Welp, President Donald Trump wasted no time turning Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation into a victory lap..
Trump, hit up his favorite place, Truth Social, with a fiery post aimed squarely at the Georgia Republican he now openly mocks. “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, tossing in a couple extra elbows at Rep. Thomas Massie and Sen. Rand Paul.
He’s been basking in the news since Greene’s Friday night announcement. Shortly after her abrupt statement, Trump spoke with ABC News and said the development was “great news” for the country.
Greene’s resignation marks the culmination of her dramatic break from the Trump orbit. She cited her ongoing clash with the former president, particularly after she joined Democrats in demanding the full release of files tied to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The fallout didn’t stop there. For weeks, Greene had been calling out Trump for in her view focusing too much on global crises and not enough on issues at home. Whether it was the Epstein documents, the war in Gaza, or regulating artificial intelligence, she repeatedly found herself out of step with Trump and increasingly vocal about it. But it was her loud push for transparency on the Epstein files that reportedly became Trump’s final straw.
“All I see ‘Wacky’ Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!,” Trump blasted last week, claiming the congresswoman “has gone Far Left.”
Greene, for her part, held her ground in her resignation announcement, releasing a statement dripping with frustration and defiance. “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 wrote on X.
In a 10-minute video, she added that it wouldn’t be right for her Georgia district to “endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for,” warning that Republicans are on track to lose the midterms if the current infighting continues.
Greene is set to officially step down on Jan. 5, a date that now looms large for House Republicans already juggling a razor-thin majority under Speaker Mike Johnson. Whew!