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Women’s tennis legend Martina Navratilova weighed in on the US and Israeli attacks on Iran on Saturday.
Navratilova, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, called him a “psychopath” for the decision to attack Iran in a post on X.
“OMG…Trump is a psychopath; he doesn’t give a damn how many people he is personally responsible for killing,” Navratilova wrote in response to a post by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green criticizing Trump for the attack.
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Navratilova also expressed support for the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a subsequent post.
“That would be good news,” he wrote in response to an earlier news report that Khamenei might be dead.
Khamenei was confirmed dead on Saturday following an Israeli attack on Tehran after his compound was reduced to rubble. Khamenei ruled the Islamic Republic for more than three decades and oversaw an era of harsh internal repression and confrontation with the United States and Israel.
Navratilova previously joined a coalition of athletes, along with Riley Gaines, and signed a letter in November condemning the iranian regime for the death sentence of boxing champion Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani.
Still, Navratilova leveled similar criticisms against Trump after the military attack on Venezuela and the capture of Nicolás Maduro in January.
“He is absolutely crazy. Not to mention this is completely illegal,” Navratilova wrote on January 4 about Trump after the attack on Venezuela. “Peace President, s–! Trump is breaking more laws than all previous presidents combined. A serial criminal on so many different fronts!”
Navratilova has cited her background as a refugee who fled the former Czechoslovakia to escape a totalitarian communist government in her criticism of Trump. Navratilova has said she left her homeland in 1975, citing her experience under Soviet rule, resenting limitations on personal freedoms.
Navratilova has compared Trump to her home country’s authoritarian government in the past, including in the tennis legend’s post pinned to X.
“I lived in a totalitarian authoritarian country growing up and I will not vote for that now or ever,” he wrote in October 2024, referring to Trump.
Saturday’s attacks on Iran sparked growing bipartisan pressure in Congress to curb Trump’s war powers, with lawmakers from both parties demanding votes on resolutions aimed at limiting his authority to use military force in the region.
Members of both chambers He had already planned to force the vote before the first bombs fell on Saturday. Now, they are redoubling their calls to restrict the president’s military authority.
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., has repeatedly forced votes to curb Trump’s foreign war powers, and came close to succeeding in halting further military action in Venezuela until Republicans blocked the effort earlier this year.
at home, Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., are preparing their own war powers resolution for a vote.
Massie said in a post on X that he opposed “this war. This is not ‘America First.'”
Trump has called on the people of Iran to “take control” of the country’s government.
“This is the greatest opportunity for the Iranian people to take back their country,” the president wrote. “We are hearing that many of your IRGC, military and other police and security forces no longer want to fight and are seeking our immunity. As I said last night, ‘Now you can have immunity, then you will only get death!'”
Trump said he hopes the IRGC and police will “peacefully merge” with Iranian patriots to stabilize the country.
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“That process should begin soon, since not only the death of Khamenei but the country has been, in just one day, greatly destroyed and even razed,” he wrote. “However, the intense and precise bombing will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or for as long as necessary to achieve our goal of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, TRULY, IN THE WORLD!”
