Joy Behar Suggests Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Should Become a Democrat’ as MAGA Firebrand Rips GOP on The View
MAGA stalwart and U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) bristled on Tuesday as The View co-host Joy Behar suggested she become a Democrat after the lawmaker listed off some of her “America First” priorities.
It all started as Greene, making her first appearance on the show, was quizzed by Whoopi Goldberg about the millions of MAGA voters plagued by high grocery prices who had lost their SNAP benefits as a result of the ongoing government shutdown while the Trump administration spends $40 billion to bail out Argentina.
Greene initially appeared appalled at the notion, and insisted, “I’m not a Democrat.”
She then soberly admitted: “Both parties have failed.”
Behar also pressed Greene on her seemingly unbreakable fidelity to President Donald Trump, asking her, “He’s still your favorite president? He goes against everything you just said.”
“Look, I like Donald Trump,” Greene replied. “I fought for him to win.”
Read the full exchange here:
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I want to talk about MAGA voters who believed that the president made promises like lowering grocery prices on Day 1. Right now grocery prices and inflation is up, soybean and cattle farmers are on the verge of bankruptcy. Millions have lost their food stamps and are about to lose their healthcare while we’re watching $40 million — $40 billion — to bail out Argentina. What is going on?
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I don’t know. I am so America first. I just I feel like I live it and breathe it and that’s my district and that’s what people want. They are so tired of their hard earned tax dollars being sent overseas to foreign wars and foreign aid and foreign causes while life in America just becomes more and more unaffordable. We want this money invested at home for our infrastructure, for programs, for our people and most importantly for my children’s generation and their children and their children and generations to come. And I have to say that’s what I’ve campaigned on the entire time. Everybody is like Marjorie Taylor Greene has changed. Oh, no, nothing has changed about me. I am staying 100% true to the people that voted me and true to my district and I am so angry. When I drive around my district, all these beautiful rural small towns and there’s manufacturing plants that are crumbling from decades of lost industry, small businesses that got shuttered during Covid lockdowns and Covid shutdowns and you know what, I know something else, Whoopi, so many veterans that went over and had to fight in some war that really had nothing to do with where they were in or their hometown and their lives and families’ lives have been dough affected so for me I’m unapologetically America first and I’ll do anything I can to work hard to save this country.
JOY BEHAR: Maybe you should become a Democrat, Marjorie.
GREENE: I’m not a Democrat. [Applause] You want to know something. I say this, I think both parties have failed. Both parties have failed.
BEHAR: This is worse. This is worse. Sorry, you know that.
GREENE: No.
BEHAR: He’s still your favorite president? He goes against everything you just said.
GREENE: Look, I like Donald Trump. I fought for him to win. I’m thankful for the secure border and friends with Laken Riley’s mother and we saw over — I served on Homeland Security 12 million people came across our border, over 2 million gotaways. These are terrorists, cartel, all kinds of criminals. We don’t know where they are in the country and that affects all of us. That’s not a political party thing.
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