Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), once a staunch supporter of President Trump’s MAGA agenda, now suggested she no longer associates herself with that label.
“Are you MAGA?” anchor Lesley Stahl asked Greene in an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which aired on Sunday.
“I’m America first,” Greene replied.
Stahl pressed: “And that’s not the same as MAGA?”
“MAGA is President Trump’s phrase. That’s his, his political policies,” Greene said, referring to the “Make America Great Again” slogan that propelled the president’s 2016 campaign to victory.
“I call myself America first,” Greene continued, describing the ideological outlook that the president has long embraced.
“But you’re, you’re not saying you’re MAGA. That’s over,” Stahl asked.
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Greene shook her head no, saying, “I’m America first. Yep.”
The interview comes amid a public split between Greene and the president, who repeatedly attacked Greene after she spoke out against his position on releasing documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump eventually reversed his position, backing the public release of files, but continued to call Greene a traitor. Greene shocked the political world when she announced last month that she would resign from Congress on Jan. 5.
Greene, in the interview, called into question whether Trump truly embraces an “America first” agenda anymore. She noted that the president labeled her a traitor around the same time he was entertaining controversial figures in the Oval Office.
“He did this in the same time span where President Trump brought in the al Qaeda leader that was wanted by the U.S. government, who is now the president of Syria. Then within a week, he brought in the Crown Prince, MBS, who murdered an American journalist. And then he brought in the newly elected Democrat Socialist mayor of New York,” she said. “That was the time span that he called me a traitor.”
She suggested the president focuses too much on his international agenda and isn’t prioritizing the needs of Americans.
“For an America First president, the number one focus should have been domestic policy, and it wasn’t. And so, of course I was critical because those were my campaign promises. Once we fix everything here, then, fine, we’ll talk to the rest of the world,” she said.
