Rep. Rashida Tlaib came out swinging Saturday, saying President Trump was afraid of her and other members of “the squad.”

“It’s been very clear to me, especially this last week, that he’s scared of us,” Tlaib told the Guardian in her first interview since declining Israel’s invitation to visit her grandmother on humanitarian grounds.

“He’s afraid of women of color … because we’re not afraid of him and we’re not afraid to speak up and say that we have a white supremacist in the White House who has a hate agenda,” Tlaib said.

The president uses attacks on the squad to distract from his failed policies, Tlaib told the newspaper.

“What he’s doing by choosing us four as his target is trying to distract folks from the fact that more people are living in poverty than ever, because he has failed as a president,” she said.

Since being elected, Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have become some of President Trump’s most ferocious critics in Congress. He has returned the favor by labeling them “the new face of the Democrat [sic] party.”