'I worship God,' not Donald Trump, says MAGA stalwart Marjorie Taylor Greene

 

"All I see 'Wacky' Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!" Trump wrote on social media in announcing he is rescinding his endorsement.

President Donald Trump reached the end of his rope with longtime ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and assigned her a new nickname: 'Wacky.'

"All I see 'Wacky' Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!" Trump wrote on social media Nov. 14. He said he would no longer endorse her and encouraged people to challenge her in Georgia's 2026 Republican primary.

The announcement was the culmination of more than a month of television interviews in which Greene, a staunch supporter of the America First policies Trump ran on, disagreed with Republicans, but largely laid the blame on Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Hours before Trump's post Nov. 14, Greene took the gloves off and doubled down on her isolationist views: "No one cares about the foreign countries. No one cares about the never-ending amount of foreign leaders coming to the White House every single week,” she told NBC News.

The rift also came as Greene works to force the House to vote to release all of the government's records on Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump administration has blocked the release of the files, in defiance of a campaign promise, and now refers to the situation as a hoax.

Was it Epstein or a Senate seat?

While Trump says Greene split with him months ago when he showed her a poll saying she can't win a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia, Greene shared text messages on social media that she sent to Trump about Epstein. “Apparently this is what sent him over the edge," she wrote.

“He’s coming after me hard to make an example to scare all the other Republicans before next week's vote to release the Epstein files,” Greene said, adding: “It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out.”

Greene said that she has been one of Trump’s staunchest supporters — she's recently said she's not just America First but America Only — but concluded: "I don’t worship or serve Donald Trump. I worship God, Jesus is my savior, and I serve my district GA14 and the American people."

The next morning, on Nov. 15, Greene called for "a new way forward" that allows people to have political disagreements and still "love and respect one another.

"The toxic political industrial complex thrives on ripping us all apart but never delivers anything good for the American people, whom I love," she wrote.

How the Trump-Greene rift unfolded

Greene attracted attention for criticizing House GOP leadership during the government shutdown that started Oct. 1 and voicing some of the same concerns about health care costs that Democrats said were keeping them from voting to open the government.

She shifted her criticism to Trump on Nov. 10, writing on X, "I would really like to see nonstop meetings at the WH on domestic policy not foreign policy and foreign country’s leaders." Greene was referring to Trump hosting Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House.

As Trump has focused heavily on foreign policy, including recent trips to Asia and the Middle East, Democrats have honed in on cost-of-living concerns, which helped the party win elections earlier this month.

Trump defended his foreign policy moves and lashed out at Greene in comments aboard Air Force One Nov. 14 as he was traveling to Florida. He later posted his social media message about a possible primary challenge.

"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," Trump wrote.