President Donald Trump lashed out at the four Republicans who lent their votes to a war powers resolution against the Iran war this week, calling them grandstanders and questioning their patriotism.
Wednesday’s vote represents the latest blow for a president increasingly at odds with his own party in Congress.
“Yesterday, in a meaningless vote, the House voted, 4 bad Republicans and all of the Dumocrats, to limit my War Powers, right in the middle of my final negotiations to end the War with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday morning. “Who would do such an unpatriotic thing. They know where the negotiations stand.”
The Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.), Tom Barrett (Mich.), Warren Davidson (Ohio) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Penn.) joined House Democrats on a largely symbolic resolution to bring the war to an end, absent congressional approval. They come from diametrically different ends of the party, but united on Wednesday to rebuke the Middle East war, now well into its fourth month.
Their offices did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
It comes as the White House looks for a diplomatic breakthrough in peace talks with Tehran. Negotiations have sputtered since an April ceasefire brought hostilities between the two sides to a temporary halt.
“The Democrats are fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “They would rather have our Country fail than give me another, of many, victories. The four Republicans, that’s a whole other story – They’re GRANDSTANDERS! They should be ashamed of themselves.”
At least one of the Republicans won’t be in office for long.
Massie, long a thorn in the side of the president, lost his primary election last month to former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, a little-known Trump-backed challenger.
