Trump says GOP’s Taylor Greene, who accused Israel of ‘genocide,’ has ‘lost her way’

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump says that Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene has “lost her way” after her criticism that Trump needs to focus less on foreign policy and more on the home front.

Greene, a member of the House of Representatives from Georgia, has long been a reliable ally and fierce defender of Trump until recent weeks when she has taken positions at odds with the White House and her fellow Republicans.

On Monday, Greene said in a social media post that Trump was meeting with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, “a former Al Qaeda terrorist,” and that instead she would like to see “nonstop meetings at the WH on domestic policy not foreign policy and foreign country’s leaders.”

Greene’s increasingly vocal criticism has been noteworthy because most Republican lawmakers express deep loyalty to Trump to avoid drawing fire from him. Greene has largely tried to avoid criticizing Trump directly and says she still supports him.

Trump, asked about her criticism by reporters in the Oval Office, makes clear he’s aware of it.

“I don’t know what happened to Marjorie,” Trump says. “Nice woman, but I don’t know what happened. She’s lost her way, I think.”

As for her criticism of Trump’s focus on foreign policy, the president says he was working on problems abroad for a reason.

“I have to view the presidency as a worldwide situation, not locally. I mean, we could have a world that’s on fire, where wars come to our shores very easily,” Trump says.

Greene has called the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza a “genocide,” and has praised former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, for an “incredible career.” Trump has deemed Pelosi “evil.”