‘Marjorie went bad’: Trump calls Greene a ‘traitor’ after she announces resignation

“Nevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie, and thank her for her service to our Country!” Trump added.

Greene, once one of Trump’s most outspoken and loyal defenders, announced late Friday that she will leave office on 5 January 2026. In a lengthy statement on X, she said she had grown disillusioned with Washington’s “Political Industrial Complex,” accusing both parties of using Americans as “pawns in an endless game of division.”

“Nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman,” she wrote, arguing that the system was designed to produce gridlock, anger, and political theatrics rather than results.

Greene also admitted that Trump’s recent public break — in which he called her “wacky” and “a ranting lunatic” — was “hurtful,” but insisted her faith remained grounding. “My self-worth is not defined by a man,” she wrote, “but instead by God who created everything in existence.”

The resignation marks a dramatic fracture in a relationship once central to Trump-era Republican politics. Greene, who built her national profile aligning herself closely with Trump’s most hardline rhetoric, exits Congress at a moment when her political influence had visibly declined and as Trump appears determined to distance himself from former loyalists he no longer needs.

“I’m going back to the people I love,” she said in her farewell note.