Greene Slams Trump Iran War Death Post 'Stupid'
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- Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly criticized President Trump's post about US service members' deaths in the Iran war, calling it 'stupid,' according to The Hill.
- Trump's post listed casualty figures from prior US wars as comparison points: Afghanistan (20 years, 2,000 dead), Iraq (9 years, 4,600 dead), Vietnam (19 years and 5 months, 58,220 dead), and Korea (3 years and 1 month, 36,574 dead).
Why it matters: The rebuke matters because Greene was once of Trump's most loyal congressional allies, and her calling his post 'stupid' is an unusual public break from the president by a former member of his own party. It lands as the administration faces its first US casualties from the Iran war, with a dignified transfer ceremony at Dover referenced elsewhere on the page.
