DISCLAIMER: This article was first published on January 3, 2026
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is still a member of Congress for a few more days, after she announced last year that she would resign from her seat on January 5. But what she’s continued to do is criticize her former friend, President Donald Trump, most recently after Trump’s move Saturday to enter Venezuela and capture that country’s president, Nicolas Maduro.
Greene has traditionally opposed U.S. military adventurism abroad, and appeared under the impression that Trump shared that view. But the move to remove the leader of a foreign country has earned Trump another rebuke from the soon-to-be-former Congresswoman.
Rep. Greene weighed in in a lengthy X post, in which she ripped both the decision and the rationale behind it. She began by declaring that it’s Mexican cartels, and not anything related to Venezuela, that are responsible for bringing drugs into the United States.
I’ve served on the Homeland Security Committee for the past three years. I’m 100% for strong safe secure borders and stopping narco terrorists and cartels from trafficking deadly drugs and human trafficking into America.
Fentanyl is responsible for over 70% of U.S. drug…
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) January 3, 2026
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“If U.S. military action and regime change in Venezuela was really about saving American lives from deadly drugs then why hasn’t the Trump admin taken action against Mexican cartels?,” Greene said in the post. She added that fentanyl comes into the U.S. from countries that are not Venezuela.
She also criticized Trump for pardoning another Latin American leader for drug charges.
“And if prosecuting narco terrorists is a high priority then why did President Trump pardon the former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez who was convicted and sentenced for 45 years for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into America? Ironically cocaine is the same drug that Venezuela primarily traffics into the U.S.” Greene said.
Greene also accused Trump of going against what she sees as MAGA principles.
“Americans disgust with our own government’s never ending military aggression and support of foreign wars is justified because we are forced to pay for it and both parties, Republicans and Democrats, always keep the Washington military machine funded and going. This is what many in MAGA thought they voted to end,” the Congresswoman wrote. “Boy were we wrong.”
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