Marjorie Taylor Greene Rails Against Direction of Trump Administration on Steve Bannon’s War Room: ‘You Can’t Manipulate the Base’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) railed against the direction of the Trump administration on Steve Bannon’s War Room program Monday, warning that there are people “in the president’s ear” who are “lying to him.”
Greene’s comments came after Bannon observed that there’s an emerging narrative about “a wedge coming between the base and President Trump” before making note of a tweet from last week in which the MAGA congresswoman raged that while she “campaigned for no more foreign wars,” the U.S. is now “on the verge of going to war with Iran.”
“I represent the base and when I’m frustrated and upset over the direction of things, you better be clear, the base is not happy,” wrote Greene in her post.
She expanded upon that thought on Monday.
“Right, It’s a lie. There is no wedge between the base and President Trump. The wedge is between Congress, and the establishment Republicans that are undermining the president’s agenda,” Greene told Bannon before continuing:
Also, anyone that gets in the president ear and is lying to him about what he should be doing, you know. Here’s the real issue. This country rose up in a historic way, something that we haven’t seen in our lifetime, Steve, and delivered a mandate. And that mandate was to the Republican Party. The mandate was President Trump’s agenda. The American people said, “No, we’re done with the old Republican Party ways. We are rejecting the Democrat Party’s policies. We are embracing Make America Great Again, MAGA, America First, MAHA, no more foreign wars. This whole populist movement supporting America, and American workers, and American companies, and American interests, and solving American problems.” That’s what November 2024 was about. And Washington, as usual, is tone deaf and has not heard the message. What we saw is all these Republicans that rejected Trump, fought Trump in his first administration, you know. Networks, even like Fox News, that did not support the president, and didn’t support him in 202,1 and 2022, part of 2023, and didn’t support him until they realized they had to support him.
She went even further in expressing her displeasure later in the segment, even going so far as to emphasize that she got where she is without Trump’s help:
Well, here’s the issue. Never forget, I got here on my own with the people. I didn’t get elected with the president’s endorsement. I fought through a primary, and a runoff, and I won. And I won a general election — President Trump endorsed me then — but I already won the general election anyways. I would have won even without it. I’m here because I genuinely believe and I’m fighting for what I believe in. And what I belief in is what most Americans believe in. So when I am-, when I am making a call to action, and it’s always early, I’m an early indicator, but when I’m making a call to action, people better pay attention. And here’s the issue, Steve, is they think they can manipulate the president, but you can’t manipulate the base. You can’t manipulate the base.
