Marjorie Taylor Greene slams Trump's Iran warning as betrayal of 2024 voter mandate

Marjorie Taylor Greene argued that voters opposed foreign wars, urging focus on domestic spending and protecting freedoms at home
Donald Trump vowed US intervention if peaceful demonstrators in Iran were harmed, declaring America 'locked and loaded' (Getty Images)
Donald Trump vowed US intervention if peaceful demonstrators in Iran were harmed, declaring America 'locked and loaded' (Getty Images)


WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday, January 1, 2026, to issue a warning to Iran about hurting peaceful protestors. In the post, he wrote that if they continued to kill them violently, the US would come to their rescue.

He added that America was “locked and ready to go,” and thanked everyone for their attention to the matter. 

Several representatives criticized Trump’s post, including former MAGA loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene, who said that Trump “threatening war” was “everything we voted against” in 2024. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speaks to reporters while arriving at the Capitol Hill Club for a meeting of the House Republican Conference on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Republicans are meeting as the Trump administration faces blowback after defense plans were posted to a group chat that accidentally included a prominent journalist. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga) speaks to reporters while arriving at the Capitol Hill Club for a meeting of the House Republican Conference on March 25, 2025, in Washington, DC (Al Drago/Getty Images)

Marjorie Taylor Greene urges Trump to focus on 'home'

Marjorie Taylor Greene, or MTG, took to X to criticize Donald Trump’s recent Truth Social post as she claimed that he was “threatening” war on Iran.

She criticized Trump supporters by stating that they spent the past week “threatening a tax revolt” because they were angry about “never-ending waste,” fraud, and abuse of their hard-earned money being diverted to foreigners and “foreign wars.”

She wrote that the focus should be on “tax dollars” at “home” in America and defending American citizens’ “God-given freedoms and rights.”

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago club on December 29, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. The two leaders held a bilateral meeting to discuss regional security in the Middle East as well as the U.S.-Israel partnership. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump holds a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago club on December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Thomas Massie, who joined forces with MTG to stand by the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, also criticized Trump’s Truth Social post on X. He said that the Trump administration should not be “wasting military resources” on another country’s internal affairs. 

He also added that the execution of the warning would require Congressional authorization and said that he believed the threat wasn’t about “freedom of speech in Iran.”

“It’s about the dollar, oil, and Israel,” he concluded. 

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 15: Steve Bannon, advisor to former President Donald Trump, departs the E. Bar
Steve Bannon advisor to President Donald Trump, departs the E Barrett Prettyman US Courthouse on June 15, 2022, in Washington, DC (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Steve Bannon compares Trump to Hillary Clinton on Iran

The former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon compared Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton on Friday while discussing the president’s threat to Iran.

While on ‘War Room’, Bannon said that people were teasing that Samantha Power and Hillary Clinton must have been at the Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party because Trump saying “we’re locked and loaded” was “straight” from their “playbook.”

In another segment of the show, he argued that the Trump administration should enforce the sanctions and let them “run the economy as they’re running it.”



He added that “they” didn’t know what they were doing, stating that Iran followed their religious law and not the laws of a free market economy.

“The economy will crash, and the Persian people will overthrow these guys just like they overthrew the Shah,” he added. 

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