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Just one day after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her resignation, President Donald Trump said he would “love to see” her return to politics.
On Friday, Nov. 21, Greene, 51, announced she will resign from her post as representative for Georgia’s 14th congressional district in 2026. The following day, Trump, 79, reacted to the news during a short phone interview with NBC News.
He told the outlet on Saturday, Nov. 22, that “it’s not going to be easy for” Greene to revive her career in politics. But, he added, “I’d love to see that.”
Trump also said that in the meantime, “she’s got to take a little rest.”
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The president’s comments to NBC News were not his first about Greene’s resignation.
Shortly after she announced her decision on Friday, he told ABC News senior political correspondent Rachel Scott over the phone, “I think it’s great news for the country. It’s great.” When asked if he had “any heads up” about the resignation, Trump said he did not, but reiterated that it is “great” news.
“Nah, it doesn’t matter, you know, but I think it’s great,” he told Scott. “I think she should be happy.”
On Saturday, Trump also reacted to news of Greene’s decision to resign in a Truth Social post, lobbing several insults at the congresswoman before stating that he “will always appreciate” her nonetheless.
“Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown, because of PLUMMETING Poll Numbers, and not wanting to face a Primary Challenger with a strong Trump Endorsement (where she would have no chance of winning!), has decided to call it ‘quits.’ Her relationship with the WORST Republican Congressman in decades, Tom Massie of Kentucky, also known as Rand Paul Jr. because he votes against the Republican Party (and really good legislation!), did not help her,” Trump wrote in the post.
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“For some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went BAD,” he continued. “Nevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie, and thank her for her service to our Country! President DJT.”
Greene made the surprise announcement in a lengthy video statement on X on Friday.
Her resignation will be effective Jan. 5, 2026, she said in the video, which also saw her criticize her fellow Republicans for their participation in the longest government shutdown in American history, and tout her conservative voting record on issues like gun rights, abortion and more.
She also said that she did not want to be asked to defend Trump, who she claimed “tried to destroy me” — and who announced that he would withdraw his endorsement of Greene exactly one week earlier. “I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better,” she said in the video.
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Greene’s resignation announcement comes amid months of public tension between the congresswoman and Trump, fueled by her increasingly critical rhetoric.
On Nov. 10, Greene criticized Trump’s current focus on foreign policy amid the president’s White House meeting with Ahmad al-Sharaa, the president of Syria’s interim government. The same day, Trump told reporters that Greene has “lost her way, I think. But I have to view the presidency as a worldwide situation, not locally.”
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On Nov. 16, Trump called Greene a “traitor” when he was asked whether he was aware that she was receiving “death threats,” an insult he later repeated in his Nov. 22 Truth Social post reacting to her resignation.
“Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene. I don’t think her life is in danger, I don’t think,” Trump told a group of reporters at the time. “Frankly, I don’t think anybody cares about her.”
