Iran Press/ America: US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard was reacting to Donald Trump's tweet on Sunday that the US was "waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause" of the attacks "and under what terms we would proceed!"
Gabbard, who is vying for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 presidential election, tweeted later: "Trump awaits instructions from his Saudi masters. Having our country act as Saudi Arabia's b---- is not 'America First', Business Insider reported.
Gabbard has attacked Trump's relationship with Saudi Arabia before, using a similar insult in November. Her policy platform includes ending the US's alliance with Saudi Arabia.
Many national-security experts also shared Gabbard's criticism.
Ben Rhodes, who was President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, tweeted on Sunday: "Just the President saying he will do whatever the Saudis want, including potentially going to war on their behalf."
Tamara Cofman Wittes, a senior fellow at Brookings Institution's Center for Middle East Policy, also said that Trump's tweet suggested that "we are now subcontracting our national security policy to the crown prince of Saudi Arabia," referring to the de facto ruler of the kingdom, Mohammed bin Salman.
President Donald Trump (right) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (left) at a White House meeting, March 2017
The historian and Princeton University professor Kevin M. Kruse tweeted sarcastically: "As everyone knows, Article I of the US Constitution clearly states that the power to declare war is vested with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia."
Trump has long touted his relationship with Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed despite the crown prince's links to the murder of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Jamal Khashoggi, a known critic of the Saudi regime, was killed in the Saudi consulate in Turkey on 2 October 2018, while trying to obtain marriage papers.
Both the CIA and the United Nations have concluded that the Crown Prince either ordered the murder or was aware of it before it took place.
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