President Donald Trump, who publicly pressured Israel to bar Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from visiting the country, tweeted on Friday that the only "real winner" in Tlaib's declining her eventual approval to visit the country was her grandmother, who Trump said "doesn't have to see her now."

Tlaib, a freshman congresswoman representing Michigan, declined Israel's offer of a humanitarian visit to see her elderly grandmother in the West Bank after she and Omar were initially barred from visiting the country.

Tlaib's grandmother reacted to Trump's tweet on Saturday, telling Reuters from her garden in the Palestinian village of Beit Ur Al-Fauqa: "Trump tells me I should be happy Rashida is not coming. May God ruin him."

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After Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan was barred from entering Israel and then attacked by President Donald Trump on Twitter, her 90-year-old grandmother living in the West Bank, Muftia Tlaib, had some choice words for the US president.

"Trump tells me I should be happy Rashida is not coming," the elder Tlaib told Reuters, from her garden in the Palestinian village of Beit Ur Al-Fauqa. "May God ruin him."

The latest turn in an unprecedented conflict involving the US president, the country of Israel, and two US congresswomen, Tlaib's grandmother's seething words came after Trump's Twitter tantrum and Tlaib's refusal to accept the terms of a humanitarian visit to see her Palestinian family.

Trump on Thursday publicly urged Israel to block visits from Tlaib, of Michigan, and Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. The country then officially barred the two freshman congresswomen, who have opposed Israel's treatment of Palestinians.

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In his official reasoning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the congresswomen's itineraries "clarified that they planned a visit whose sole purpose was to support boycotts and deny Israel's legitimacy."

Initially, Tlaib wrote a letter asking to be let in to see her elderly grandmother despite the ban, saying she would not boycott Israel during her visit. Her request was approved by Israel's interior minister, but Tlaib then walked back her visit on Twitter, citing what she described as the country's "oppressive conditions."

On Friday, Trump then tweeted: "Israel was very respectful & nice to Rep. Rashida Tlaib, allowing her permission to visit her 'grandmother.' As soon as she was granted permission, she grandstanded & loudly proclaimed she would not visit Israel. Could this possibly have been a setup? Israel acted appropriately!"

He followed that tweet with another. "Rep. Tlaib wrote a letter to Israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grandmother," he said. "Permission was quickly granted, whereupon Tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down, a complete setup. The only real winner here is Tlaib's grandmother. She doesn't have to see her now!"

In her retort, Tlaib's grandmother told NBC News: "It's been a long time since I've seen her — five to six years. But sometimes I see her on TV and talk with her on the phone."

"Why didn't they allow her to come here?" Muftia asked reporters on Saturday. "I can't do anything. I'm really very sad. I hope, inshallah, that she will come back. I'm waiting for her."