GOP’s Taylor Greene says Trump no longer ‘America First,’ accuses him of serving Israeli interests

In a “60 Minutes” interview, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene casts her dramatic break with US President Donald Trump as a clash over the meaning of “America First,” accusing the president of drifting toward establishment priorities and foreign entanglements — including, she says, placing Israel’s interests ahead of US domestic needs.

“For an America First president, the number one focus should have been domestic policy, and it wasn’t,” Greene tells CBS journalist Lesley Stahl. “Once we fix everything here, then, fine, we’ll talk to the rest of the world.”

She argues that Trump “has served Israel’s interest, even attacking Iran,” lumping that together with what she called his service to “Big Pharma,” and “crypto donors.”

Her criticism of Trump’s alignment with pro-Israel groups was blunt, too. Asked why she opposed the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which directs the Department of Education to use the IHRA working definition of antisemitism when investigating discrimination cases on college campuses, Greene says that she has condemned antisemitism in the past.

“Since I’ve been a member of Congress, we’ve had several resolutions that constantly denounce antisemitism. I’ve already voted denouncing antisemitism many times before,” she explains. “It becomes an exercise that they force on Congress, and I simply got tired of it,” a remark that appears to nod toward pro-Israel lobbying pressure.

“Most members of Congress take donations from AIPAC, and I don’t,” she adds, referring to the prominent American pro-Israel lobbying group.