MTG tears into Trump over 'complete betrayal' of MAGA voters

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former Republican congresswoman, tore into President Donald Trump during a Monday CNN appearance, accusing him of a "complete betrayal" of his MAGA voters over his ongoing war with Iran.

Trump's joint military assault on Iran with Israel has entered its third week, and despite the president's claims that the operation is proceeding well and ahead of schedule, there remains no clear end in sight. Iran's retaliation by closing the Strait of Hormuz waterway has also caused gas prices in the U.S. to skyrocket, risking even more severe voter backlash in the midterms as voters continue to grapple with inflation.

Speaking with CNN's Pamela Brown on Monday, Greene, a one-time ally of President Donald Trump turned fierce critic, tore into the president, saying that the war in Iran would have been a foolish gamble for any president, let alone one who campaigned so heavily on avoiding costly overseas conflicts.

"It makes absolutely no sense, Pamela, going into midterm elections," Greene said. "Let's remove Donald Trump out of it. Let's just put any president in there. Why would an American president lead his political party into the midterms, waging a full-scale major war, completely unprovoked on Iran, on behalf of Israel? And that's the way most Americans see it. They see this is for Israel, not for America."

She continued: "Why would an American president do that, which is forcing gas prices to hike right here going into spring break, where families are going to be driving out of town, going into summer? Declaring and waging a major full-scale war that seems to have no end in sight. That is not de-escalating. It's escalating every single day. And it just doesn't make sense... I went to, I can't even tell you, countless rallies all over the country for President Trump, campaigning for him and Republicans, because we wanted to win. And we said on every single rally stage, no more foreign wars, no more regime change. It's time to put America first, and this is a complete betrayal of those campaign promises."

Greene added that the support for the war in her home state of Georgia is largely divided along generational lines. Older baby boomers, who "watch Fox News all day long," are supportive of the war, while younger generations — including Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z — "are completely against it."

She also agreed with the notion that the longer the conflict continues, the more it will hurt Vice President JD Vance's chances in 2028, despite his supposed opposition to the operation behind the scenes.

"I meant everything I said on the campaign trail in 2024," Greene added later. "The part that is disheartening to me is that it appears to not only myself, but many others, that President Trump did not mean it, and we are basing that on his actions and his decisions and the priorities that he has made important and first to him, which are a 100% departure of what we campaigned on in 2024... I'm America first. I'm conservative. I have a voting record to prove it, but I cannot support this president when he completely turns his back on MAGA and what he sold to the American people for so many years."