m concerned, it’s just a waste of time dealing with them.”
Rutte defended the American response in the strait, saying new airstrikes had been “absolutely necessary” to punish Iran for violating the terms of the memorandum of understanding they signed last month.
