President Donald Trump escalated his feud with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Saturday, just hours after she announced she will resign from Congress in January — a stunning move that follows the collapse of what was once one of the closest alliances in the MAGA movement.
In a blistering Truth Social post, Trump mocked Greene’s exit and suggested she’s running for the door because he pulled his endorsement earlier this month. According to Trump, Greene simply didn’t want to face a Trump-backed primary challenger.
“Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown, because of PLUMMETING Poll Numbers, and not wanting to face a Primary Challenger with a strong Trump Endorsement (where she would have no chance of winning!), has decided to call it ‘quits,’” Trump wrote, deploying his new nickname for the Georgia Republican.
Trump also took aim at Greene’s alliance with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), one of the conference’s most libertarian and least cooperative lawmakers. “Her relationship with the WORST Republican Congressman in decades… did not help her,” Trump said, slamming Massie as “Rand Paul Jr.”
Still, Trump ended with a note of begrudging appreciation, saying Greene had been loyal “until she went BAD,” which he attributed to his refusal to “return her never ending barrage of phone calls.”
Greene, in a lengthy video statement posted to X, said she would step down on January 5 — and accused Trump of turning on her for political convenience.
“I have too much self-respect and dignity to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for,” she said. She added she would not endure being “a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away.”
Greene accused Trump of trying to “destroy” her and argued that if MAGA-world is “casting her aside,” it is also abandoning ordinary Americans. She blamed “Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the donor elite class” for her downfall.
Trump, asked by ABC News about Greene’s resignation, brushed it off as “great news for the country.”
The Greene–Trump relationship began unraveling after she bucked House GOP leadership and signed a bipartisan discharge petition demanding the DOJ release all files on Jeffrey Epstein. Trump initially dismissed the Epstein scandal as a “hoax” before ultimately signing the bill once Congress passed it. Greene said her stand was about justice for victims, not politics.
In recent weeks, Greene also unleashed harsh criticism on her own party. She attacked Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for failing to offer a GOP health care alternative as premiums rise nationwide. She continued defending her MAGA bona fides while warning the movement was being co-opted by establishment forces.
On Saturday, Greene used her final message to supporters to strike a populist tone.
“I believe in the American people. You are stronger and more resilient than you know,” she wrote. “There are no leaders that will save this country, but YOU… If we all stitch our torn and tattered beautiful star-spangled banner back together, we can do anything.”
Her departure now marks one of the most dramatic fractures yet inside the Republican Party — and a sign that even high-profile MAGA figures can be cast aside once they break with Trump.
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