Trump cuts ties with ‘wacky’ Marjorie Taylor Greene

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By Luke Broadwater and Chris Cameron

November 16, 2025 — 10.42am

Washington: US President Donald Trump is done with congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Once one of Trump’s most reliable allies on Capitol Hill, the Georgia Republican has increasingly broken ranks with him, most notably by calling for the release of the Justice Department’s files about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

By Friday evening (Saturday AEDT), Trump let the world know how he felt.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks during a campaign event for Donald Trump in 2023.

“I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia,” he wrote on social media. Over the past several weeks, Trump said, “all I see ‘Wacky’ Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!”

In a barrage of posts that continued into the weekend, the president characterised Greene – whom he stood by when she was under fire years ago for voicing conspiracy theories about 9/11, school shootings and wildfires started by space lasers – as a “disgrace”, a “traitor” and a nuisance who was interrupting his life.

“She has told many people that she is upset that I don’t return her phone calls any more, but with 219 Congressmen/women, 53 US Senators, 24 Cabinet Members, almost 200 Countries, and an otherwise normal life to lead, I can’t take a ranting Lunatic’s call every day,” he said.

Trump also issued a not-so-veiled threat about her seat in Congress – a public warning to any House Republican who might be considering joining Greene and others on a vote next week to compel the Justice Department to release the Epstein files.

“I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support,” he wrote. “She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors.”

Greene quickly shot back with her own post.

“President Trump just attacked me and lied about me,” she wrote on the social platform X, where she published a text message she said she had sent to the president asking him to “lean into” the Epstein investigation. “I haven’t called him at all, but I did send these text messages today. Apparently, this is what sent him over the edge. The Epstein files.”

She continued: “It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level. But really most Americans wish he would fight this hard to help the forgotten men and women of America who are fed up with foreign wars and foreign causes, are going broke trying to feed their families, and are losing hope of ever achieving the American dream.”

The rupture marks an end to a political relationship that dates back to her first run for office in 2020, when she promoted the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory. (She has since disavowed it.) Greene was arguably Trump’s most outspoken supporter in Congress, and was once considered a possible vice presidential pick.

Under fire when she first got to Congress for spreading dangerous and bigoted misinformation, Greene relied on the support of Trump, who called her a “future Republican star” and “a real WINNER!”

Her support for Trump appeared unwavering; she was once threatened with removal from a State of the Union address for wearing a red Make America Great Again hat on the House floor. As recently as last week, Greene said she felt “love” toward the president.

And while she has often acted as a thorn in the side of House Speaker Mike Johnson, Greene had not broken with Trump – until recently.

She has argued that the president should focus more attention on domestic issues instead of flying abroad to negotiate deals with other countries. She was the first Republican lawmaker to label the crisis in the Gaza Strip a genocide. And she was one of only four House Republicans who joined Democrats in trying to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files in full.

Still, she has argued that she understands the “America first” movement that Trump started better than any Republican, and has said she is trying to persuade Trump to stick to the principles of his own movement.

“I don’t worship or serve Donald Trump,” Greene said in her post Friday night. Instead, she said, “I worship God, Jesus is my saviour, and I serve my district GA14 and the American people.”

Greene is not the first lawmaker to earn Donald Trump’s anger but their split is the most notable of his second term.

In a follow-up post on Saturday morning, Greene appeared to distance herself more broadly from the Republican Party as she spoke of political forces that had divided the country.

“There needs to be a new way forward,” Greene said. “I believe in the American people more than I believe in any leader or political party and the American people deserve so much better than how they have been treated by both sides of the aisle.”

The fallout between Trump and Greene has been building for weeks and Trump has hinted at his agitation with her before.

Over the summer, Trump saw Greene’s boyfriend, Brian Glenn, a reporter for the right-wing news outlet Real America’s Voice, at an event with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Trump turned to DeSantis and said, “Do you think it’s easy being with Marjorie?”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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