Marjorie Taylor Green not so allied with Trump lately

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Once the MAGA queen, Marjorie Taylor Greene is slowly breaking away from her party—and President Donald Trump isn’t happy.

“What’s going on with Marjorie?” Trump asked two senior Republicans on a call, according to NBC sources.

The Georgia congresswoman adamantly says that Trump is her “favorite president,” but her recent stance on key issues has strayed from the president’s path.

“They’re literally the reason why the government is shut down right now,” Greene told NBC about the Republican-led Senate.

Trump and Republicans have blamed the government shutdown on Democrats, even changing the official White House website to include a countdown stating, “Democrats Have Shut Down the Government.”

But Greene hasn’t fallen in line with her party over the shutdown.

“No I’m not towing the party line on this, or playing loyalty games,” Greene posted on X on Monday. She added: “I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year, my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district.”

The shutdown, which began on October 1, occurred because Democrats wanted the budget bill to include an extension of Obamacare’s healthcare subsidies. After a week of shutdown, the bill still fell short of the 60 votes needed to pass through the Senate.

A CBS News/YouGov poll found that more Americans blame Trump and Republicans in Congress for the shutdown than blame Democrats.

“I’m not some sort of blind slave to the president, and I don’t think anyone should be,” Greene said to NBC, adding, “I’m elected by my district. That’s who I work for, and I got elected without the president’s endorsement, and, you know, I think that has served me really well.”

Greene won her Georgia congressional primary in 2020 without Trump’s endorsement but went on to receive his support in the general election. “Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives up — a real WINNER!" Trump wrote on Twitter following her primary win.

In 2021, the congresswoman sent a text message to the then–chief of staff of President Donald Trump calling for martial law to keep the president in power following the Jan. 6. riot at Capitol Hill, CNN reported.

Four sources claim that Greene’s relationship with her party began to break down after the White House talked her out of running for Senate, and one source said she felt disappointed when she did not receive the Homeland Security job she was seeking in the new Trump administration.

In September 2025, according to sources, Greene turned down an invitation to the grand opening of Trump’s lavish “Rose Garden Club,” with her office claiming she was under the weather.

“I think what helps [Trump] the most is when he has people that are willing to be honest with him and not just tell him what they think he wants to hear,” Greene told NBC.

One of the most significant points of contention has been Greene’s push to release the Epstein files, which the Department of Justice had previously said would be made public. She is one of four Republicans who have signed a “discharge petition” to release the documents.

“What I am upset over is my party has no solution,” she told NBC. “It’s not something that we talk about frequently, but it is a reality for Americans, and it’s something that I don’t think we can ignore. I want, I really want to fix it.”

Ten months into Donald Trump’s second term, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has positioned herself as a surprising critic of the administration’s policies — and as a torchbearer for the “America First” agenda that she believes the president has drifted from, she told NBC News in recent interviews.

Greene, who has long been one of his most outspoken allies, said that Trump personally inspired her run for Congress in Georgia in 2022 and described her political identity as rooted in his promise to represent what she calls “the forgotten man and woman of America.”

“That was me,” she told Tucker Carlson recently, recalling how she saw Trump’s campaign as a “referendum to the Republican Party on behalf of the American people … that were just so sick of Washington, D.C.”

Now, Greene finds herself at the center of a divide inside the Republican Party over how deeply the U.S. should involve itself abroad, as surveys show the state of the economy is top of mind for many Americans and following a round of elections that focused on affordability.

“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,” Greene told NBC News.

The dispute underscores a broader rift over whether Trump’s presidency still reflects the populist message that powered his rise. And it reflects a MAGA movement preparing for a future without Trump at the top of the ticket, with the next generation of leaders figuring out where to take the base he built.

On Friday night, just hours after this article published, Trump decided he had had enough. He went on social media and said he was withdrawing his endorsement of her.

He said while the U.S. is now the "'HOTTEST' Country anywhere in the World...all I see 'Wacky' Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!"

Trump also accused her of going "Far Left" and suggested that her criticism of him was personal, because he didn't think she should run for senator or governor. He also said he was open to supporting another Republican primary challenger to Greene.

Since taking office in January, Trump has made 14 foreign trips, with stops in Italy, the Middle East, Canada, Asia and the U.K., among others, according to an NBC News analysis. In the same period, he’s visited 15 U.S. states. That includes a trip to Alaska to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. By the same point in Trump’s first term, he had visited 27 states. Trump also said that he expects to travel to China early next year to meet with President Xi Jinping. And Bloomberg reported Thursday that he may attend the World Economic Forum, a gathering of the political and business elite, next year in Davos, Switzerland.

“We didn’t elect the president to go out there and travel the world and end the foreign wars,” Greene said. “We elected the president to stop sending tax dollars and weapons for the foreign wars — to completely not engage anymore. Watching the foreign leaders come to the White House through a revolving door is not helping Americans.”

“One of the big campaign issues is Americans were fed up with foreign wars,” she added. “It’s like, get us out of this.”

While Trump did promise on the campaign trail to quickly end the wars in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, the latest national NBC News poll shows Republicans overwhelmingly believe he has lived up to their expectations on foreign policy (82%), including 66% of Republicans who do not identify with the MAGA movement.

But for Greene and others, it’s a matter of priorities; they argue that the economy should be the clear focus.

“It’s not that I want a very different foreign policy,” said one Trump ally with a lens on foreign policy, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “He just needs to be messaging more aggressively that his focus is on young Americans, and the things that they are still having trouble getting, and the problems they’re having.”

Greene has escalated her criticism as the foreign visits have continued, saying Trump’s attention abroad is “doing nothing to solve the problems that are really plaguing vulnerable segments of our population, especially young people.”

She has slammed meetings with leaders such as Argentina’s Javier Milei, whom she described as seeking “a bailout,” and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who she said arrived “with his hands out begging for more.”

Girdusky, a Republican consultant who helped run a pro-JD Vance super PAC in the 2022 Ohio Senate race, said it’s not surprising that the president has shown interest in cementing his global legacy.

“When presidents don’t have to run again, they do a lot of foreign policy trips,” Girdusky said. “They do a lot of things for the legacy. And Trump’s Middle East stuff is probably the most important of any president since Nixon.”

The Trump ally said that while he supports Trump raising awareness of, say, Christians being persecuted in Nigeria, “if we get to the point at which we really start talking about doing military action there, then I think we’ve lost the plot.”

Conservatives have also questioned recent U.S. strikes in the Pacific and Caribbean and whether Trump risks the U.S. drifting into deeper conflict. The president, in October, denied that he is considering strikes inside Venezuela.

In an article last month, the conservative journalist Christopher Caldwell questioned the buildup of U.S. military forces and weaponry off the coast of Venezuela, asking, “What does Trump think he’s doing?”

Carlson, in the recent show featuring Greene, outlined what he said were MAGA’s five pillars, or the founding principles of the Trump administration. The first, he said, is putting America first, describing this as the idea “that the country operates on behalf of its owners, the citizens of that country.” Other pillars have a similar focus on the homeland, including a secure border, ending foreign wars, and a “real” domestic economy not dependent on globalization. A fifth calls for protecting free speech.

“You can’t have a global country,” Carlson said, arguing that this is “a point Trump made again and again.”

Asked about Greene’s recent comments following a meeting that morning with Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, Trump said Monday he has to “view the presidency as a worldwide situation, not locally.”

“When you’re president, you really sort of have to watch over the world, because you’re going to be dragged into it — otherwise, you’re going to be dragged into a world war,” Trump said.

“You know, it’s easy to say, ‘Oh, don’t worry about the world.’ But the world is turning out to be our biggest customer,” he continued. “The world is — the world was on fire, and we could have been in that fire very easily if you didn’t have a president that knew what he was doing.”

Of Greene, a longtime ally, he said, “She’s lost her way, I think”

Responding to Trump's comments, Greene told NBC News this week: “I’m America First, America Only. Hardcore.”

Asked if she had spoken to him to hash things out, she said, “No, I haven’t talked to him. 100% haven’t changed.”

Greene dismissed speculation that she is positioning for a 2028 presidential bid, saying she is focused on her district.

President Donald Trump withdrew his endorsement of Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday, citing criticism his long-time supporter has recently made about his agenda.

"I am withdrawing my support and endorsement of 'Congresswoman' Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the great state of Georgia," Trump posted on Truth Social late on Friday.

The president added that conservative voters in Greene's district might consider a primary challenger and that he would support the right candidate against her in next year's midterm election.

Trump 'just attacked me and lied about me,' said Greene
Greene, who has largely avoided criticizing Trump directly, responded by posting on X that he “just attacked me and lied about me.”
She suggested he may have been responding to her efforts to get his administration to release any records it has on the case of the late Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender. Trump has dismissed the furor over the Epstein case as a "hoax" pushed by Democrats.

Greene accused Trump of trying to intimidate other Republicans ahead of a vote next week on releasing the Epstein files, calling it “astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who was once one of President Donald Trump's most vocal supporters, said Saturday that she's facing threats following the president's criticism of her on social media.

"I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. The man I supported and helped get elected," Greene wrote in a post on X on Saturday.

"As a Republican, who overwhelmingly votes for President Trump‘s bills and agenda, his aggression against me which also fuels the venomous nature of his radical internet trolls (many of whom are paid), this is completely shocking to everyone," the congresswoman added in her post.

In recent days, Greene and three other Republican House lawmakers faced pressure from the White House to remove their names from a House petition that will force a floor vote on a measure calling for the Justice Department to release files it has related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Greene has doubled down on her support for releasing the files, writing in her social media post about the new threats she's receiving that, "I now have a small understanding of the fear and pressure the women, who are victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his cabal, must feel."

In a separate post, from her personal account, Greene said her stance on the Epstein files is one of the reasons for Trump's attacks.

She added, "It really makes you wonder what is in those files and who and what country is putting so much pressure on him? I forgive him and I will pray for him to return to his original MAGA promises."