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Female tennis legend Martina Navratilova weighed in on the American-Israeli attacks against Iran on Saturday.
Navratilova, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, branded him a “psychopath” for the decision to attack Iran in a post on X.
“OMG… Trump is a psychopath – he totally doesn’t care how many people he is personally responsible for killing,” Navratilova wrote in response to a post by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, who criticized Trump for the strike.
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Navratilova also expressed support for the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a later post.
“That would be good news,” she wrote in response to an earlier news report that Khamenei may be dead.
Khamenei was confirmed dead on Saturday following an Israeli strike in Tehran after his compound was destroyed. Khamenei ruled the Islamic Republic for more than three decades, overseeing an era of fierce internal repression and confrontation with the United States and Israel.
Navratilova has previously joined a coalition of athletes, along with Riley Gaines, who in November signed a letter condemning Iranian regime for his death sentence on boxing champion Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani.
Still, Navratilova raised similar criticisms of Trump after the military attack on Venezuela and the capture of Nicolás Maduro in January.
“He is completely insane. Not to mention this is completely illegal,” Navratilova wrote on Jan. 4 of Trump after the Venezuelan strike. “Peace President my a–! Trump breaks more laws than all the 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 and resenting the restrictions on personal freedoms.
Navratilova has previously compared Trump to her home country’s authoritarian regime, including in the tennis legend’s pinned post on X.
“I lived in a totalitarian authoritarian country growing up and I will not vote for that now or ever,” she wrote in October 2024, referring to Trump.
Saturday’s attack on Iran led to a growing bipartisan push in Congress to rein in Trump’s war powers, with lawmakers in both parties demanding votes on resolutions aimed at limiting his authority to use military force in the region.
Members of both chambers had already planned to force votes before the first bombs fell on Saturday. Now they are doubling down on calls to limit the president’s military authority.
Late. Tim Kaine, D-Va., has repeatedly forced votes to curb Trump’s war powers abroad, and he nearly succeeded in halting further military action in Venezuela until Republicans blocked the effort earlier this year.
in the house, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., 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 single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their country,” the president wrote. “We hear that many of their IRGC, military and other security and police forces no longer want to fight and are looking for immunity from us. As I said last night, ‘Now they can get immunity, later they 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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“This process should begin soon because not only Khamenei’s death, but the country has been greatly destroyed in just one day, and even wiped out,” he wrote. “However, the heavy and precise bombing will continue, uninterrupted for the week or as long as necessary to achieve our goal of PEACE IN THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST AND, YES, THE WORLD!”
