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Trump feud with Greene could foreshadow more MAGA rifts ahead of 2026 elections

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November 16, 2025

When President Trump addressed Congress earlier this year, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was there holding an American flag and wearing a red baseball cap that said “Trump was right about everything.”

- By Chris MEGERIAN AND JEFF AMY

Trump feud with Greene could foreshadow more MAGA rifts ahead of 2026 elections

CELAL GUNES Anadolu/Getty Images PRESIDENT TRUMP says he would support a primary challenge against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. When President Trump addressed Congress earlier this year, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was there holding an American flag and wearing a red baseball cap that said "Trump was right about everything." After the speech, he gave her a kiss and she beamed.

Trump was back in power and Greene was positioned to be one of his most ardent political foot soldiers with Republicans controlling all levers of power in Washington.

Their alliance didn't last the year. Now it has fractured in an explosive feud that could foreshadow more rifts within Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement before next year's midterm elections.

In recent weeks, Greene has escalated her criticism of Trump's focus on foreign policy over what she has said should be an agenda that concentrates on Americans, as well as his reluctance to release more documents involving the Jeffrey Epstein case. On Friday, the Republican president said he would support a primary challenge against the Georgia congresswoman.

"All I see 'Wacky' Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!" Trump wrote on his social media platform as his motorcade whisked him from Air Force One to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm. Beach, Fla.

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