Washington’s political class didn’t waste a second lighting up social media after President Donald Trump announced that Iran’s longtime strongman, Ali Khamenei, was dead following joint U.S.–Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic.

And what followed was less a debate and more a digital demolition derby.

South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace set the tone. Sharing a Fox News graphic that declared, “Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Confirmed Dead,” Mace added a jab that sent the left into a frenzy.

“My heart goes out to Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib tonight. Sending them thoughts and prayers.”

Ouch!

Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar fired back with a personal swipe that had nothing to do with foreign policy. Instead, she revived rumors about Mace’s alleged drinking — rumors Mace has repeatedly rejected.

“I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice,” Omar shot back. “Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us.”

For the record, neither Omar nor Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib is Iranian. Omar was born in Somalia and became a U.S. citizen in 2000. Tlaib was born in Detroit to Palestinian immigrant parents.

But Omar wasn’t finished. In a follow-up dripping with condescension, she added:

“Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,” invoking Ramadan for good measure.

Mace wasn’t about to let that stand.

Addressing the alcohol insinuations head-on, she wrote:

“I have a lifelong condition called hemochromatosis, a genetic disease where my body absorbs too much iron. I can only get rid of iron by bleeding it out. So I have a lot of phlebotomies. Any and all alcohol makes it worse. Mystery solved. Nancy Mace isn’t an alcoholic. Nor do I ‘imbibe.’”

Then came the rhetorical haymaker.

“So tell me, what was it like being married to your brother?”

The barb referenced long-circulating allegations — which Omar has denied — that she once married her own brother in what critics claimed was an immigration scheme. Those claims have never been substantiated, but they’ve persisted in conservative circles for years.

Mace didn’t stop there. In another post, she labeled Omar a “terrorist lover,” a charge sure to further inflame an already combustible exchange.