President Trump late Friday announced he is pulling his endorsement and support of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and would support a primary challenge against her — a major escalation of their growing beef after months of the House Republican criticizing fellow GOP members and the commander in chief himself.
“I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that despite his record, “all I see ‘Wacky’ Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!”
Trump in the post called Greene a “ranting lunatic” and that she has “gone Far Left.”
The un-endorsement came days after a discharge petition to force a vote on a bill directing the Department of Justice to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein got enough signatures to succeed. Greene was one of four Republicans to sign on, in spite of fierce objections of Trump.
Greene’s split from the president she had once adamantly supported started months earlier, after Trump discouraged Greene earlier this year from running for statewide office in Georgia, which Trump confirmed in the post.
“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 said in the post.
“She has told many people that she is upset that I don’t return her phone calls anymore, but with 219 Congressmen/women, 53 U.S. 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.”
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Greene in a response on X said that Trump “lied about me” — “I haven’t called him at all.”
She shared a text message she sent Trump earlier on Friday encouraging him to “lean into” the Epstein files issue, noting former President Clinton’s connections to Epstein.
“Apparently this is what sent him over the edge. The Epstein files. And of course he’s coming after me hard to make an example to scare all the other Republicans before next weeks vote to release the Epstein files,” Greene said.
“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,” she added.
Shortly before making the post, Trump told reporters while traveling to his Mar-a-Lago resort that he was open to endorsing someone in primary bid against Greene. On Truth Social, he went further, writing that “the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support.”
“Something happened to her over the last period of a month or two where she changed, I think, politically,” he told reporters on Air Force One. “I think that her constituents aren’t going to be happy. Already I have people calling me, they want to challenge her to a race in her district in Georgia.”
While Greene forged her political identity in Congress as a fierce loyalist of President Trump, she has put herself on the opposite side of many of the president’s positions since he has been back in the White House.
Greene over the summer opposed Trump’s strike on Iran, and became first Republican in Congress to dub Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide.” She signed the Epstein discharge petition. And she went against Republicans’ shutdown messaging, saying the GOP have no plan to address health care.
Greene told The Hill in an interview in October that she is “100 percent the same person today as I was when I ran for Congress.”
At the end of his post, Trump took a swipe at Greene for appearing on “The View” last week, during which she said that it is “OK” if Trump does not “love” her back right now.
“She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors,” Trump said.
