‘She’s Lost Her Way’: Trump Goes After Marjorie Taylor Greene — Accuses Her of Putting On ‘Some Kind of an Act’

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked President Donald Trump on Monday to weigh in on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) recent criticism that he focuses too much of his time on foreign countries, something she said is “not America first.”

“With the Syrian president earlier today, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is a big ally of yours, said that she would rather see you focus on non-stop domestic policy meetings here at the White House instead of non-stop foreign policy meetings. What’s your response to her saying that and also saying the grocery prices are up and not down, as you’ve said?” Collins asked.

“Yeah, so I don’t know what happened to Marjorie. She’s a nice woman, but I don’t know what happened. She’s lost her way, I think,” Trump replied, adding:

But I have to view the presidency as a worldwide situation, not locally. I mean, we could have a world that’s on fire where wars come to our shores very easily if you had a bad president. We had a horrible president, and we ended up with Russia-Ukraine and ended up with other disasters, too. Don’t forget, I put out eight wars—nine to come. I think I’ll get the other one taken care of, but I put out eight wars. And look at the damage that Russia-Ukraine has done to us as a country. I mean, we spent $350 billion.

We’re not spending any money anymore. Now they pay us through NATO. You know, I got NATO to go from 2 percent to 5 percent. Well, that’s very important. When you’re president, you really sort of have to watch over the world because you’re going to be dragged into it. Otherwise, you’re going to be dragged into a world war. I think if I weren’t president, first of all, that war would have never happened if I was president.

And if I weren’t president, that could have led to World War III. It won’t. It’s not going to anymore. But when I first got in, I said, “Wow, this situation could lead to World War III.” And I got NATO together. I got everybody together. But with all of that, I passed a great, big, beautiful bill, which is the biggest tax cuts in the history of our country.

“So when somebody like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who’s now catering to the other side—I don’t know what, you know, I guess she’s got some kind of an act going—but I’m surprised at her. But when somebody like Marjorie goes over and starts making statements like that, it shows she doesn’t know,” Trump added before going on a tangent about China.

Last week, Greene told CNN, “I also blame those who are advising him in the White House. You know, keeping him on nonstop tours around the world and nonstop meetings with foreign countries’ leaders is not America First. It’s just not.’

Watch the clip above via Fox News.

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