Trump cuts ties with Marjorie Taylor Greene, once among his top MAGA-world defenders
(NPR) President Donald Trump has publicly called it quits with one of his most stalwart MAGA-world supporters, calling Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene "'Wacky' Marjorie" and saying he would endorse a challenger against her in next year's midterms "if the right person runs."
The dismissal of Greene once the epitome of "Make America Great Again," sporting the signature red cap for President Joe Biden's 2024 State of the Union address and acting as a go-between for Trump and other Capitol Hill Republicans appeared to be the final break in a dispute simmering for months, as Greene has seemingly moderated her political profile. The three-term U.S. House member has increasingly dissented from Republican leaders, attacking them during the just-ended federal government shutdown and saying they need a plan to help people who are losing subsidies to afford health insurance policies.
Accusing the Georgia Republican of going "Far Left," Trump wrote that all he had witnessed from Greene in recent months is "COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!" adding, of Greene's purported irritation that he doesn't return her phone calls, "I can't take a ranting Lunatic's call every day."
In a response on X, Greene wrote Friday that Trump had "attacked me and lied about me." She added a screenshot of a text she said she had sent the president earlier in the day about releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files, which she said "is what sent him over the edge."
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/15/g-s1-97954/trump-marjorie-taylor-greene
Irish_Dem
(77,997 posts)She figures she has nothing to lose at this point.
And everything to gain.
Dixiegrrrl
(162 posts)so seems to have bigger political plans.
Her timing to get on trump's shit list seems planned.
Irish_Dem
(77,997 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(131,072 posts)In an ideal world they'd cancel each other out.
RussBLib
(10,357 posts)In my view, a big mistake we on the left make is that we too often don't take wins when we get them. We are so eager to show how "orthodox" and "pure" we are that when someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene begins moving in the right (left) direction, we immediately shit on her and reject her from our "club."
I'm not suggesting we be naive or turn a blind eye to a person's past or continued ignorance in other areas, but coalitions that actually move us in the right direction aren't built using purity tests. They are built by accepting allies wherever we can find them on the issues that matter.
Wealth inequality, affordable healthcare, avoiding pointless wars, and government transparency are all winnable issues for us, but not if we reject and ostracize folks from the right who are willing to help us accomplish these goals.
What do we ultimately accomplish by rejecting folks who are finally rejecting Trump? It's self-defeating.
With eyes wide open, we have the opportunity to take advantage of this shift.
We can finally rid ourselves of the corporate wing of the Democratic Party and every remaining neocon. And, most importantly, we can work together to facilitate the end of MAGA forever.
Or you can make yourself feel good by clinging to your self-righteous shunning.
This is not aimed at anyone on this thread, just at the good Democrats who seem to not want to hear anything Greene says.