Former GOP strategist Joseph Moreno called President Donald Trump’s hostile Thanksgiving rant “absolutely indefensible” during a Friday appearance on CNN’s “The Lead,” suggesting that the caustic messaging from the president and his administration is placing a growing burden on conservatives.

Guest host Boris Sanchez asked Moreno, “What happened to ‘Happy Thanksgiving?’” Trump certainly started his Thursday screed that way, before the insults started flying.

“Boris, you’re putting your finger, honestly, on what’s so difficult to be a conservative-leaning citizen, who my whole life has cherished vigorous but respectful debate,” said Moreno, a former federal prosecutor and lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves.

He continued, “And so when you see something like this, which is absolutely indefensible, and you’re sitting at the Thanksgiving table, and your family and friends say, ‘How can you possibly support an administration that comes out with messages like this?’ — it’s not easy.”

Trump shared a lengthy tirade on his Truth Social platform one day after two National Guard members were shot in Washington, D.C., where they were deployed to contain the purported “bedlam” of crime he claimed earlier this year required a federal presence.

One of the National Guard members died from her wounds on Thursday. The suspect was identified as an Afghan immigrant who had worked with the CIA and had legally entered the U.S. as part of a resettlement program under the Biden administration.

Trump announced in his post that he will “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries,” called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) “seriously retarded” and baselessly claimed that Somalia-born Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) “probably came into the U.S.A. illegally.”

Walz has since responded to the post with a dig at Trump’s recent claims about his health.

Trump also called Omar’s birth country “decadent, backward, and crime ridden” and said she’s “always wrapped in her swaddling hijab,” further insulting her Muslim faith. Moreno on Friday decried the “name-calling, back-and-forth process” of our current political landscape.

He then pondered whether the country would be better off under Biden or Harris.

“And you have to take the big picture view,” Moreno told Sanchez. “Do you think that we’re better off as a country now than we would be under a Biden or Harris administration? And is it worth putting up with a president that puts out messaging like this?”

He concluded, “It’s a tough one, and I’m not gonna pretend I know the answer to that.”