Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) compared President Donald Trump to a dictatorafter he issued a tough warning to the leaders of Iran after they issued threats against the United States.
On Sunday, Iran launched rockets that landed less than a mile from the U.S. embassy in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq. Although no Americans were injured, U.S. officials took it as a direct threat against the United States.View image on Twitter
President Trump warned Iran that the U.S. would hold nothing back if threats continued to be made toward the American people. In a tweet sent Sunday, Trump warned that an attack on Americans could be the “end of Iran.”
Hirono didn’t support the president’s tough response to Iranian threats. In an interview on “New Day” on CNN Monday morning, the senator condemned Trump’s response to Iran and claimed the president was acting like the dictator “he wants to be.”
“If the president thinks that he can resolve these problems with military might he’s so wrong. There is something [Former Defense] Secretary [James] Mattis said, you know, ‘we need a diplomatic resolution to all these conflicts.’ And so, this is the president once again thumping his chest and acting like he is the dictator that I think he wants to be.” – READ MORE