Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene engage in war of words over Epstein investigation

Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene engage in war of words over Epstein investigation

 

The president has vowed to back a primary challenger against Greene.

 

By Lauren Peller, Hannah Demissie, Isabella Murray, Lalee Ibssa , and Ivan Pereira

November 15, 2025, 8:48 PM

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Trump went so far as to withdraw his support for Greene and said he would support a primary challenger.

 

"Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!), betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned Left," Trump said in a social media post Saturday morning as part of an online back and forth with Greene.

 

Greene said Saturday in an X post that she had received death threats.

 

"As a Republican, who overwhelmingly votes for President Trump‘s bills and agenda, his aggression against me which also fuels the venomous nature of his radical internet trolls (many of whom are paid), this is completely shocking to everyone," she said.

 

The conflict began this week after Greene questioned in an NBC News interview if Trump was focused on domestic affairs.

 

"No one cares about the foreign countries. No one cares about the never-ending amount of foreign leaders coming to the White House every single week," she said in the interview.

 

On Friday, Trump responded to her words, telling reporters aboard Air Force One, "she is a very different figure," and that he was no longer "a fan."

 

 "Something happened to her over the last period of a month or two where she changed. I think politically, I think that her constituents aren't going to be happy," he said. "But when she says, 'Don't go overseas.' If I didn't go overseas, we might be in a war right now with China."

 

Trump added he would consider backing a primary challenger and in a social media post later in the night withdrew his endorsement of the congresswoman.

 

He wrote, "all I see 'Wacky' Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN."

 

"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," the president added.

 

Greene pushed back against Trump Friday night in an X post, contending that the president was upset with her after she texted him about the ongoing Epstein investigation.

 

"And of course he’s coming after me hard to make an example to scare all the other Republicans before next weeks vote to release the Epstein files," she said. "It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level."

 

"I never thought that fighting to release the Epstein files, defending women who were victims of rape, and fighting to expose the web of rich powerful elites would have caused this, but here we are," Greene said in an X post Saturday morning "And it truly speaks for itself."

 

The president, who spent Saturday morning golfing in Florida, slammed Greene in a social media post arguing she, "became the RINO that we all know she always was. Just another Fake politician."