Patriot Brief
What Happened: Trump blasted Marjorie Taylor Greene after her 60 Minutes interview, saying she is “not AMERICA FIRST or MAGA” and accusing her of flipping her views out of bitterness.
Why It Matters: The public feud exposes a full political breakup inside the populist right, with Greene claiming Trump fueled death threats while Trump calls her confused and poorly prepared.
Bottom Line: The MAGA split is complete, and Trump is making sure voters know Greene’s brand no longer represents the America First movement.
President Donald Trump is firing back after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s headline-grabbing 60 Minutes interview, making it clear he no longer considers her part of the America First movement. What began as a slow political separation has now turned into a very public unraveling.
Greene, who announced she will resign from Congress in January, has claimed she’s leaving because “nothing ever gets better” for ordinary Americans. But her split from Trump accelerated when the president pulled his endorsement and later celebrated her decision to step down, calling it “great news” for the country.
Since then, Greene has continued to position herself as “America first,” but Trump is calling that branding dishonest. In a blistering Truth Social post, he argued, “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown (Green turns Brown under stress!) went BAD” after feeling “jilted” and that “her ideas are, NOW, really BAD.”
“Marjorie is not AMERICA FIRST or MAGA,” Trump said, arguing no genuine America First conservative flips their ideology “so fast.”
Trump also blasted 60 Minutes and correspondent Lesley Stahl, saying she “still owes me an apology” for insisting the Hunter Biden laptop story was “Russian disinformation.” He said Greene appeared “very poorly prepared,” “confused,” and making “many really stupid statements.”
Greene, for her part, claims Trump’s rhetoric has had dangerous consequences. She told 60 Minutes that Trump’s critiques triggered “direct death threats” and that Republicans are afraid to speak out because they fear a “nasty Truth Social post.”
She also accused Trump of falling short on domestic priorities: “For an ‘America First’ president, the number one focus should have been domestic policy, and it wasn’t.”
With Greene exiting Congress and Trump tightening his grip on the movement he created, the divorce appears final. And neither side is holding back.
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