Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has gone nuclear on the Republican Party after President Donald Trump delivered a stinging snub to her ambitions, an expert claimed Tuesday.
Greene, a firebrand right-winger who was long been Trump’s biggest cheerleader, claimed Saturday she was close to splitting with the GOP that she said has become out of sync with what its conservative base wants.
“I don’t know if the Republican Party is leaving me, or if I’m kind of not relating to the Republican Party as much anymore,” Greene told the Daily Mail on Saturday.
“The course that it’s on, I don’t want to have anything to do with it. I just don’t care anymore.”
Ostensibly, Greene’s fallout with Trump and his party is based on policy — the Georgia congresswoman has vehemently opposed spending in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, she’s a vocal opponent of support to Ukraine and she’s outspoken about what she sees as a Jeffrey Epstein cover-up.
“If you build your movement on individuals who are anti-establishment, once you become the establishment, it’s hard to retain those people because their entire like framework for viewing politics is there’s something wrong with the state, there’s something wrong with how we’re engaging in politics,” said Atlantic writer Jersualem Demsas on CNN Tuesday morning.
But Gabby Birenbaum, the Washington correspondent for the Texas Tribune, sees a more personal reason for Greene’s backlash against her party.
Birenbaum believed Greene’s anger comes from her ambition to run for governor of Georgia — a move she recently scrapped. Trump did not publicly support her.
“I think part of the subtext here, right, is she wanted to run for higher office in Georgia, and reportedly he discouraged her,” Birenbaum said.
“I mean, I’m sure that has to sting if you’re her.”