GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia’s dissent from MAGA has seemingly been flying below President Donald Trump’s radar for months—however not anymore.
Since the queen of area lasers got here for Trump’s overseas coverage final week, Trump finally clapped again at Greene’s “revenge tour.”
“I don’t know what occurred to Marjorie. She’s a pleasant girl, however I don’t know what occurred. She’s misplaced her means, I believe,” Trump informed reporters Monday. “I assume she’s obtained some form of an act going, however I’m stunned at her. However when any person like Marjorie goes over and begins making statements like that, it reveals she doesn’t know.”
Greene responded to Trump’s remarks Tuesday, writing on X that she by no means strayed from her path.
“The one means is thru Jesus. That’s my means, and I’ve undoubtedly not misplaced it, really I’m working exhausting to place my religion into motion,” she wrote. “My job title is Consultant. That’s for Georgia’s 14th district and the American folks, nobody else. America First America Solely!!!”
And if you happen to ask Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Greene’s many MAGA callouts, like grocery costs and inflation, is payback for Trump telling her to not run for Senate.
“Right here’s some tea for you,” she stated final week in an Instagram video, which Greene has since denounced as “gossip.”
“Marjorie Taylor Greene needed to run for Senate in Georgia. She needed to run for Senate earlier this yr within the state of Georgia, she needed to be the Republican nominee for Senate. So, she was gearing up for that statewide race, and Trump informed her no,” Ocasio-Cortez stated.
Greene’s distance from MAGA appeared to start when Trump threw out the notion that the Epstein information had any substance, labeling them a “hoax.” And regardless of different MAGA supporters falling in line, Greene held robust.
“I stay steadfast and my perception is that each one of this info ought to be launched. Nobody ought to be protected. That’s fully unfair,” she stated.
Extra just lately, amid the longest authorities shutdown in U.S. historical past, Greene leaned additional to the left as Republicans sought to finish well being care subsidies that will elevate the price of well being take care of hundreds of Individuals.
However Greene isn’t simply breaking get together strains.
One principle suggests that she’s reaching disgruntled MAGA supporters who not really feel that Trump represents them. Equally, these hoping that Trump would observe via with releasing the Epstein information have been sorely upset. And Greene is driving that wave.
However whether or not Greene is trying to transfer up the political meals chain—regardless of her denial—or simply uninterested in who she calls “pathetic Republican males,” the entire ordeal is, if nothing else, entertaining.
