President Donald Trump has hit out at MAGA superstar Marjorie Taylor Greene, saying that his former close ally has “lost her way” after she broke ranks with Republicans on everything from cost-of-living pressures to the Epstein files.
The Georgia Congresswoman—who started her career as a QAnon conspiracy theorist with far-right ideals—has had a dramatic reversal in recent months, placing herself at odds with her party to such an extent that colleagues have accused her of “turning liberal.”
In some of her most recent comments, Greene has suggested that Trump should spend more time on his “America First” domestic policies and less time on international meetings.
She has also rejected his claim that grocery prices are going down, telling CNN last week: “I go to the grocery store by myself. Grocery prices remain high. Energy prices are high. My electricity bills are higher here in Washington, D.C., at my apartment, and they‘re also higher at my house in Rome, Georgia—higher than they were a year ago.”
Asked in the Oval Office for his response, Trump accused Greene of “catering to the other side.”
“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,” he said.
“I guess she’s got some kind of an act going, but I’m surprised at her,” the president added.
“But when somebody like Marjorie goes over and starts making statements like that, it shows she doesn’t know.”
Greene was elected to Congress in 2020, making headlines for her incendiary views and her promotion of conspiracy theories.
Among them were allegations of government involvement in mass shootings, suggestions that 9/11 was a hoax, and the Pizzagate conspiracy, which falsely claimed that prominent Democratic Party officials were running a child sex-trafficking ring out of the basement of a DC pizzeria.