Marjorie Taylor Greene walks back Trump promise with snippy remark: 'Understand language!'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) walked back one of Donald Trump's many Day One promises with a condescending remark.

The president-elect made an attention-grabbing promise during a May 2023 town hall to "settle" the Russian-Ukraine war within "24 hours" of taking office, which was actually his campaign's most consistent promise, but the Georgia Republican told NOTUS the media had simply gotten that oft-stated position wrong.

“I think you need to understand language,” Greene said, "and everyone else in America understands that language.”

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“I don’t think the media pressing Day One is specifically ‘Day One,’” she added. “But he’s talking about that as one of his first roles as president, and there are many. He’s going to be writing hundreds of executive orders but, yes, ending that war is important.”

Greene then said it would be "useless" for reporters to try to “hold president Trump’s feet to the fire."

"President Trump will be the one that ends that war where the Democrats and Joe Biden fail,” Greene said.

The president-elect has spoken by phone with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy since the November election, and Russian president Vladimir Putin said he was "open" to a meeting with Trump, but his own special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, admits a Jan. 20 settlement as unlikely.

“Let’s set it at 100 days,” Kellogg said, "and move all the way back and figure a way we can do this in the near term to make sure that the solution is solid, it’s sustainable and that this war ends so that we stop the carnage.”

Trump transition spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, who will be White House press secretary, said that Trump has “repeatedly stated that a top priority in his second term will be to quickly negotiate a peaceful resolution to the Russia-Ukraine war.”

“He will do what is necessary to restore peace and rebuild American strength and deterrence on the world stage,” she said.

House speaker Mike Johnson also would not commit to Trump ending the conflict on Day One, but said his return to the presidency would be a "game changer," and other Republicans seemed to agree that his presence in the White House would shock Putin into winding down his invasion.

“We have a weak, beta male, passive president,” Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO), referring to president Joe Biden. “Trump is going to come in. He can’t be pushed around. I think that Putin understands that and respects that. He has to respect that.”