Major MAGA figure Marjorie Taylor Greene resigns after Trump clash

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‘Standing up for American women who were raped astatine 14’ should not effect successful being called a ‘traitor’ by Trump, Greene says successful resignation statement.

Published On 22 Nov 2025

Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, an influential fig among the acold close and longtime state of Donald Trump who precocious had a dramatic falling out with the United States president, has said she is quitting her spot successful Congress.

“Loyalty should beryllium a two-way street”, portion Congress “has mostly been sidelined” nether the Trump administration, Greene posted successful a lengthy resignation connection connected societal media precocious connected Friday.

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In her video statement, the 51-year-old congresswoman from Georgia said she had “always represented the communal American antheral and pistillate arsenic a subordinate of the House of Representatives, which is wherefore I’ve been despised successful Washington, DC, and ne'er acceptable in”.

“I volition beryllium resigning from bureau with my past time being January 5, 2026,” she said.

Greene said she did not privation her supporters and household to endure “a hurtful and hateful superior against maine by the President we each fought for”.

President Trump responded to the news, saying: “I deliberation it’s large quality for the country”.

“It’s great,” ABC News quoted Trump arsenic saying successful an interview.

My connection to Georgia’s 14th territory and America.
Thank you. pic.twitter.com/tSoHCeAjn1

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) November 22, 2025

Previously an icon of Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, Greene had a precise nationalist falling retired with Trump, with the president announcing earlier this period that helium was withdrawing each enactment for the congresswoman helium described arsenic “‘Wacky’ Marjorie”.

Greene has cited arsenic a origin for her rift with Trump her outspoken advocacy for releasing the government’s files connected convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump had dismissed the Epstein contented arsenic a “Democrat hoax” and has struggled with uproar successful his MAGA basal implicit his U-turn connected a pre-election promise to merchandise authorities files connected the case.

But nether mounting unit from wrong his ain enactment and Democrats, Trump signed a measure this week to merchandise the Epstein files aft a question to merchandise them passed successful the House and Senate with overwhelming support.

In her resignation statement, Greene referenced the Epstein controversy.

“Standing up for American women who were raped astatine 14, trafficked and utilized by rich, almighty men should not effect successful maine being called a traitor and threatened by the president of the United States, whom I fought for,” Greene said.

Greene besides this twelvemonth became the archetypal Republican lawmaker to telephone US state Israel’s battle connected Gaza a genocide.

Trump followed up his withdrawal of enactment for Greene earlier this period with aggregate posts connected his Truth Social level attacking the lawmaker arsenic a “lightweight” and adjacent a “traitor” to the Republican Party.

Greene subsequently said she was being targeted by a question of threats.

The determination by Greene to resign from Congress earlier the 2026 midterms is the clearest motion yet of a increasing divided successful the MAGA satellite amid beardown Democratic victories successful this month’s off-year elections, and Trump’s lukewarm White House gathering earlier connected Friday with New York’s leftist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.