Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) called out Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) after she said in a speech Wednesday she agreed with President Donald Trump’s motive on tariffs.

“The ‘tariff hammer’ winds up hitting your own hand rather than the nail,” Polis posted Wednesday on X, along with a video of Whitmer’s speech. “Tariffs are bad outright because they lead to higher prices and destroy American manufacturing. Trade is inherently good because both parties emerge better off from a consensual transaction. While sanctions (Russia, Iran) can have a geopolitical national security role, it should always be considered eyes wide open that sanctions harm both ourself and others.”

In her “Build, America, Build” address Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Whitmer said she agrees with Trump on his “motivation behind the tariffs.”

“I understand the motivation behind the tariffs, and I can tell you here’s where President Trump and I do agree,” she said. “We do need to make more stuff in America — more cars and chips, more steel and ships. We do need fair trade.”

In the speech, she laid out her strategy for bringing more manufacturing to America.

“Let’s give more hard-working people a fair shot at a decent life,” she said. “And let’s usher in, as President Trump says, a ‘Golden Age’ of American manufacturing.”

But some were critical of Whitmer for her remarks. While she didn’t explicitly mention Whitmer, Michigan state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky (D) wrote Thursday on X, “There is no middle ground to be found with an administration that is wiping its ass with the constitution.”

Some other top Democrats told NBC News they thought Whitmer was “played” by Trump when she appeared in the Oval Office while Trump signed executive orders in front of the press, including one instructing federal agencies to probe former government officials who questioned Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election was stolen.

“She’s really done an excellent job,” Trump said about Whitmer, who was at the White House to speak to Trump privately about issues regarding Michigan, during the signings. “Very good person.”

A spokesperson for Whitmer told NBC News the governor was “surprised” she was brought into the Oval Office “without any notice of the subject matter.”

“Her presence is not an endorsement of the actions taken or statements made at that event,” a spokesperson said.

Whitmer later told reporters that she disagreed “with a lot of stuff that was said” in the Oval Office, but she stayed “because I needed to make the case for Michigan, and that’s my job.”