'Vile.' Trump's threat to Iran's infrastructure inflames MAGA tensions

President Donald Trump’s strongly-worded Easter threat to blow up Iranian infrastructure has prominent figures on the right pushing back, further inflaming tensions in his MAGA base over Iran.

Former GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene even suggested Trump should be removed from office under the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution after he doubled down on his threat in another post on April 7 that said: "a whole civilization will die tonight."

Trump has been issuing increasingly dire warnings about the damage he may inflict on Iran, alarming some conservative leaders.

Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican and staunch Trump ally, expressed concerns about attacking Iranian bridges and power plants.

“I am hoping and praying … this really is bluster,” Johnson said April 6 on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast. “I do not want to see us start blowing up civilian infrastructure. I do not want to see that.”

Trump gave Tehran a deadline of 8 p.m. on April 7 to open the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has blocked oil from flowing out of the Middle East, or face a dramatic escalation in U.S. attacks.

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,” Trump wrote early in the morning on April 5, Easter Sunday. “There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F----’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”

Prominent conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said Trump's post is "vile" on "every level."

"It begins with a promise to use the U.S. military, our military, to destroy civilian infrastructure in another country," Carlson said April 6 on "The Tucker Carlson Show." "Which is to say to commit a war crime, a moral crime, against the people of the country."

Carlson said that destroying power plants would lead to the death of civilians, saying "babies connected to incubators die. People in hospitals die." He also took issue with the language Trump used, criticizing him for “tweeting out the f word on Easter morning” and "mocking the religion of Iran.”

“OK, if you seek a religious war that’s a good idea,” said Carlson, a former Fox News host. “But by the way, no decent person mocks other people’s religions.”

Carlson added that Trump’s post also indirectly mocks Christians and is “evil.”

Trump slammed Carlson in an April 7 interview with the New York Post.

“Tucker’s a low IQ person that has absolutely no idea what’s going on,” Trump told the Post.

Carlson has criticized the Iran war from the start, along with other conservative commentators such as Megyn Kelly and MAGA figures such as Greene, who responded to Trump's Easter threat against Iran with a social media post saying "he has gone insane."

"This is not making America great again, this is evil," added Greene, who was one of Trump's closest allies in Congress before breaking with him and resigning from her seat.

Criticism on the right has grown as the conflict wears on. Joe Kent, Trump's former director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, resigned on March 17 in protest over the Iran war.

Johnson said he supported Trump’s decision to attack Iran but “we are not at war with the Iranian people. We’re trying to liberate them.”

Trump has left open the possibility of U.S. boots on the ground in Iran, prompting pushback from MAGA figures in recent weeks.

Former GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz, who Trump nominated to be attorney general before withdrawing his name amid opposition, told a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference that “a ground invasion of Iran will make our country poorer and less safe.”

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-South Carolina, said after a recent classified briefing on the war that she wouldn’t “support troops on the ground in Iran, even more so after this briefing.”

“I’m MAGA Mace,” the lawmaker, who is running for governor in South Carolina, said later on CNN, adding: “I support President Trump. I think he’s done an excellent job … but when we are talking about troops on the ground, that is a different stage … that has a significantly greater gravity.”

Polls show the Iran war is broadly unpopular, but most Republicans approve of how Trump is handling the conflict. A CNN survey released last week found that while just 33% of Americans approve of how Trump is handling Iran, 73% of Republicans approve.

Trump issued another dire warning about what could be coming for Iran in an April 7 social media post.

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," Trump wrote. "I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will."

Greene responded by invoking the 25th Amendment, which empowers the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the president is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office" and elevate the vice president to the job. She also again called Trump's comments "evil."

"We cannot kill an entire civilization," Greene wrote in a social media post. "This is evil and madness."