MAGA defector Marjorie Taylor Greene as soon as once more questions Trump’s agenda: ‘Can we just do America?’ | EUROtoday

Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has not too long ago damaged with Donald Trump’s MAGA motion, has as soon as once more taken the president to job for forgetting his “America First” dedication to his supporters.

The populist, 51, took to X Sunday to complain about Trump’s ongoing overseas coverage focus, which noticed him host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida to debate a possible 20-point peace plan with Russia, which each males emerged from in a optimistic temper.

On Monday, Trump is because of host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Palm Beach to debate Israel’s regional considerations, the sixth in-person assembly between the 2 leaders in 2025.

“Zelensky today. Netanyahu tomorrow,” Greene sighed on X. “Can we just do America?”

The former MAGA cheerleader has shortly misplaced endurance with Trump in his first yr again in energy, taking difficulty along with his dealing with of a number of key points and with Republicans on Capitol Hill’s expectations of blind loyalty.

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She has been particularly vocal in her criticism of his worldwide outlook, as soon as referring to Zelensky as “a dictator who canceled elections,” making no allowances for the complexity of holding a democratic vote in a stay warzone, and accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.

Greene has additionally hit out at Trump on a variety of different points, from healthcare to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, and has introduced that she is going to resign from the House of Representatives in January.

The president himself was initially baffled by Greene’s change of tone however has since come out swinging, repeatedly attacking her on Truth Social, calling her “Marjorie Traitor Brown.”

In an interview with Lesley Stahl on CBS News’ 60 Minutes earlier this month, the congresswoman accused the president of “directly fueling” loss of life threats in opposition to her household with the inflammatory nickname.

“After President Trump called me a traitor, I got a pipe bomb threat on my house,” Greene instructed Stahl. “And then I got several direct death threats on my son… The subject line for the direct death threats against my son was his words – Marjorie Traitor Greene. Those are death threats directly fueled by President Trump.”

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She additionally claimed that a few of her fellow Republicans had made enjoyable of Trump behind his again and solely pivoted in the direction of supporting him after he gained the Republican presidential nomination in spring 2024.

Her look on the present triggered Trump to rage on social media: “The only reason Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown (Green turns Brown under stress!) went BAD is that she was JILTED by the President of the United States (Certainly not the first time she has been jilted!).

“Too much work, not enough time, and her ideas are, NOW, really BAD – She sort of reminds me of a Rotten Apple! Marjorie is not AMERICA FIRST or MAGA, because nobody could have changed her views so fast, and her new views are those of a very dumb person.”

Undeterred, Greene has stored up her assaults, calling the president’s unkind remarks concerning the murdered film director Rob Reiner “classless” and “just wrong” and suggesting that “only evil people” would defend Epstein’s accomplices by withholding details about his crimes.

The president has not been accused of any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein however has confronted persistent stress to launch the entire Department of Justice’s information on the late pedophile, which it was lastly compelled to do that month by act of Congress – and to elucidate their previous friendship, which he says ended with an argument in 2004.