Just a day after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene revealed plans to step away from Congress, President Donald Trump said he would be happy to see her re-enter politics.
On Friday, Nov. 21, Greene, 51, announced that she will resign from her role representing Georgia’s 14th congressional district in 2026. The next day, Trump, 79, weighed in during a brief phone interview with NBC News, suggesting that a comeback could be tough but not impossible.
“It’s not going to be easy for” Greene to revive her political career, he said on Saturday, Nov. 22. Still, he added, “I’d love to see that.” Trump also noted that, for now, “she’s got to take a little rest.”
The remarks were not Trump’s first reaction to Greene’s decision. Shortly after her announcement on Friday, he told ABC News senior political correspondent Rachel Scott that the resignation was “great news for the country.” He said he hadn’t been warned in advance, but repeated that her departure was “great” and added, “I think she should be happy.”
Trump later addressed the news again on Truth Social, taking aim at Greene with a string of insults before ending on a more appreciative note.
“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.’ Her relationship with the WORST Republican Congressman in decades, Tom Massie of Kentucky, also known as Rand Paul Jr. because he votes against the Republican Party (and really good legislation!), did not help her,” Trump wrote.
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“For some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went BAD,” he continued. “Nevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie, and thank her for her service to our Country! President DJT.”
Greene’s announcement came via a lengthy video posted on X on Friday, where she said her resignation will take effect Jan. 5, 2026. In the video, she criticized fellow Republicans over their role in what she described as the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, while highlighting her conservative record on issues such as gun rights and abortion.
She also made clear she no longer wanted to be placed in the position of defending Trump, claiming he had “tried to destroy me” and pointing to his decision to withdraw his endorsement of her exactly one week earlier. “I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better,” she said.
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The resignation follows months of growing public friction between Greene and Trump, driven by her increasingly pointed criticism of his leadership. On Nov. 10, she slammed Trump’s foreign-policy focus following his White House meeting with Ahmad al-Sharaa, the president of Syria’s interim government. That same day, Trump told reporters that Greene had “lost her way,” adding that he must view the presidency through a global lens, “not locally.”
On Nov. 16, Trump referred to Greene as a “traitor” when asked about reports that she was receiving death threats — a label he repeated in his Nov. 22 Truth Social post.
“Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene. I don’t think her life is in danger, I don’t think,” Trump said at the time. “Frankly, I don’t think anybody cares about her.”
