Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene escalated her break with conservative activists this week, after firing back at Republicans who urged her to reconsider her resignation from Congress.
Greene announced last week that she will step down in January, after a falling-out with President Donald Trump.
The Georgia Republican once stood among Trump’s strongest allies, but she recently diverged from party lines, criticizing the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, healthcare funds, foreign policy, and the federal shutdown.
Highlights
- Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she will resign from Congress in January after escalating conflicts with GOP members and Trump allies.
- Greene criticized Republican men urging her to stay, accusing them of misogyny and calling for real political action beyond online posts.
- Her fallout with Trump began after she pushed to release the Epstein files, leading him to call her a traitor and withdraw his endorsement.
MTG fired back at Republicans who urged her to reconsider her resignation from Congress
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The latest confrontation erupted on Tuesday when Mike Cernovich, a right-wing personality, urged Greene to finish her term. “You need to serve out your full term,” he wrote on X.
Greene condemned the message in a long rant the next day.
“Oh I haven’t suffered enough for you while you post all day behind a screen? Do I have to stay until I’m assassinated like our friend Charlie Kirk. Will that be good enough for you then?” she wrote, referencing the September killing of the Turning Point USA founder, a close ally of the MAGA movement.
“S*** posting on the internet all day isn’t fighting. Get off YOUR ass and run for Congress. I fought harder than anyone in the real arena, not social media. Put down your little pebbles and put your money where your mouth is,” she continued.
Greene escalated her anger an hour later, posting a screenshot of her earlier message and aiming her frustration at “Republican men.”
“Typical of Republican men telling a woman to ‘shut up get back in the kitchen and fix me something to eat.’ F*** you in the sweetest most southern drawl I can enunciate,” she wrote.
Greene added, “I have been trying tell all you ‘men’ that our kitchen pantry is empty with spider webs, our house has been ransacked, the windows and doors are broken and busted, and the greedy rich bastards have twisted your minds into a sick state that you all continue in the two party toxic political system that acts like college football playoffs yet is burying you and your children and their children and their children in a pine box in a shallow grave.”
“Get off your ass and fix your own damn food and clean up the kitchen when you’re done,” she concluded.
Greene’s relationship with Trump deteriorated sharply this month when she became one of only four Republicans to sign a discharge petition forcing a vote to release the Epstein files.
Greene ranted about Republican men telling women to 'shut up' and 'get back in the kitchen'
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Trump lashed out, labeling her “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene” and withdrawing his endorsement. After the petition succeeded, Trump promoted the legislation, which quickly passed Congress and became law.
“Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for,” Greene said in her resignation statement.
She had previously written on X that Trump’s posts criticizing her had led to real threats on her life.
“I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. The man I supported and helped get elected,” she said.
Her decision arrives as House Republicans cling to a razor-thin majority. Greene’s departure early next year will shrink Speaker Mike Johnson’s already fragile vote margin in the House of Representatives.
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This could complicate Republican efforts in the House. Several upcoming special elections could narrow the divide even further before Georgia schedules a contest to replace her.
“I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better,” Greene has said.