President Donald Trump on Saturday celebrated the resignation of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), continuing to expose the public break with a once staunch ally he now terms a ”traitor.”
“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,’ the president wrote on Truth Social, adding a jab at Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), two other GOP Trump foes.
Trump has been celebrating the news since Greene’s Friday night statement. Shortly after Greene’s abrupt announcement, Trump said it was “great news” for the country in an interview with ABC News, adding that the congressmember had not given him a heads up about her decision.
In fact, the once possible Trump heir-apparent gave no early notice to anyone in House Republican leadership, POLITICO reported Friday.
Greene, in a move that would have been unimaginable a year ago, announced Friday her impending resignation from Congress, referencing her recent fallout with the president after she joined Democrats in calling for the Department of Justice to release the entirety of the files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Greene’s split from Trump in recent weeks highlighted increasing divisions within the MAGA movement, as she criticized Trump not only over his handling of the release of the Epstein files, but also for, in her view, prioritizing international affairs over domestic issues. Over the past several months, Greene became a thorn in the president’s side, diverging from him on the Epstein files, the war in Gaza and most recently, regulating artificial intelligence.
But her vocal support in releasing the Epstein files became the final straw for the president.
“All I see “Wacky” Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!,” Trump wrote in a post last week, saying that the Georgia congressmember “has gone Far Left.”
Greene dug in her heels in her statement announcing her resignation.
“Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for,” she said in the statement, which was posted on X.
She said in her 10-minute video that it would not be fair for her district in Georgia to “endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for,” adding that Republicans will likely lose the midterms.
Greene said she officially will step down from office on Jan. 5, threatening an already tight Republican majority in the House ahead of what are expected to be grueling races in 2026 for a GOP conference helmed by House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Greene left her future open-ended, and she did not rule out another run for public office in her statement. Trump, meanwhile, suggested her political ambitions contributed to their falling out.
“It seemed to all begin when I sent her a Poll stating that she should not run for Senator, or Governor, she was at 12%, and didn’t have a chance (unless, of course, she had my Endorsement — which she wasn’t about to get!)” Trump wrote in the post withdrawing his endorsement earlier this month.
