Let’s skip, for the nonce, the fact that it is disturbing that we have a President who issues statements that read like the have been written by a character out of “Mean Girls.” (We knew that.) And that he never should have endorsed an unqualified, not-to-bright, emotionally unstable zealot like Georgia Rep Marjorie Taylor-Greene in the first place. Or that he should have jettisoned his ill-considered support for Greene many times earlier, when she emitted one of her many earth-shatteringly stupid remarks even by Trump standards.

What matters is that he has finally condemned her, she deserves to be condemned, she needs not to be in a position of power or influence because she is a human “loose cannon on deck” that cannot be trusted, and any words or action that bring us closer to seeing her out of elected office is manifestly to be applauded, regardless of the motivations behind it.

Greene is a dumb version of Tucker Carlson. She seeks publicity and controversy above principle. There is nothing wrong with a GOP House member criticizing this Republican President if it can be done with clarity and respect without deliberately seeking to give ammunition to his extreme foes. Senator Fetterman is an excellent role model in how one can be a loyal partisan and still speak up when your party or President seems wrong or misguided. Greene’s going to “The View” to bash Trump on a venue that only bashes him was justification for Trump cutting ties with her all by itself. So was her head-exploding appearance with Bill Maher earlier this month, in which she said that what some thought were space aliens could be “fallen angels” and she attempted to explain her 2018 social media post theorizing that wildfires California wildfires had been started by laser beams from space as part of a conspiracy launched by the Rothschild family by admitting she was ignorant. (Greene said she didn’t know then that the Rothschilds were Jewish.

[I can’t believe I just wrote that about a real, live Congresswoman…]

Greene’s response to Trump’s Truth Social rant alone makes the case for her rejection by Trump:

Let’s see:

1. The virtue-signaling religious grandstanding is offensive and inappropriate, as well as irrelevant to her job.

2. Obsessing over the desperate Epstein files is Trump-Derangement exemplified, falling for Axis nonsense, as well as proof of mental deficiency.

3. Fed up with “foreign causes”? The United States has a stake in foreign policy. Greene is an isolationist of the 1930s knuckle-dragging variety. I’d love to quiz her on World War II and the Cold War. I bet I’d be horrified.

4. Trump hasn’t been President for a full year yet, and expecting him to have cured Biden’s inflation by now shows how much Greene is the dumb American’s representative in Congress, just as the late Senator Roman Hruska once argued for the Senate to confirm a mediocre SCOTUS nominee because, he said, “There are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they?”

Greene needs to join Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, George Santos, and Matt Goetz in the Retired Congressional Embarrassments Hall of Infamy as quickly as possible, and anything the President can do to speed that result along is a boon to all.

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