Trump Calls War Critics "Foolish" During Easter Egg Roll, Doubles Down on Iran Threats

President Donald Trump used the White House Easter Egg Roll -- traditionally a family-friendly event -- to attack Americans skeptical of his escalating war with Iran, calling them "foolish" when pressed by reporters about growing opposition to the conflict.

"They're foolish, because the war is about one thing: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon," Trump told reporters at the Monday event, which he attended alongside the first lady. "Had we not broken the Barack Hussein Obama agreement, you know what I am talking about. The Iran Nuclear Deal. This was years ago in my first term."

Trump claimed that without his decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, "Israel would have been gone. Extinguished. Israel would have been wiped off the face of the Earth and the entire Middle East would have been, at minimum, in big trouble."

The president's comments came after he posted a profanity-laced threat on Truth Social Sunday demanding Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz. "Open the F----- Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah," Trump wrote, adding that Tuesday would be "Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran."

When asked about the vulgar language, Trump said he used it only to "make a point." The post, which threatened to bomb civilian infrastructure, drew widespread condemnation -- including from unexpected quarters.

Former Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, typically a Trump ally, issued a blistering rebuke of the president's Easter Sunday post. "On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted," Greene wrote. "Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the president and intervene in Trump's madness."

Greene, who resigned from Congress earlier this year, went further: "I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit."

The former congresswoman challenged the administration's justification for war, noting that "the Strait is closed because the U.S. and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they've been telling for decades that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon."

"You know who has nuclear weapons? Israel," Greene added. "They are more than capable of defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it."

Greene specifically criticized Trump's threat to bomb power plants and bridges, arguing it would harm ordinary Iranians rather than the government. "Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing," she wrote.

The timing of Trump's post -- Easter Sunday -- particularly angered Greene, who invoked Christian teachings about forgiveness and loving one's enemies. "On Easter, of all days, we as Christians should be reminded that the son of God died and rose from the grave so that we can be forgiven once and for all of our sins," she wrote. "Jesus commanded us to love one another and forgive one another. Even our enemies."

Greene concluded by declaring that Trump "is not a Christian" and that his words and actions should not be supported by those practicing the Christian faith.

The Easter Egg Roll incident also included what attendees described as a "disturbing sex comment" that silenced the audience, though details of that remark were not immediately available.

Trump's willingness to dismiss war critics as "foolish" at a children's event underscores how thoroughly his Iran policy has consumed his administration. The president has framed the conflict in apocalyptic terms, claiming he is preventing the destruction of Israel while threatening to devastate Iranian civilian infrastructure.

The fracture with Greene -- a former staunch ally -- suggests Trump's Iran escalation may be testing the limits of even his most loyal supporters' willingness to follow him into open-ended conflict.