Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said Sunday that she could envision President Donald Trump declaring a “national emergency” tied to Iran or another crisis, responding to speculation that such a move could affect the upcoming midterm elections.
The comments came after conservative podcaster Shannon Joy posted on X, “Trump doesn’t seem to care about the midterms. Who wants to bet he’ll declare a ‘national emergency’ because of Iran (or some other manufactured crisis) and try to cancel the elections in November?”
Greene replied, “Yeah, I could see it. INSANE.”
Her response follows a recent public break with the president over U.S. military action against Iran. Greene has sharply criticized the strikes in multiple social media posts, arguing they run counter to the “America First” platform that helped elect Trump.
“The Trump admin actually asked in a poll how many casualties voters were willing to accept in a war with Iran???” Greene wrote Saturday on X. “How about ZERO you bunch of sick f*cking liars. We voted for America First and ZERO wars.”
In another post, she added: “This is NOT freeing the Iranian people!!! This is murdering their children!!! WTF are you insane people doing??? AMERICA DOES NOT SUPPORT THIS!!!”
The exchange comes amid debate within Republican circles about the administration’s decision to strike Iran. Critics have questioned the timing, noting that Trump said in June that prior U.S. strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
In an interview Sunday with Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich, Trump defended the latest action, saying that without U.S. and Israeli missile strikes, Iran “would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks.”
However, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) offered a more measured assessment during an appearance on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”
“I don’t have present-day intelligence on what progress they had made toward rebuilding nuclear weapons since we bombed their facilities,” Cruz said. “I have no indication that they were anywhere close to getting nuclear weapons, because our bombing was devastating… That’s one of the reasons I urged President Trump, ‘Now is the time’” to strike.
The midterm elections, scheduled for November, are expected to be closely contested, with some political analysts projecting potential Republican losses in key districts. Greene’s comments reflect broader concerns among some conservatives about U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts and their potential domestic political implications.
A January report from Roll Call cited a prior Oval Office meeting in which Trump discussed elections during wartime. According to the report, during an Aug. 18 meeting, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke about the conditions required to restart elections in Ukraine.
“So you say, during the war, you can’t have elections,” Trump mused, according to the report. “So you mean if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections. I wonder what the fake news would say to that.”
MTG FTFU you are irrelevant. Just go in the backwoods and drink you Chardonnay. YOu sould like gutter trash and very bitter. Better yet ask Candance Owens go to with you and don’t come back.
She’s not a mainstream conservative. Just another conspiracy kook.
I would like to point out to these people that if we had stopped Hitler in the 1930s, like we are doing with the Iranian regime now, there would probably have been no 2nd WW.
But more insidious, the Iranians were close to developing nuclear weapons with missiles with which to deploy them.
You can be SURE that it would have been more destructive to the earth’s population than the 2nd WW ever was, if Iran had been allowed to proceed with their plans.
A small war to stop a BIG war is just common sense.
A few dictatorial type terrorist people dead, compared to millions ( possibly billions ) dead, is what we have to face.
What, libs, is your choice?
I used to be a fan of Marjorie Taylor Greene, but it seems she has gone off the deep end. President Trump’s move was 100% correct. Actually, I was concerned if he was ever going to get around to doing the right thing but I was trying to cut him some slack because there’s diplomacy involved that we the people do not see and cannot see until we walk a mile in the shoes of the presidency. If this action had not been taken, eventually, we or our children would have been facing a kamikaze regime with their finger on the button of a nuclear weapon, which there is no doubt they would have not feared using. When a mad man tells you he is going to kill you, you had better take him seriously.