There was once a time when Donald Trump and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene were as thick as thieves. Then, she made some comments that didn’t quite align with Trump’s and the honeymoon was over. Well, sort of. When you’re in Trump’s inner circle, the power dynamic and hierarchy seems to ebb and flow depending on how Trump feels.
In a TikTok video posted by CNN, a reporter asks Trump how he feels about Greene’s comments about her wanting him to work on more domestic issues rather than international ones.
She also says that Greene said grocery prices have risen, whereas Trump claims they have gotten lower. Trump says that Greene has “lost her way.”
@cnn CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked President Donald Trump in the White House Monday to respond to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Georgia) comments that he should focus more on domestic issues rather than foreign policy.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene said she doesn’t follow everything Trump says and does.
In the CNN TikTok video, Trump also says he has to treat his presidency as a “worldwide situation.” He then praises himself for making sure that wars are not coming to the United States because of his focus on countries outside of the U.S.
But he also accuses Greene of going to the dark side. Well, not really, but he does claim that she is working for Democrats rather than Republicans.
“When somebody like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who’s now catering to the other side, I don’t know, I guess she’s got some kind of an act going, but I’m surprised at her,” Trump says. “But when somebody like Marjorie goes over and starts making statements like that, it shows you she doesn’t know.”
Later, Trump says that “the world is the United States.” Before we all have a headache trying to unpack that little nugget, let’s bring the focus back to the apparent rift between Trump and Greene.
In October 2025, Greene told NBC News that her work is with Congress before anything or anyone else.
“I’m not some sort of blind slave to the president, and I don’t think anyone should be,” she told the outlet. She added, “I’m not elected by the president. I’m not elected by anyone that works in the White House. I’m elected by my district. That’s who I work for, and I got elected without the president’s endorsement, and, you know, I think that has served me really well.”
The Epstein files MUST be released! Every name, every page, every connection.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 13, 2025
I fully support our @GOPOversight’s investigation, and I’m glad to see the discharge petition has officially reached the 218 signatures needed!! Now it’s headed to the House floor for a vote.… pic.twitter.com/cG0qZ6F594
Because of her open criticisms of some of Trump’s bigger decisions, there is trouble in paradise when it comes to Trump. Clearly, he doesn’t love her clap backs, even if those clap backs have come in the form of standing up for democracy in a way that Greene believes she should rather than she Trump may have expected her to.
After Trump spoke about Greene losing her way, she might have felt the heat a bit. Because on Nov. 13, 2025, Greene posted on X (formerly Twitter) about the Epstein files and about the leaked emails from Epstein about Trump. She wrote in her post that Democrats are launching “political smears” against Trump. She also defended him and wrote that he had no role in the “horrific acts” that Epstein’s survivors testified about.
Will that be enough to make Daddy Trump accept the congresswoman back into the fold? That might be the long game for her.
