In her resignation statement, Greene said that “standing up for an American woman who was raped at age 14” should not result in President Trump calling her a “traitor.”
Published November 22, 2025
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right figurehead and longtime ally of Donald Trump who recently had a dramatic falling out with the US president, has announced that she will resign from her seat in Congress.
With Congress “largely ignored” under the Trump administration, Greene posted a lengthy resignation statement on social media late Friday, saying “loyalty should go both ways.”
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“As a member of Congress, I have always represented ordinary American men and women, which is why I was despised in Washington, D.C., and why I never fit in,” the 51-year-old congressman from Georgia said in a video statement.
“I plan to resign from my position on January 5, 2026,” she said.
Greene said she didn’t want her supporters and family to endure “a primary filled with bitter hatred against me by the president we all fought for.”
President Trump responded to the news, saying, “I think it’s great news for the country.”
ABC News reported that President Trump said in an interview, “It’s a wonderful thing.”
My message to Georgia’s 14th Congressional District and America.
thank you. pic.twitter.com/tSoHCeAjn1— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) November 22, 2025
Previously a symbol of Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, Greene has publicly fallen out with Trump, with the president announcing earlier this month that he was withdrawing all support for the congresswoman whom he described as “‘Quirky’ Marjorie.”
Greene has cited her outspoken advocacy for releasing government files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as the cause of her rift with Trump.
President Trump has dismissed the Epstein scandal as a “Democratic hoax” and is struggling with uproar among his MAGA base over a U-turn on a pre-election promise to release government documents related to the case.
But under increasing pressure from within his own party and within the Democratic Party, President Trump signed a bill this week to release the Epstein files after a motion to release them passed overwhelmingly in both houses of Congress.
Greene addressed the Epstein controversy in her resignation statement.
“Standing up for American women who were raped at age 14, trafficked, and exploited by wealthy and powerful men should not lead to me being called a traitor or being threatened by the president of the United States for whom I fought,” Greene said.
Greene also became the first Republican this year to call the attack on Gaza by U.S. ally Israel a genocide.
After Trump withdrew his support for Greene earlier this month, he posted multiple posts on his Truth Social platform attacking the congresswoman as a “flippant” and even a “traitor” to the Republican Party.
Since then, Green said he has been the target of a series of threats.
Greene’s move to resign from Congress before the 2026 midterm elections is the clearest sign yet of growing divisions in the MAGA world, coming on the back of strong Democratic victories in this month’s off-year elections and a warm meeting early Friday morning at President Trump’s White House with leftist New York Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani.
