Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Sunday criticized “fake” supporters of President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement who want to see U.S. involvement in Israel’s war with Iran.
“Everyone is finding out who are real America First/MAGA and who were fake and just said it (because) it was popular,” Greene wrote in a 355-word post on the social media platform X. “Unfortunately the list of fakes are becoming quite long and exposed themselves quickly.”
“Anyone slobbering for the U.S. to become fully involved in the Israel/Iran war is not America First/MAGA,” she added.
Greene’s post highlights a split in MAGA world over the Iran-Israel conflict and on foreign policy more generally between those who want to offer aggressive support for Israel and back an assertive national security policy in general, and those concerned that could draw the U.S. into a larger war.
Greene’s message was posted after ABC News reported that Trump told the outlet “it’s possible” the U.S. will get involved in the escalating conflict between Iran and Israel.
“We’re not involved in it. It’s possible we could get involved. But we are not at this moment involved,” Trump told ABC News.
Iran fired another wave of missile attacks on Israel early Monday, killing at least five people. Israel, meanwhile, claimed it has taken out Iranian defense systems and secured the ability to safely fly over Tehran, continuing the two countries’ military conflict that began Thursday with Israel’s targeted strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The conflict has essentially upended the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to hash out a new nuclear deal with Iranian leaders.
Trump has continued to urge Iran to come back to the table to negotiate an agreement.
Greene wrote that voters who elected Trump want peace, and any U.S. involvement would harm Americans more than it is worth.
“Real America First/MAGA wants world peace for all people and doesn’t want our military killed and forever injured physically and mentally,” she wrote on X. “We love our U.S. military and love them helping to secure our borders and our cities for the defense of OUR PEOPLE AND OUR COUNTRY.”
She also stressed that her position is “not antisemitic,” which she has faced backlash for in the past after promoting conspiracy theories about Jewish people and causes.
“We are $36+ TRILLION in debt and have mountains of our own problems,” she wrote Sunday. “We have giant planks sticking out of our own eyes while we complain about splinters in other’s eyes.”
Greene followed with another post about an hour later that clocked in at over 100 words defending “fair critical thinking and honest dialogue,” along with a table of Iran nuclear capabilities projections over the years.
“They’ve been telling us for decades Iran was ‘only a few years’ or ‘only a few months’ and ‘only a few days,'” she wrote. “However, the truth is more countries than is public have some sort of nuclear capabilities.”
“It’s not antisemitic to ask these questions,” she added.
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