President Donald Trump announced that he would withdraw his support for Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her a “lunatic” and accusing her of leaning to the “far left.”
“I am withdrawing my endorsement and endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene from the great state of Georgia,” President Trump said in a post on his platform Truth Social late Friday.
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The US leader labeled Greene an “eccentric” and said that despite her “record-setting accomplishments” during her time in office, all the congresswoman had done was “complain, complain, complain.”
Congresswoman Greene has long been a staunch ally and ardent defender of Trump, even wearing a Make America Great Again (MAGA) baseball cap to President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address.
But in recent months, he has been at odds with the White House and Republican lawmakers, saying the Trump administration needs a plan to help people who stand to lose health insurance benefits as part of planned cuts during the just-ended federal government shutdown.
More notably, Greene is also a vocal campaigner for transparency and the full release of files related to the late Jeffrey Epstein, a recurring scandal that continues to engulf President Trump.
Greene responded to President Trump’s announcement on Friday with a screenshot of a text message she sent to the president about the Epstein scandal, claiming that “he has overstepped his bounds.”
“It’s truly amazing how hard he is fighting to stop the Epstein files from being leaked, to actually reach this level,” she wrote to X.
“Most Americans wish he would fight this hard to help the forgotten men and women of America who are tired of foreign wars and foreign causes, who are going bankrupt trying to feed their families, who are losing hope of achieving the American Dream,” she said.
Greene also claimed that Trump was going after her and that it would be “hard to make an example to scare all the other Republicans before next week’s vote to release the Epstein files.”
President Trump attacked me and lied about me. I haven’t called him at all, but I sent these text messages today. Apparently this is what pushed him to the limit.
Epstein file.
And of course he chases me hard to make an example to scare others… pic.twitter.com/EcUzaohZZs
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 15, 2025
House Speaker Mike Johnson announced Wednesday that the agency will vote next week on whether to force the Justice Department to release all files related to Epstein, who died by suicide in prison in 2019.
This comes as a result of the bipartisan Epstein File Transparency Act, a removal petition that allows a majority of members to bypass House leadership and force a vote on the issue, signed by Greene and three other House Republicans.
If upheld, the bill would force the release of flight and travel records, individuals named or mentioned in connection with the Epstein investigation, and materials related to Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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President Trump has come under increasing scrutiny over his alleged relationship with the disgraced financier, most recently on Wednesday when Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released new emails that appear to further deepen the relationship between the two.
In one email, Epstein told Maxwell that Trump had “spent hours” with one of his abuse victims at his home. The White House claimed the communications “prove nothing.”
President Trump has branded the suggestion that there was a list of Epstein’s clients with his name on it a “hoax” pushed by his Democratic opponents and has repeatedly urged his supporters to distance themselves from the scandal.
In an interview Friday, Greene called President Trump’s resistance to releasing the files a “huge miscalculation,” adding that she believes he has nothing to hide.
In his disavowal of Greene, Trump made no mention of the Epstein issue, instead claiming that the rift between the two began when he discouraged Greene from running for senator or governor because of low voter turnout.
“She’s told a lot of people that she’s upset that I don’t return her calls anymore, but we’re 219 congressmen and women, 53 U.S. senators, 24 Cabinet members, in almost 200 countries, and we live otherwise normal lives, and we can’t take calls from a madman who rants every day,” Trump said.
Trump went on to say that Georgia Republicans are “sick of her and her antics” and that if they find an alternative candidate to run in the next midterm elections, that candidate will receive their “full and unwavering support.”
