Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said President Trump’s MAGA slogan was a “lie,” saying his first year in office was focused on obliging wealthy supporters.
“I think people are realizing it was all a lie. It was a big lie for the people. What MAGA is really serving in this administration, who they’re serving, is their big donors,” Greene said in a Wednesday interview with radio personality Kim Iversen.
“The big big donors that donated all the money and continue to donate to the president’s PACs and donate to the 250th anniversary and are donating to the big ballroom,” she added.
The former Georgia representative recently resigned from Congress, after airing concerns over the future of health care premiums and the war in Gaza, citing fractures within the GOP and falling out with Trump and MAGA, despite years of loyal support.
On Wednesday, she said the people who truly benefit from backing Trump are financial benefactors, telling Iversen, “those are the people that get the special favors, they get the government contracts, they get the pardons or somebody they love or one of their friends gets a pardon.”
Since the start of the second Trump administration, the president has encouraged wealthy sponsors to provide private contributions for his political endeavors, including the construction of a White House ballroom and America’s 250th founding anniversary.
Greene criticized the favoritism for Trump’s endowed allies and also slammed the president for focusing on foreign policy rather than problems at home in her interview.
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“It’s the foreign countries. They are running the show here. It’s the major big corporations and what is best for the world. That’s really what MAGA is. We are seeing war on behalf of Israel, we are seeing the people in Gaza, innocent people in Gaza, hundreds of thousands of them completely murdered so that they can build some new real estate development. Money can pour in and everybody can get rich there in the new Gaza,” she told Iversen.
“And we’re seeing a whole plan play out, which is really a new world order. It’s a new way of doing business. And that’s the, it’s kind of like the Scooby-Doo meme where you know, they, they pull the mask off the bad guy,” Greene continued.
The former lawmaker alleged that the Make America Great Again movement “isn’t really about America or the American people.”
