The grandmother of US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib wished “ruin” on US President Donald Trump.
“Trump tells me I should be happy Rashida is not coming, May God ruin him.” said Muftia Tlaib in an interview with Reuters released on Saturday morning.
The 90-year-old Palestinian grandmother comments arrive in response to a Trump’s tweet after he mocked her relationship with her granddaughter on Twitter.
On Friday, Trump tweeted:
“Rep. Tlaib wrote a letter to Israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grandmother. Permission was quickly granted, whereupon Tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down, a complete setup. The only real winner here is Tlaib’s grandmother. She doesn’t have to see her now!”
Israel said it will bar a planned visit by two US Muslim congresswomen shortly after Trump urged the country to do so over.
Tlaib became part of an international controversy when she and fellow first-term US lawmaker Ilhan Omar — together the first Muslim women to serve in Congress — were denied entry to Israel and the Palestinian territories on a congressional trip.
No sooner had Rashida Tlaib been sworn in as a member of the 116th US Congress last January, than the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, caught flak for her off-color cry to impeach Donald Trump.
Tlaib is 43, the eldest of 14 children born to Palestinian immigrants. A self-described “progressive warrior,” she grew up in modest means in Detroit, eventually becoming a social justice attorney.
A mother of two sons, she speaks with genuine affection for her relatives. But that belies a fiery voice which has often led her into controversy.