President Trump on Monday slammed Democrats for criticizing his administration’s strikes in Iran over the weekend.
“The Radical Left Democrats, a Party that has completely lost its way, are complaining bitterly about the very necessary and important attack, by the United States and Israel, on Iran,” Trump wrote in a Monday evening Truth Social post.
“What most people understand is that they are only complaining BECAUSE I DID IT and, if I didn’t do it, they would be screaming — Why didn’t ‘TRUMP’ attack Iran, he should do it, IMMEDIATELY? There’s nothing surprising about this!” the president added.
Trump’s comments come amid multiple statements from Democrats denouncing “Operation Epic Fury.”
The president has lauded the strikes on the Middle Eastern country made in conjunction with Israel. Trump said operations were running “ahead of schedule” and told reporters the attacks could continue for “four to five weeks.” He has also said that more American casualties could come as a result of the conflict. Six American servicemembers have died so far in the operation.
“The fact is, whatever I do, [the Democrats] will be on the opposite side,” Trump wrote in the Monday post.
“These people are SICK, CRAZY, and DEMENTED, but America, despite them all, is now BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE,” he continued.
Democrats have said the strikes constitute an “illegal war.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said “Donald Trump chose intentionally not to come before Congress, which is why we’re going to force this vote on a war powers resolution and make sure that we do everything we can to constrain him at this point in time.”
Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) are preparing to introduce a resolution in the House while Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) will do the same in the upper chamber. The resolutions aim to stop Trump from continuing without congressional approval but are so far unlikely to succeed.
Khanna said it would be “a disastrous vote for any Democrat — to vote for Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East” during an appearance on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.”
Democrats had already been raising concerns with the Trump administration’s foreign policy moves before the weekend’s strikes on Iran. And the recent Democratic criticism echoes past concerns many have had regarding the administration’s actions.
“There is no strategic goal,” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) wrote of U.S. military operations abroad in a post on the social platform X after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a Monday news conference.
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D- N.Y.) wrote in a post on X that the congressional authorization needed for war has “neither been sought by the President nor granted by Congress.”
However, Republican lawmakers including Reps. Pat Harrigan (R-N.C.) and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) say Trump is acting in accordance with the law noting that the War Powers Resolution gives the president the authority to act for up to 60 days without prior congressional approval.
