'What’s going on with Marjorie?' Trump is upset over breakup with his 'MAGA Queen'
As the once fiercely loyal Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) continues to turn against President Donald Trump in the wake of the government shutdown, the president, reports The Daily Beast, is not happy.
"Once the MAGA queen," The Daily Beast writes, Greene, is "slowly breaking away from her party," and Trump is not angry, but genuinely upset.
According to NBC sources, Trump reportedly asked two senior Republicans on a phone call, "What’s going on with Marjorie?”
Eyebrows started to raise when Greene turned down an invitation to the grand opening of Trump’s “Rose Garden Club" in September, with her office claiming she wasn't feeling well, The Daily Beast says.
Greene, who has pledged her allegiance to whom she deems her "favorite president," has shocked her partisan pals by taking her own stance, particularly on health care, and straying from Trump's path.
Republicans, Greene said to NBC, are "literally the reason why the government is shut down right now," clashing with her party's message that the Democratic Party is to blame for the political stalemate.
Greene stood firm in her belief, posting Monday on X, “No I’m not towing the party line on this, or playing loyalty games. I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year, my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to double, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district.”
A CBS News/YouGov poll found that more Americans blame Trump and Republicans in Congress for the shutdown than blame Democrats.
Trump endorsed Greene in the general election in 2020, writing on Twitter following her primary win, "Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives up — a real winner!"
Following the January 6, 2021 insurrection on the Capitol, Greene sent a text to Trump's then chief-of-staff calling for martial law to keep the president in power following the Jan. 6. riot at Capitol Hill, CNN reported.
The Daily Beast reports that Greene started to sour on Trump "after the White House talked her out of running for Senate, and one source said she felt disappointed when she did not receive the Homeland Security job she was seeking in the new Trump administration."
Greene's vocal push for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files have also separated her from Trump. She is one of the four Republicans who have signed a “discharge petition” to release the documents.
“What I am upset over is my party has no solution,” she told NBC. “It’s not something that we talk about frequently, but it is a reality for Americans, and it’s something that I don’t think we can ignore. I want, I really want to fix it.”
