Tony got a light shove back and a pointed look. Steve wasn't the one Tony was mad at here, he'd better keep things in perspective.
"It was stupid, but it probably comes from a very misguided sense of love," he rationalized. Of course, Tony probably knew that, and maybe that was the issue. Dummy wasn't 'just a machine', not matter how often Tony claimed otherwise. Any one could see that, even Lehnsherr. And for the idiot to bring him, that showed he cared as well. Tony never did do well with declarations like that.