President’s brutal reaction to MTG quitting as ex-loyalist says she refuses to be a ‘battered wife’

Donald Trump called Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation ‘great news for the country’ in his first reaction to his former ally’s statement calling it quits. 

Greene announced she will step down from Congress on Friday in a damning four-page rant in which she savaged the president and said the state of the country ‘breaks my heart’. 

Speaking to ABC News, Trump had no interest in mending fences with Greene in his first words following her resignation.  

‘I think it’s great news for the country. It’s great,’ he said.

Trump also said Greene had not reached out or told him of her decision before she made the announcement. 

‘Nah, it doesn’t matter, you know but I think it’s great. I think she should be happy,’ Trump said.

He said he had no plans to speak with Greene but wishes her well, despite the Georgia lawmaker branding him ‘hateful’ in her lengthy resignation statement.

Greene was candid about schism which has emerged between her and the president and likened herself to a ‘battered wife’.

She warned Republicans will likely lose the midterms elections next year and predicted she would, ‘be expected to defend the president against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me’.

‘It’s all so absurd and completely unserious,’ she said. ‘I refuse to be a battered wife hoping it all goes away and gets better.’

She said she didn’t want her congressional district ‘to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for,’ she said.

Greene’s resignation followed a public fallout with Trump in recent months, as the congresswoman criticized him for his stance on files related to Jeffrey Epstein, along with foreign policy and health care.

Trump branded her a ‘traitor’ and ‘wacky’ and said he would endorse a challenger against her when she ran for reelection next year. 

Her break with him was a notable fissure in his grip over conservatives, particularly his most ardent base. 

But her decision to step down in the face of his opposition put her on the same track as many of the more moderate establishment Republicans before her who went crosswise with Trump.

In her video Friday, she underscored her longtime loyalty to Trump except on a few issues, and said it was ‘unfair and wrong’ that he attacked her for disagreeing.

‘Loyalty should be a two-way street and we should be able to vote our conscience and represent our district’s interest, because our job title is literally ‘representative,’ she said.

She said her last day would be January 5, 2026, just days after her federal pension vests.

Beyond Greene’s journalist boyfriend and lookalike daughter, many Republicans were supportive.

‘Unfortunately, there’s a lot of truth to what Marjorie had to say. I can’t blame her for leaving this institution that has betrayed the American people,’ said Indiana GOP Congresswoman Victoria Spatz. 

Thomas Massie, A Kentucky libertarian who is also frequently the brunt of Trump’s attacks, was full of praise. 

‘I’m very sad for our country but so happy for my friend Marjorie. I’ll miss her tremendously. She embodies what a true Representative should be. Everyone should read her statement; there’s more honesty expressed in these four pages than most politicians will speak in a lifetime,’ he said.

It comes just one week after a back and forth with Trump over social media caused a schism in the MAGA base. 

Greene and Trump traded social media barbs on Friday, with Greene sharing screenshots of texts she sent to Trump about the Epstein files.

In her resignation statement, Greene expressed disgust after, ‘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’.

The heart of her feud with the president was his failure over his major campaign promise to release the Epstein files.

The pledge became rallying cry for Greene and other Republican rebels on Capitol Hill, a fallout that came to a head on Friday as the pair traded vicious jabs on social media.

The president – who has long said he cut Epstein off decades ago and did nothing wrong – explosively announced he was ‘unendorsing’ the Georgia Republican, accusing her of becoming ‘left wing’.

But for Greene, the issue is bigger than Trump – it’s about ‘America First’, a central MAGA tenet.

Trump kickstarted the spat, which included an admission that he advised her not to run for Senate in 2026, on Truth Social earlier that evening. 

‘I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia,’ he wrote. 

Trump then listed the accomplishments of his nine months in office before alleging that ‘all I see ‘Wacky’ Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!’

He wrote: ‘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!).’

The president claims that since he refused to endorse her ambitions, he doesn’t return her phone calls. 

‘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,’ Trump claimed.

He then suggested that Greene should face a primary to retain her deep red seat in Georgia in 2026.   

‘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,’ he said.

Trump then claimed the Greene ‘has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors. Thank you for your attention to this matter.’ 

Greene fired back by sharing screenshots of texts she sent to Trump about the importance of the Epstein files, as well as with another person named ‘NH’ – an apparent reference to the president’s assistant Natalie Harp. 

The text message she sent Trump advises him to ‘lean in’ to former President Bill Clinton’s own connections to the billionaire pedophile. Earlier Friday, Trump ordered an investigation into Clinton’s ties to Epstein.

‘Check the flight logs of Epstein’s plane. Bill Clinton is on there like 26 times! Hillary too!! For many of us, releasing the Epstein files has always been for the women who were victims of Jeffrey Epstein, but also because we believed Democrat bad guys like the Clintons were entangled and involved with him,’ Greene said in the text.

‘Epstein was the spider that wove the web of the deep state. Lean into it,’ she advised.

In the second screenshot, Greene responds to a text from ‘NH’ that appears to be fuming about her Trump criticisms, stating: ‘THE JEFFREY EPSTEIN HOAX.’ 

Greene replies: ‘In every single interview I have done I have defended President Trump. I’ve said over and over the women say he did nothing wrong and their attorney says he’s the only one who helped. And the Democrats had 4 years to release the files but did nothing.’ 

Greene adds: ‘Stop ignoring the women. Many of them literally voted for President Trump and say so publicly. Them being raped as teenagers is not a hoax. 

In a lengthy statement on X, Greene explained: ‘[Trump is] coming after me hard to make an example to scare all the other Republicans before next weeks vote to release the Epstein files. It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level.’

‘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. That’s what I voted for,’ she continued. 

Greene noted that she has given Trump ‘too much of my precious time, too much of my own money, and fought harder for him even when almost all other Republicans turned their back and denounced him.’

‘But 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. I remain the same today as I’ve always been and I will continue to pray this administration will be successful because the American people desperately deserve what they voted for. For me, I remain America First and America Only!!!’ 

In a post shortly after, Greene even touched on the immigration scrap Trump had earlier this week, quote-tweeting her supporting for limiting H1B visas.  

Trump branded Greene with two of his trademark insulting nicknames on Saturday also, as their conflict deepened. 

He posted on Truth Social shortly after Greene shared a measured statement of her own, following their online screaming match Friday. 

In it, he branded the Georgia Representative as ‘Marjorie Taylor Brown’ adding: ‘Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!’.

In a follow up post, he also labelled her ‘Marjorie Traitor Greene’, after saying she ‘betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned Left’.

Trump added: ‘Just another Fake politician, no different than Rand Paul Jr. (Thomas Massie), who got caught being a full fledged Republican In Name Only (RINO)! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!’

By Sunday, Greene said she had received a pipe bomb threat and been a victim of ‘pizza doxxing’ due to Trump’s attacks against her.

‘The hoax pizza deliveries have started now, to my house and my family members,’ she said Sunday evening. She included a screen shot explaining the concept of ‘pizza doxxing’.

She added in an update that her construction company’s office has received a pipe bomb threat.

Greene continued to blame the threats on the president.

‘President Trump’s unwarranted and vicious attacks against me were a dog whistle to dangerous radicals that could lead to serious attacks on me and my family,’ she said.