Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) unloaded a heap of criticism Friday on latest actions and inactions by the Trump administration and fellow Republicans, mentioning the Ukraine minerals deal, talks with Iran, and extra — whereas being certain to not criticize President Trump personally.
“I represent the base and when I’m frustrated and upset over the direction of things, you better be clear, the base is not happy,” Greene mentioned Friday in a prolonged submit on the social platform X.
“I campaigned for no more foreign wars. And now we are supposedly on the verge of going to war with Iran,” Greene mentioned, in reference to ongoing talks with Iran over its nuclear program. A fourth spherical of talks that was slated to happen in Rome over the weekend has been postponed.
“I don’t think we should be bombing foreign countries on behalf of other foreign countries especially when they have their own nuclear weapons and massive military strength,” Greene mentioned.
She then turned to the minerals deal the U.S. signed with Ukraine this week, which might give the U.S. a share of Ukraine’s pure assets if the U.S. sends extra money to Ukraine because it fights off a Russian invasion. Greene argued that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “is a dictator who canceled elections” — which was as a result of warfare — and was “involved of the first impeachment of Trump.”
“Why on earth would we go over and occupy Ukraine and spend an untold amount of future American taxpayer dollars defending and mining their minerals as well as potentially putting American lives at risk and future war?” Greene mentioned. “Why don’t we just mine our own rare earth minerals that are tied up on federal lands that the government confiscated years ago?”
The submit from the firebrand Georgia congresswoman is placing provided that she has been one in all Trump’s most vocal and distinguished supporters.
Greene additionally lamented that the COVID-19 vaccine “still has FDA [Food and Drug Administration] approval” and puzzled if “those vicious attorneys and judges” who labored “against the American people in the last four years” could be “held accountable for the lives they ruined.”
She additionally took goal at Republicans in Congress, questioning when there could be a vote on budgetary recessions to codify actions by the Division of Authorities Effectivity and saying there may be sufficient “outrage and moral courage to dispose of this treason” by “rogue judges” blocking Trump actions.
“When you are losing MTG, you are losing the base. And Trump isn’t on the ballot in the future, so do the math on that,” Greene mentioned, implicitly dismissing the concept of Trump searching for a 3rd time period in 2028, which might require a constitutional modification.
