"I don't know what happened to Marjorie. She's a nice woman, but I don't know what happened. She's lost her way, I think." Thus Donald Trump publicly acknowledges the growing distance between him and his now former loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia congresswoman, a staunch early MAGA supporter, whom the president now even accuses of "favoring the other side," meaning the Democrats.
"I think she's putting on some kind of show, but I'm surprised by her; when someone like her makes statements like these, it shows she doesn't know what she's doing," Trump added, commenting on the post in which the Republican criticized the president for hosting Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House, referring to the "persecutions" of Christians and other minorities since he took control of Syria last December.
"I haven't lost my way, I am 100% America First, only," the notoriously pugnacious Republican responded to Trump, speaking to the Washington Post. In her post, she stated that she would like to "see non-stop meetings at the White House on domestic policy and not on foreign policy with foreign leaders," criticizing Trump's excessive focus on foreign policy at the expense of solving Americans' problems. And at the top of the list of problems, Trump's former loyalist places the issue of the healthcare crisis, a central point on the Democrats' agenda during the shutdown.
According to Greene, Trump should "drag healthcare insurance executives to the White House and start formulating our Republican plan to save America from Obamacare and the tax credits that have caused healthcare insurance costs to skyrocket." For weeks, in fact, the congresswoman has criticized Republican leadership for leaving the political initiative on rising healthcare costs to the Democrats and for failing to provide an alternative healthcare system to Obamacare.
In the many television appearances of the popular, and picturesque given her origins as a follower of the QAnon sect, Republican, attacks on Speaker Mike Johnson and the Republican shutdown strategy have multiplied, and Greene has appeared to side with Democrats on both the issue of federal healthcare subsidies and the release of files on the Epstein case.
Not only that. Greene, who in recent days also declared that she no longer believes in the wild conspiracy theories of QAnon, expressed appreciation for Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House who recently announced her upcoming retirement from Congress. And while Trump was blasting "an evil and corrupt woman," Greene praised the 85-year-old Democratic colleague's "ability to get things done," hoping that Republicans "can get things done for their party, as Nancy Pelosi did for hers."
Without forgetting that last summer, Greene clearly distanced herself from Trump's policy on Gaza by writing in a long post that she "does not want to pay for a genocide of a foreign people for a foreign war in which I have nothing to do," referring to "the many innocent people and children who are not Hamas being killed" and the fact that "American taxpayers fund 3.8 billion dollars annually in military aid to Israel."
