Irritated Democrats are having an “I-told-you-so” moment against the so-called Uncommitted Movement, comprised of Arab Americans and a progressive faction who opposed Harris in critical Trump-won states such as Michigan.

“I think anyone who trusted Trump to be a new and different actor on the Middle East was probably just not listening closely enough,” Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) told the Washington Examiner.

Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), the former chairman of Senate Democrats’ campaign arm who is not seeking reelection next year, said Trump’s desire to plant the American flag in the war-torn Middle East territory is a reminder that “elections definitely do have consequences.”

“I think we all knew where Trump was on that issue,” Peters said. “It’s no surprise what we’re seeing from Trump because that’s what we talked about throughout the campaign.”

Speaking at the White House during a press conference Tuesday night with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump envisioned relocating Gaza’s nearly 2 million Palestinian residents and reconstructing the seaside enclave into the “Riviera of the Middle East” while not ruling out using U.S. troops to make it happen in the Hamas-controlled area.

“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said. “We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area, do a real job, do something different.”

The suggestion unleashed fresh furry from Democrats toward supporters of the Uncommitted Movement and its leaders, including Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). The movement began as a boycott of former President Joe Biden during the Democratic primary but stuck through the general election in an effort to force Harris to distance herself from Biden’s support of Israel.

Claude Taylor, chairman of the Democratic Mad Dog PAC and former Clinton White House staffer, urged people to call Tlaib’s office and “tell her she’s a f***ing idiot.”

The group formerly known as Arab Americans for Trump quickly rebranded itself in the wake of Trump’s comments to Arab Americans for Peace.

“Anybody who thought when they voted for Donald Trump that they were getting someone oriented towards peace and against an American empire is getting a rude awakening,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI). “This guy wants to establish a United States colony in the Middle East.”

The Arab-majority city of Dearborn, Michigan, home to the largest Arab American population in the U.S., was a stronghold for the Uncommitted Movement and supported by Mayor Abdullah Hammoud. In November, the city’s voters elected Democratic candidates up and down the ticket, including Tlaib, but swung for Trump at the top.

Hammoud said his “commitment to justice remains unshaken, no matter who sits in the White House” and described Trump’s vision as a “proposal to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza.”

Tlaib, Hammoud, and others associated with the Uncommitted Movement deflected blame. Several of them, including Tlaib and Uncommitted Movement co-founder Abbas Alawieh, pointed their fingers at both political parties.

“Palestinians aren’t going anywhere,” Tlaib wrote in an X post. “This president can only spew this fanatical bulls**t because of bipartisan support in Congress for funding genocide and ethnic cleansing. It’s time for my two-state solution colleagues to speak up.”

Alawieh, a Michigan delegate to last year’s Democratic National Convention, said in a series of posts that Democratic and Republican presidential administrations “alike have illegally supplied the funding and bombs that led us here, and voters are fed up.”

House Democratic leaders are fresh off unveiling a multi-point strategy to combat Trump’s agenda and unite the party, leaving no willingness to dive into the politically perilous subject of Gaza during a closed-door caucus meeting Wednesday.

“We’re focused on the future here,” said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar (D-CA). “Our job is to build a big coalition that meets the needs of the American public.”

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), a leadership member, also deflected on the apparent frustration among Democrats toward the Uncommitted Movement.

“We don’t have time to do the blame again,” McGovern told the Washington Examiner. “We have to make sure that we win enough votes to change the reality here in the midterms. It is what it is.”

Instead, he and other Democrats raised the notion of Congress using legislation to try and prevent Trump from taking unilateral military action in acquiring Gaza.

Republicans, who hold the keys to both chambers, downplayed the likelihood of Trump’s proposal.

“The idea of Americans going in on the ground in Gaza is a non-starter for every senator,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a Trump confidant, told reporters following a Senate GOP meeting Wednesday with White House Middle East special envoy Steven Witkoff. “I would suggest we go back to what we’ve been trying to do: destroy Hamas and find a way for the Arab world to take over Gaza and the West Bank in a fashion that would lead to a Palestinian state that Israel could live with.”