MTG Revolts Against MAGA. Trump Has Had Enough.

Over the weekend, the long-simmering feud between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and the president of the United States finally boiled over.

Greene — the Jewish space laser lady — has been attempting to run her own knockoff version of MAGA. She’s been out retailing it to “The View.” She’s been out retailing it to CNN and MSNBC.

She’s become the hot new thing in the legacy media. They now have “strange new respect” for Marjorie Taylor Greene because she has decided that she is going to attack Trump full-time.

President Trump put out a statement on Saturday slamming Greene for trying to undermine his administration. He wrote on Truth Social:

Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!), betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned Left, performed poorly on the pathetic View, and became the RINO that we all know she always was.

That followed Greene’s repeated attacks on President Trump, particularly over Jeffrey Epstein.

On Friday, Greene suggested on CBS that the president of the United States was attempting to protect pedophiles, saying:

The American people deserve to see transparency from their government. The Rich, powerful people should not be protected. That is completely wrong. And it’s a message to victims everywhere. Victims of rape, human trafficking, and children who are trapped in terrible situations that the government will not protect the predators, that we will work hard to protect the victims.

It is ridiculous to suggest the president of the United States is trying to protect predators. This line has been retailed by a wide variety of people who are supposedly allies of President Trump who have turned on him, using the Epstein files as a way of getting at him.

Thus, the president withdrew his support for Marjorie Taylor Greene and suggested that he might back her opponent in the primary.

Greene wouldn’t be known if it had not been for the president of the United States touting her, treating her as an ally and building her up. She got very angry because she wanted to run for Senate in Georgia and he pointed out to her she was going to lose by 20 points to Jon Ossoff if she ran for Senate in Georgia.

This ticked her off. So President Trump finally lost it on Truth Social, writing:

I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of “Congresswoman” Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia. … all I see ‘Wacky’ Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN! It seemed to all begin when I sent her a Poll stating that she should not run for Senator, or Governor, she was at 12%, and didn’t have a chance (unless, of course, she had my Endorsement — which she wasn’t about to get!). She has told many people that she is upset that I don’t return her phone calls anymore, but with 219 Congressmen/women, 53 U.S. Senators, 24 Cabinet Members, almost 200 Countries, and an otherwise normal life to lead, I can’t take a ranting Lunatic’s call every day.

I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support,” he continued. “She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors.

Greene was excited about this because she’s attempting again to run an anti-Trump campaign inside the Republican Party.

She responded by saying, “President Trump just attacked me and lied about me.”

Always playing the victim.

I haven’t called him at all, but I did send these text messages today,” she stated. “Apparently, this is what sent him over the edge. The Epstein files. And of course, he’s coming hard after me to make an example to scare all the other Republicans before next week’s vote to release the Epstein files. It’s astonishing, really, how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level. But really, most Americans wish you would fight this hard to help the forgotten men and women of America who are fed up with foreign wars and foreign causes, are going broke trying to feed their families, and are losing hope of ever achieving the American dream.

What she is saying, that the president is trying to cover up the Epstein files, is not true. The president made absolutely clear on Sunday that that was not the case. He put out a post on Truth Social that read:

As I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the Fake News Media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat “Shutdown.” The Department of Justice has already turned over tens of thousands of pages to the Public on ‘Epstein,’ are looking at various Democrat operatives (Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.) and their relationship to Epstein, and the House Oversight Committee can have whatever they are legally entitled to, I DON’T CARE!

Over the weekend, talking with CNN’s Dana Bash, Greene slammed President Trump for calling her a traitor, even though she has spent the last several months beating up on President Trump over and over and over.

“The most hurtful thing he said, which is absolutely untrue, is he called me a traitor,” she said. “And that is so extremely wrong. And those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger.”

The new line that’s being retailed by people like Marjorie Taylor Greene is that criticism of her puts her life in danger.

Greene’s idea is that President Trump has not only betrayed MAGA because of Epstein, but also has betrayed MAGA — because she has a different definition of MAGA.

And this brings us to what’s really going on under the surface: Marjorie Taylor Greene started caring about the Epstein files in a serious way with regard to President Trump about the same time she got angry at the president’s foreign policy with regard to the Middle East.

She, Thomas Massie, and a wide variety of commentators seemed to get very exercised about President Trump and the Epstein files by claiming that President Trump is in thrall to Israel, and that the Epstein files is somehow indicate some sort of Mossad agency operation.

What made them mad is that President Trump is not anti-Israel in the same way they are.

I’m in favor of all Jeffrey Epstein files being released. I believe the president didn’t want all of them released because he was tired of talking about it, and because his own FBI had told him there was nothing there.

But the evidence-free nature of this supposed conspiracy is the reason it’s being trafficked by people like Marjorie Taylor Greene. She thinks President Trump is somehow controlled by the Israelis.

The Israeli government would likely have been on board with the idea of toppling the Iranian regime. The president, however, was not, and that was that. The people making arguments like Greene’s are the same people who suggested that bombing the Fordow nuclear reactor was somehow going to lead to World War III and full-scale American involvement in Middle East warfare.

Which, of course, never happened.

This is the reason why they’re focused on Epstein. Let’s be clear about this — it is not because of Epstein. The Epstein files have been out there. None of these people were screaming bloody murder about the Epstein files when Joe Biden was president of the United States.

President Trump comes on the scene, doesn’t do the foreign policy they want, and suddenly they start screaming at the top of their lungs about the Epstein files.

This is all part of an attempt to turn MAGA into something it isn’t.

Let’s be clear about what MAGA is: President Trump, period. End of story.

All attempts to reduce MAGA to some ideological form or fashion are bound to fail because President Trump is sui generis: He contains multitudes. Which means that many people who voted for President Trump disagree with him on a lot of issues.

I have disagreed with the president of the United States quite frequently on matters ranging from foreign policy to domestic policy. 

But only the president defines what MAGA is. He has always defined what MAGA is.

There’s a new movement afoot to try and cobble together pieces of Trump’s coalition and move forward into something different, but to claim the mantle of Trumpism without Trump is a bizarre and ridiculous move.