President Donald Trump is trying to “gaslight” Americans about how he has not prioritized their needs, according to former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga).
“If you had put America FIRST from the start, instead of your rich donor class and foreign policy, you wouldn’t have to strategize on how to gaslight Americans,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from Congress in January, posted on X as President Trump prepared to deliver his State of the Union message.
Noting that Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research surveys found 61 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of foreign policy and another 56% claim he has “gone too far” in its military interventionism, Fortune Magazine reported that “the growing unease comes as Trump weighs whether to carry out new military action on Iran. He last week warned Iran that ‘bad things will happen’ soon if a deal is not reached over its nuclear program.”
Fortune also reported that “the administration appears flummoxed that Iran has not blinked to the mounting pressure,” quoting special envoy Steven Witkoff’s Fox News appearance in which he said Trump is “curious as to why they haven’t — I don’t want to use the word capitulated — but why they haven’t capitulated.”
Greene, who resigned due to her growing split with the Trump administration, said earlier this month that the administration “called me a traitor” because she “would not take my name off the discharge petition. Because I stood firmly and said: No, we are going to release the Epstein files….. I'm not standing with the government. I don't support the cover-up of all of this stuff, whatever it may be. And the president got mad at me.. And he told me his friends would be get hurt."
The ex-legislator has also said that Trump has no one but himself to blame for the Epstein scandal, pointing out earlier this month that “if you had not called the Epstein files a hoax and treated the Epstein survivors (rape and trafficking victims) like they didn’t exist and if you would release all the files and put your rich powerful friends in prison then Americans might actually listen to your ‘messaging.'”
She also claimed the president has not done enough to help her constituents.
“Approximately 75,000 households in my former district had their health insurance double or more on January 1st of this year because the ACA tax credits expired and Republicans have absolutely failed to fix our health insurance system that was destroyed by Obamacare,” Greene said.
The Georgian attributes Trump’s animosity to an incident in which the president believed Greene leaked that he would be eating at a Georgia seafood restaurant, Joe’s Seafood.
“Trump aides view the Joe’s Seafood debacle as a point of no return in his relationship with Greene,” Axios reported at the time. “Greene told Axios that any suggestion she revealed Trump’s dinner plans was ‘an absolute lie, a dangerous lie. I would never do that.'”
