Marjorie Taylor Greene's Anger Toward 'Nasty People' Doubting Her Support For Trump Says A Lot

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is furious that anyone would doubt her wholehearted support for President Donald Trump — and it seems like she wants to make that extremely clear.

On Monday, the Georgia Republican accused the media and “other nasty people” of creating “dirty rumors” that there’s been a split between her and Trump due to her repeatedly slamming the president in public over his decision to insert the U.S. into Israel’s war by striking Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend.

“WRONG,” she wrote on X, formerly Twitter. She illustrated her sincerity about her support for Trump by adding a heart emoji between her and Trump’s initials.

To further emphasize her support, Greene shared a video on X that showed her blasting a reporter over the phone for asking about her “willingness to break” with the president on certain issues. The representative did not like that.

“I have always been President Trump’s most outspoken ally ... nothing has changed now,” she said on the call, before adding, “There is no break. There is no split. There is no lack of support from me to President Trump. So this would be a narrative or a lie that you’re creating, or that someone is asking you to create, and I will not tolerate it one single bit.”

“This is America where we’re allowed to have differing opinions,” she said later in the conversation, adding that the “administration is doing a great job.” She then told the reporter that their “narrative” was “complete and total bullshit” before abruptly ending the call.

But before Greene unleashed a series of statements slamming those who she felt questioned her support for Trump, she spent days sharply criticizing the president’s decision to bomb three nuclear sites in Iran.

“Every time America is on the verge of greatness, we get involved in another foreign war,” the representative wrote on X on Saturday, the same day the U.S. carried out the military strike, which Trump approved without congressional approval.

The following day, she posted a lengthy statement on the app that began with: “My thoughts on bombing Iran.”

“America is $37 TRILLION in debt and all of these foreign wars have cost Americans TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS of dollars that never benefited any American, ” she wrote, in part. She insisted that her comments did not reflect “disloyalty” to Trump, but that “critical thinking and having my own opinions is the most American thing ever.”

And on Monday morning, hours before she accused people of spreading “dirty rumors” about her splitting from Trump, she said on X that the president had retreated from some of his MAGA “key promises.”

“Only 6 months in and we are back into foreign wars, regime change, and world war 3,” she wrote. “It feels like a complete bait and switch to please the neocons, warmongers, military industrial complex contracts, and neocon tv personalities that MAGA hates and who were NEVER TRUMPERS!”

Greene concluded the statement by emphasizing that Trump is “not a king” and that “MAGA is not a cult.”

“I can and DO have my own opinion,” she wrote.

So when Greene seemed to display an apparent shift in tone by emphasizing her support for Trump hours later on X on Monday, someMAGAsupporters on the app weren’t buying it.

Collin Anderson, a clinical assistant professor in the department of political science at the University at Buffalo, told HuffPost that he would consider Greene’s more recent posts (the ones shutting down questions about her split with Trump) as “a reversal in tone, though not necessarily out of character.”

“Another conflict in the Middle East is a widely unpopular policy at the moment, even among Trump’s base, and Greene’s base most likely holds similar opinions,” he said. “She’s had moments in the past where she has been critical of Trump or other Republicans, but almost always backpedals on it when pressure is put on.”

In the end, going after Trump is simply “unpopular” in the Republican base, Anderson said. 

Anderson said that Greene’s shift from being critical to supportive comes down to this: “As unpopular as a Middle East war is, going against Trump is more unpopular with the Republican base.”

And it says a lot about the current state of the Republican Party and GOP lawmakers, who have long faced criticism for showing unwavering loyalty to Trump — even when their policies don’t align with the president’s positions.

“From a purely popularity decision basis, it makes more sense for her to side with Trump. Any Republican that has taken a stand against Trump quickly finds themselves run out,” Anderson said.

“[Greene’s] efforts to get back in MAGA’s good graces after criticizing the decision to attack Iran is what we would expect from someone who realizes they stepped out of line and is worried about reprisal,” he later added.

Matt Dallek, a political historian and professor at The Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University, said it’s true that Greene has been one of Trump’s “most vocal and aggressive defenders for many years now.”

But he told HuffPost that he thinks Trump will likely see some “fractures” from his base during his second term as president.

“Trump 2.0 ... will continue to cause some fractures within the Republican Party and within the MAGA movement, because now that he’s in power, it’s not necessarily easy for him to keep the pledges he made, or to hold all the members of the coalition together,” he said. “Some of the actions he’s taking and some of the policies he’s supporting, I think are almost inevitably going to split his movement.”

“Whether that will become permanent rupture or not, remains to be seen,” he added.

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