Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) went off on President Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina, calling it “probably one of the grossest things” she’s ever seen.
Greene joined Tucker Carlson on The Tucker Carlson Show Wednesday, holding nothing back as she criticized members of her own party, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) over the current government shutdown.
Greene claimed that Trump’s MAGA movement has been “hijacked” by Washington, D.C. insiders who are moving the president further and further away from his campaign promises. The congresswoman cited the Argentina bailout as an example of potential outside influence on the president.
She said:
Let’s take for example this $40 billion bailout for Argentina. That’s probably one of the grossest things I’ve ever seen and I have no idea who is telling our great president, our America First president that this is a good idea because honestly it’s a punch in the gut to all of our American cattle ranchers and they are furious and rightfully so, and at the same time I can’t think of another country that’s further away from the United States of America than Argentina. It’s literally at the bottom of South America in the southern hemisphere and we’re all the way up here at the top. I don’t know how that’s America First.
Trump’s bailout for Argentina, half of which is covered by private banks and the other half by the U.S. Treasury, is meant to stabilize the country’s struggling economy. The president defended the bailout when asked at the White House whether the move fits with his “America First” campaign promises.
“No, it’s really meant to help a good financial philosophy, where Argentina can, after 20 years of disaster — because it was very successful at one point, and it can be again, like Venezuela. Venezuela was very, very successful, and now it’s a dictatorship,” Trump said.
On Greene’s “cattle ranchers” point, Trump recently took to Truth Social to defend his controversial suggestion that the United States should purchase beef from Argentina, a move critics questioned especially as farmers struggle amid the president’s tariffs.
“The Cattle Ranchers, who I love, don’t understand that the only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades, is because I put Tariffs on cattle coming into the United States, including a 50% Tariff on Brazil,” Trump wrote. “If it weren’t for me, they would be doing just as they’ve done for the past 20 years — Terrible! It would be nice if they would understand that, but they also have to get their prices down, because the consumer is a very big factor in my thinking, also!”
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The congresswoman said:
But the problem, Tucker, is Washington, D.C. is unchangeable, absolutely unchangeable. And they have hijacked our movement and they’re taking it away from the campaign promises of America First and turning it into everything that we hate. We hate globalism, we hate bailing out foreign countries, we hate foreign wars, we hate industries overseas, we want industries supported here at home.
Watch above via The Tucker Carlson Show.