Trump’s DNI Gabbard Absolutely Torched by Right Over Bizarre Nuclear Video: ‘She Obviously Needs to Change Her Meds’
UNITED STATES – JANUARY 30: Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, testifies during her Senate Select Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building on Thursday, January 30, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard received a wave of backlash from fellow Republicans for her bizarre video warning of a “nuclear holocaust.”
The video was posted online Monday. In it, Gabbard accused “political elites” and “warmongers” of “fomenting” conflict between global nuclear powers. She added that the world was “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before” and that these supposed political elites have shelters to protect themselves from such a disaster.
Those comments did not go over well within the Republican Party. According to a report from Jewish Insider, multiple congressmen have already spoken out against Tulsi:
“She obviously needs to change her meds,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) told Jewish Insider of Gabbard. Kennedy, like all Republicans except Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), voted to confirm Gabbard in February.
“I only saw a post that she did, which I thought was a very strange one since many people believe that, unfortunate though it was, the nuclear bomb that was dropped in World War II at Hiroshima actually saved a lot of lives, a lot of American lives,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) told JI of Gabbard’s video.
Another anonymous Republican didn’t “understand why the DNI would even need to make that point.”
“I don’t seek nuclear war,” they said. “I don’t know anyone who wants nuclear war. There’s plenty of ideological diversity here, but pretty much universal opposition to that.”
Conservative media figures also made their displeasure known.
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