Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is blasting Donald Trump’s sudden pivot to sending powerful arms to Ukraine, hours after the president heralded a new plan to get European nations to front much of the tab.
‘I said it on every rally stage: ‘No more money to Ukraine. We want peace.’ We just want peace for those people,’ she said in extensive comments to the New York Times – in just the latest instance of the MAGA lawmaker calling out the administration’s foreign policy moves.
The says that sentiment drew applause on the campaign trail. ‘And guess what? People haven’t changed.’
Trump has been publicly chastising Russian President Vladimir Putin for days, and on Monday announced a new plan to send sophisticated weaponry to Kiev. At the same time, he promised to slap 100 percent ‘secondary sanctions’ on countries trading with Russia in 50 days if there weren’t a deal to stop the war.
‘We are very, very unhappy with [Russia], and we’re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days, tariffs at about 100 percent,’ Trump said Monday.
‘I’m disappointed in President Putin. I thought we would’ve had a deal two months ago,’ he went on about the proposed peace deal.
Greene, who told the Daily Mail last week she wants to make weather modification a felony offense, raised doubts about Trump’s claims that European nations would be picking up the full costs.
Trump has complained repeatedly about the cost of defending Ukraine born by U.S. taxpayers since Russia’s 2022 invasion, often inflating the amount by tens of billions.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is calling out the Trump administration’s surprise move to pushing a new policy to arm Ukraine with munitions paid for by European allies. It comes after she blasted the U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear facilities
‘Without a shadow of a doubt, our tax dollars are being used,’ Greene told the Times.
She also noted the U.S. is NATO’s top contributor, a form of indirect support. ‘And so it is U.S. involvement,’ she said.
Green also called the effort a departure from the focus on economic issues that helped Trump and Republicans get elected. ‘No one’s walking around thinking about Ukraine. No one’s walking around thinking about Russia. They’re just not,’ she said.
‘They walk around and all they think about is their bills, their problems and the road that may look like crap in front of their house — or they can’t buy a house.’
Her criticism comes weeks after she hammered Trump over the decision to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities.
She called it ‘turning back on campaign promises’ and warned that the United States is nearing a nuclear ‘World War III.’
Greene’s comments came amid Trump’s apparent U-turn on arming Ukraine and his growing frustration with Vladimir Putin
President Trump announced plans to send Ukraine additional Patriot missiles through NATO
The internal drama comes as the Financial Times reported that Trump had a fiery conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky July 4 where he encouraged the Ukrainian to strike deep inside Russian territory.
That came amid Trump’s fury at Putin’s repeated attacks on Russia’s neighbor despite a series of phone calls between the two men.
‘Volodymyr, can you hit Moscow? . . . Can you hit St Petersburg too?’ Trump asked his counterpart, according to the report.
Amid the divisions over foreign policy, Trump’s MAGA backers have been fuming over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
Former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon, who regularly hosts Greene on his ‘War Room Pandemic’ podcast, warned on his program Friday: ‘You’re going to lose 10 percent of the MAGA movement. If we lose 10 percent of the MAGA movement right now, we ain’t gonna … we’re gonna lose 40 seats in ’26.’ He added: ‘We’re going to lose the president.’
