Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, said she chewed out her uncle Mitt Romney the same way she would treat other freshman senators criticizing President Trump.

“I love my uncle. My tweet yesterday had nothing to do with family,” she said in an interview Thursday on “Fox & Friends.”

“I would have done this to any freshman incoming senator, and I would have said ‘hey, let’s focus on the real issues here which are the Democrats … and let’s remind Americans about the good things that have come out of the Trump administration,'” McDaniel continued.

Romney, the incoming Republican senator from Utah, wrote a scathing opinion piece in the Washington Post that said Trump “has not risen to the mantle of the office.”

Romney gave his niece advance notice of the op-ed, and McDaniel said she gave Trump a heads-up that it would be published Tuesday evening.

“I think, you know, my uncle Mitt doesn’t want to put me in a bad position at all,” McDaniel said.

In a tweet early Wednesday, she called out her uncle, saying: “For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack @realdonaldtrump as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unproductive.”

McDaniel said she was acting in her capacity as RNC chairwoman.

“But the reality is I acted as party chair, he’s going to act as senator, and I’m going to say to anybody in our party, our voters want you to support our president,” she said.