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President Donald Trump struck a more conciliatory tone Saturday when asked about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene just hours after she savaged him in a lengthy resignation statement. Greene shocked Washington on Friday when she announced she will resign from Congress effective Jan. 5, 2026.
She released a ten-plus-minute video on X in which she compared Trump to a domestic abuser while outlining her reasons for abruptly leaving office.
Trump first reacted Friday night during a phone conversation with ABC News White House correspondent Rachel Scott. “I think it’s great news for the country. It’s great,” he said.
He expanded on those remarks early Saturday in a 6:45 AM Truth Social post that included several insults and a new nickname.
“Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown, because of PLUMMETING Poll Numbers, and not wanting to face a Primary Challenger with a strong Trump Endorsement (where she would have no chance of winning!), has decided to call it ‘quits,’” Trump wrote.
He also criticized her ties to Rep. Thomas Massie, calling him “the WORST Republican Congressman in decades” and “Rand Paul Jr.”
Trump said Greene “went BAD” because he refused to return what he described as her “never ending barrage of phone calls.”
“Nevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie, and thank her for her service to our Country!” Trump added.
But Trump softened his posture when speaking to reporters Saturday afternoon as he walked to Marine One for a visit to The Courses at Andrews.
A reporter asked him whether he was willing to forgive Greene.
“Forgive for what?” Trump responded.
“No, we just, I just disagreed with her philosophy.”
He again attacked Massie.
“She started backing perhaps the worst Republican congressman in our history, you know, stupid person named Massie.”
Trump said he encouraged Greene to “go your own way” and suggested her resignation was inevitable because “she would never have survived a primary.”
However, he ended on a gentler note. “But I think she’s a nice person,” Trump said before leaving the press area.
Greene announced Friday evening that she is resigning from Congress, following a contentious split with Trump. She represented Georgia’s 14th Congressional District for five years.
Her departure follows weeks of escalating tensions with the president after she repeatedly called for the immediate public release of the Jeffrey Epstein client list and related files. The dispute prompted Trump to criticize her and withdraw his endorsement in several posts on Truth Social.
“I have too much self-respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms,” Greene said in the video.
“If I am cast aside by the president and the MAGA political machine and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders and the elite donor class that can never, ever relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well,” she added.
“I have fought harder than almost any other elected Republican to elect Donald Trump and Republicans to power, traveling the country for years, spending millions of my own money, missing precious time with my family that I can never get back,” Greene wrote in her resignation letter.
