President Donald Trump on Saturday reacted to the sudden resignation of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a week after he publicly pulled support from the longtime MAGA ally.
Greene announced her official departure from Congress in a video Friday. Trump first reacted to her exit by phone on that same night, telling ABC News White House correspondent Rachel Scott, “I think it’s great news for the country. It’s great.” The president started posting on social media earlier than usual Saturday, doubling down on his joy.
“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,’” he wrote on Truth Social at 6:45 a.m.
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Greene has accused the president of turning on her because of her continued call to release classified documents related to late sex trafficker and Trump friend Jeffrey Epstein. He has meanwhile accused her of going “Far Left” and claimed that she calls him too much.
“For some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went BAD,” he wrote in his Saturday screed.
He also took aim at two Kentucky Republicans, Rep. Thomas Massie and Sen. Rand Paul. Massie filed the discharge petition to a force a vote on the release of the Epstein files, while Paul has said he was “on the side of transparency” in the matter.
Greene’s “relationship with the WORST Republican Congressman in decades, Tom Massie of Kentucky, also known as Rand Paul Jr. because he votes against the Republican Party (and really good legislation!), did not help her,” Trump wrote.
The Georgia congresswoman had broken with Trump not only over his dismissal of the Epstein “hoax,” but also over his handling of the recent government shutdown and lack of a Republican plan to help people who are losing subsidies to afford health insurance policies.
Trump wrote last week that he would endorse a challenger against her in the midterms.
“For some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went BAD,” he wrote Saturday. “Nevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie, and thank her for her service to our Country! President DJT.”
Greene argued in a statement Friday that Trump has abandoned the American people.
She wrote, “If I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can’t even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.”
