Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) dismissed the notion that there is a divide between President Donald Trump and his MAGA base, a sentiment that was fueled by one her own recent statements.
On May 2, Greene wrote in a post to X that she represents Trump’s base and that “when I’m frustrated and upset over the direction of things, you better be clear, the base is not happy.” She then outlined a number of items that Trump, his Cabinet, or congressional Republicans have spearheaded in recent months, argued that they are not what the base voted for, and concluded, “when you are losing MTG, you are losing the base.”
During an interview on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast that aired on Monday, Greene was pressed on the interpretation that her post expressed concern that there was “a wedge coming between the base and President Trump.”
“Basically, it’s a complete lie,” Greene claimed. “There is no wedge between the base and President Trump.”
The congresswoman shifted blame to Congress, “establishment Republicans” who are failing to focus on the issues Trump campaigned on, and people close to Trump who are “lying” to him about what policies to pursue. The wedge is not between Trump and his base, but between GOP bureaucrats resisting the clearing out of the “old Republican Party’s ways” and the base, she suggested.
“The wedge is between Congress and the establishment Republicans that are undermining the President’s agenda, and also anyone that gets in the president’s ear and is lying to him about what he should be doing,” Greene told Bannon.
“You know, here’s the real issue: This country rose up in a historic way, something that we haven’t seen in our lifetime, and delivered a mandate, and that mandate was to the Republican Party,” she continued. “The mandate was President Trump’s agenda. The American people said, ‘No, we’re done with the old Republican Party ways. We are rejecting the Democrat Party’s policies. We are embracing Make America Great Again. MAGA, America first. MAHA. No more foreign wars.’”
“This whole populist movement supporting America and American workers and American companies and American interests and solving American problems, that’s what November 2024 was about, and Washington as usual is tone deaf and has not heard the message,” Greene concluded.
The Georgia Republican’s words came after her harsh words in her social media post for how Republicans are approaching issues such as Iran, Ukraine, the “rogue” judicial system, and COVID-19 vaccines. To whom her message was directed was vague, although her rebuttal on recent Ukraine policy was a direct reference to a deal Trump recently spearheaded.
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.
I campaigned for no more foreign wars.
And now we are supposedly on the verge of going to war with Iran.
I don’t think we should be bombing foreign…
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
(@RepMTG) May 2, 2025
“Now we are told that we have signed a deal for mineral rights in Ukraine, in order to pay us back for the hundreds of billions of dollars that we gave Ukraine and they used for money laundering, sold the weapons we gave them to our enemies, and their leader is a dictator who canceled elections, was involved of the first impeachment of Trump, and campaigned for Biden,” she complained.
“We are $36 trillion in debt today. So 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 questioned. “Why don’t we just mine our own rare earth minerals that are tied up on federal lands that the government confiscated years ago? “
Trump was instrumental in negotiating the minerals deal with Ukraine, which was announced at the end of April.
Republicans in Congress are not delivering on the mandate given to them by the American people!
There is no wedge between the American people and Pres Trump.
As usual, there is a wedge between the American people and establishment Republicans who are dragging their feet on… pic.twitter.com/ldhe3ehrMp
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
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“President Trump envisioned this partnership between the American people and the Ukrainian people to show both sides’ commitment to lasting peace and prosperity in Ukraine,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the time, adding that the deal “clearly” represented Trump’s desire for “a peace process centered on a free, sovereign, and prosperous” Ukraine.
“To be clear, no state or person who financed or supplied the Russian war machine will be allowed to benefit from the reconstruction of Ukraine,” Bessent continued.