Former Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene led the backlash against President Donald Trump’s foul-mouthed threats against Iran on Easter Sunday, writing on social media: “He’s crazy.”
Shortly after 8 a.m. on Sunday, the 79-year-old president angrily wrote on his Truth social platform: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day and Bridge Day, all in Iran. It won’t get any better than this!!! Open the f**king straits, you crazy bastards, or you will live in hell – look!”
He posted this message early on Easter Sunday: “Praise be to Allah. President Donald J. Trump.”
Greene, a former Trump loyalist, said Sunday that everyone in the Trump administration who calls themselves a Christian “needs to get down on their knees and ask God for forgiveness” and “intervene in Trump’s madness.”
“I know all of you and him, he’s gone crazy and all of you are complicit,” Green wrote on X.
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene led outrage over President Donald Trump’s Easter profanity (Getty Images)
Green slammed Trump’s threat, arguing that the move would ultimately harm the Iranian people, “the very people Trump claims he is freeing.”
“On Easter Day, as Christians we should be reminded that the Son of God died and rose from the grave so that all of our sins could be forgiven once for all. Jesus commands 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 committed to peace rather than “escalating wars that hurt people.”
“this [is] I know this is not the promise we made to the American people when we voted overwhelmingly in 2024, and I’m involved in this more than most. This doesn’t make America great again, it’s evil,” Green concluded.
Chris Murphy, the Democratic senator from Connecticut, called the Easter message “completely, completely unhinged” and said that if he were in Trump’s cabinet, he would “call in constitutional lawyers on the 25th Amendment.” The 25th Amendment provides for the temporary transfer of presidential power to the Vice President.
“He has killed thousands of people. He will kill many more,” Murphy wrote on X.
Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as White House communications director during Trump’s first term but later became a fierce critic of the president, wrote on Twitter: “It was at this point that our Founding Fathers decided the best thing to do was to remove a lunatic from holding executive office. This became more official with the 25th Amendment, but now more people should be calling for this man’s removal.”
Several journalists were surprised by the strange Easter message and retweeted a screenshot of Trump’s Truth Society post on X. CNN’s Jake Tapper even warned viewers: “If your kids are watching, be aware… the president is not using polite language.”
Trump vowed to take more aggressive action against Iran if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed (POOL/AFP, Getty Images)
“How innocent we were,” one social media user noted, comparing Easter threats to Iran to Trump’s 2015 Easter message in which he wished “everyone, including the haters and losers, a Happy Easter.”
Trump’s threatening message on Sunday came as U.S. forces continued to launch attacks in Iranian airspace after the war broke out in late February.
The president has vowed that more aggressive attacks will occur if the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway through which much of the world’s oil passes, remains closed. The closure of the channel caused global oil prices to surge above $100 a barrel.
However, there is no sign that Trump’s threats are effective, and Iranian officials insist that the peace talks are not going anywhere meaningful.
Most of the world’s oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
Trump said early in the war the war might last only a few weeks, but grew angry at the lack of progress. Similar to his other recent messages on the Truth Society, the president’s Easter message suggests he is considering targeting Iranian civilian infrastructure, which could lead to U.S. forces violating international law.
The president also announced earlier Sunday that a U.S. pilot missing since a U.S. fighter jet was shot down over Iran on Friday had been rescued.
The second crew member has been rescued.
After midnight, Trump wrote that the service member was injured but “will be fine.”
The fighter jet was the first U.S. aircraft to crash in Iran since the conflict began.
