Trump calls it quits with top Maga defender
US President Donald Trump has publicly called it quits with one of his most stalwart supporters, calling Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene “Wacky Marjorie” and saying he would endorse a challenger against her in next year’s midterms “if the right person runs.”
The dismissal of Greene—once the epitome of Trump’s Maga (Make America Great Again) movement and go-between for Trump and other Capitol Hill Republicans—appeared to be the final break in a dispute simmering for months, as Greene has seemingly moderated her political profile.
The three-term US House member has increasingly dissented from Republican leaders, attacking them during the just-ended federal government shutdown and saying they need a plan to help people who are losing subsidies to afford health insurance policies.
Accusing her of going “Far Left,” Trump wrote that all he had witnessed from Greene in recent months is “COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!”
‘My precious time’
On Greene’s purported irritation that he doesn’t return her phone calls, he said: “I can’t take a ranting Lunatic’s call every day.”
Responding on X, Greene said Trump had “attacked me and lied about me,” adding a screenshot of a text she had sent the President earlier in the day about releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files, which she said “is what sent him over the edge.”
The House votes next week over releasing the files. Greene said it was “astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level.”
Writing that she had supported Trump “with too much of my precious time, too much of my own money, and fought harder for him even when almost all other Republicans turned their back and denounced him,” Greene now said “I don’t worship or serve Donald Trump.”
Trump’s post seemingly tied a bow of finality to fissures that widened following this month’s off-cycle elections, in which voters in the New Jersey and Virginia governor races flocked to Democrats in large part over concerns about the cost of living.
Last week, Greene told NBC News that “watching foreign leaders come to the White House through a revolving door is not helping Americans,” adding that Trump needs to focus on high prices at home rather than foreign affairs.
Asked about Greene’s comments, Trump said if he hadn’t met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, China’s tariffs would have had negative ramifications for jobs in Georgia and elsewhere.
He said he felt “something happened to her” and she had “lost her way.”
“She’s lost a wonderful conservative reputation,” Trump said.
In recent weeks, Greene embarked on a charm offensive aimed at people who aren’t hardcore Trump supporters.
Asked on comedian Tim Dillon’s podcast if she wanted to run for president in 2028, Greene said “I hate politics so much” and just wanted “to fix problems”—but didn’t give a definitive answer.
