Marjorie Taylor Greene is once again taking a torch to Donald Trump’s foreign policy, and it seems years of MAGA loyalty clearly weren’t enough to make her pull her punches, not when it comes to the United States involving itself in yet another pointless conflict in the Middle East.
Watching the outgoing Georgia congresswoman position herself in direct conflict with Trump is one of the strangest redemption arcs in recent memory. Marjorie was once one of MAGA’s most loyal attack dogs, spending her days spewing conspiracy theories on social media and championing far-right beliefs that made even some Republicans wince.
But it seems that the events of the past year—Trump’s strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, her unceremonious ouster from his inner circle, her impending exit from Congress—broke something in Marjorie, because now she’s all “America First” and not afraid to call out Trump for putting Israeli interests ahead of American ones.
The latest salvo comes courtesy of a Truth Social post in which Trump addressed the ongoing protests in Iran. ‘If Iran shots [sic] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go,” he wrote, essentially promising yet another military entanglement in a region that’s already seen plenty of American interventionism.
Marjorie, for her part, criticized Trump by sharing a clip of Israeli cybersecurity billionaire Shlomo Kramer calling for government regulation of social media, framing both as betrayals of the GOP’s core promises.
“An Israeli cybersecurity billionaire demanding to take away Americans’ guaranteed First Amendment Free Speech and President Trump threatening war and sending in troops to Iran is everything we voted against in ‘24,” Marjorie wrote, finally signalling to the world that her prefrontal cortex has entered the chat.
Greene isn’t alone in her criticism. Republican representative Thomas Massie similarly pushed back on Trump’s Iran threat, arguing the U.S. “shouldn’t be wasting military resources on another country’s internal affairs” and noting that military strikes require Congressional authorization. “This threat isn’t about freedom of speech in Iran; it’s about the dollar, oil, and Israel,” he added, per The Hill.
Greene is departing Congress on Monday after her falling out with Trump. Now that she’s already on her way out the door, the congresswoman has grown bold in criticizing the president’s policies, but with Trump consolidating power by the day, the entire saga reminds me of the old adage of “too little, too late.”
Published: Jan 3, 2026 07:46 am