There was a time when Marjorie Taylor Greene treated Donald Trump like he could do no wrong. She praised him constantly and stood by him on every MAGA issue. She even said she “loved” him in public. But that loyalty is gone now. The fallout over the Jeffrey Epstein documents has completely broken whatever bond they once had.
For months, Trump couldn’t understand why Greene suddenly started siding with Epstein’s victims instead of defending him. She kept calling for every Epstein file to be released. He kept asking his aides what was “wrong with Marjorie.” That confusion eventually turned into anger.
Everything exploded when Greene ignored pressure from the Oval Office and voted in favor of full transparency. Trump saw that as a personal betrayal. He crossed her name off his “friends” list and moved her to “traitors.” He even started calling her “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene.”
Then he unleashed his online supporters on her. Greene said the threats against her have gotten worse and that Trump is encouraging it. She sounded genuinely hurt when she said the attacks were being fueled by “the man I supported and helped get elected.”
Trump didn’t care at all. When CNN asked him about the threats, he brushed them aside. He said he didn’t think she was in any danger and added, “I don’t think anybody cares about her.”
It’s harsh, but Greene is now experiencing what many other Republicans already knew. Trump doesn’t care about loyalty. He doesn’t care about friends, coworkers, or even people who have spent years defending him. Trump cares about Trump, and if someone no longer serves him, he tosses them aside without a second thought—sometimes trying to destroy them in the process.
Still, Greene might come out of this with something to show voters. If the Epstein files do end up hurting Trump badly, she can say she stood by her principles instead of protecting him. She can claim she did what was right when others stayed silent out of fear.
Whether that actually helps her politically is another story. But one thing is clear: this feud is messy, dramatic, and wild, and everyone watching from the outside is treating it like a soap-opera plot playing out in real time.