CNN Hypes Space Lasers Lady to Call Trump Crazy, Says He’d Nuke Iran

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 9th, 2026 2:05 PM

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Imagine having the gall to invite someone who thinks a cabal of people were starting wild fires with space lasers onto a major cable news outlet to call someone else crazy. Well, that’s exactly what CNN’s The Situation Room did on Thursday when they invited former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on the show to attack President Trump and call for his cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment. She also claimed Trump was close to launching nukes against Iran.

Co-host Wolf Blitzer made it clear at the top of the interview that they brought Greene on for one reason, to suggest Trump was insane and he needed to be removed: “Congresswoman, thanks so much for joining us. I know you recently called for the president to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution after that threat that he made about destroying the whole civilization of Iran.”

Blitzer perfectly teed her up to explain why Trump was a madman threatening the world:

BLITZER: The President has a long history of shocking and unprecedented social media posts. Why was this the final straw for you?

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA): Because it's absolute madness. How can any person that is mentally stable call for an entire civilization of people to be murdered, to be wiped out, to never come back again? That's what the president called for.

And that that shows that there's serious instability in his thinking, that he would not only would he even say that in a private room, perhaps with his advisors, but actually go to his megaphone, his Truth Social, and post that for the entire country and the entire world.

Claiming Trump was “out of control,” she called on the “people within the administration” to “step up, take responsibility and rein this in.”

 

 

Continuing to demonstrate their newfound respect for someone the network had chided in the past, co-host Pamela Brown prompted Greene to counter the Trump administration’s defense that the President was just using “tough rhetoric”:

BROWN: The White House is claiming it was the President's tough rhetoric that brought Iran to its knees. What do you say to that?

GREENE: I'm sorry. That's not - that's not tough rhetoric. It's it's insanity. It's calling for the murder of an entire civation [sic] of men, women, children of - of innocent civilians. That's not - that is not what I would call proper or even decent - um, negotiations.

Without evidence, Greene suggested Trump was on the verge of launching nuclear weapons against Iran:

Presumably, we can only presume that that would happen through nuclear bombs, because that's the type of horrific weaponry that would be used to wipe out an entire civilization. So no, I pushed back on that. And I think the American people fully agree. Everyone was out raged.

Blitzer followed up by wondering: “[D]o you genuinely believe President Trump had the intention of killing Iran's entire population of more than 90 million people?”

“So I can only take him at his word because those are the words that he spoke to the entire world,” Greene answered, in part.

Greene would later go on to commend other kooky people like Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones for saying similarly negative things about Trump. And that’s the crux of why CNN had her on.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

CNN’s The Situation Room
April 9, 2026
10:34:52 a.m. Eastern

WOLF BLITZER: Congresswoman, thanks so much for joining us. I know you recently called for the president to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution after that threat that he made about destroying the whole civilization of Iran.

The President has a long history of shocking and unprecedented social media posts. Why was this the final straw for you?

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA): Because it's absolute madness. How can any person that is mentally stable call for an entire civilization of people to be murdered, to be wiped out, to never come back again? That's what the president called for.

And that that shows that there's serious instability in his thinking, that he would not only would he even say that in a private room, perhaps with his advisors, but actually go to his megaphone, his Truth Social, and post that for the entire country and the entire world.

And I'm - this is - it's - it's unreal. This should never be tolerated. Um, I know that's a, it's a very difficult, hard stretch to - to see it actually coming through, but the conversation needs to be had and he's out of control. And people within the administration need to step up, take responsibility and rein this in.

PAMELA BROWN: And administration officials, as we've heard, have said that he was ready to follow through with this threat. Just hours after he made it, he announced this two week cease fire. That's still very tenuous at the moment. The White House is claiming it was the President's tough rhetoric that brought Iran to its knees. What do you say to that?

GREENE: I'm sorry. That's not - that's not tough rhetoric. It's it's insanity. It's calling for the murder of an entire civation [sic] of men, women, children of - of innocent civilians. That's not - that is not what I would call proper or even decent - um, negotiations.

There should be negotiations happening. And they did happen. And J.D. Vance, the vice president, was the one that helped bring that cease fire. It doesn't seem to be much of a cease fire, but it is supposedly a cease fire. And that happened through negotiations through J.D. Vance. And J.D. Vance did not go to his social media and threaten to murder every single man, woman and child in Iran.

Presumably, we can only presume that that would happen through nuclear bombs, because that's the type of horrific weaponry that would be used to wipe out an entire civilization. So no, I pushed back on that. And I think the American people fully agree. Everyone was out raged.

BLITZER: I just want to be clear, congresswoman, do you genuinely believe President Trump had the intention of killing Iran's entire population of more than 90 million people? If Iran had not agreed to a cease fire? Is the U.S. military, for example, even capable of that?

GREENE: I don't think that our good men and women in the U.S. military would want to even carry something like that out. That's -  that's the other thing. Um, and I think that's important to point out.

We have, we, our men and women in the military are the greatest among us. They're serving our country, defending our freedoms. And I'm so grateful to them and I support them so much. But we should never have a commander-in-chief that would call for for the great men and women of the United States military to wipe out an entire civation [sic] - civilization and put that on their shoulders.

And, you know, we've already got so many veterans that live with PTSD every single day in America - um, that that can't sleep at night with terrible nightmares of, of the wars that they fought in, in foreign lands, foreign wars, and foreign lands - um, not for America, for foreign countries, and foreign purposes. And this is what the president was talking about.

So I can only take him at his word because those are the words that he spoke to the entire world.

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