Marjorie Taylor Greene’s sudden plan to leave Congress after years of positioning herself as one of Donald Trump’s most loyal defenders is sending shockwaves through Republican circles. Her farewell message, steeped in frustration with the MAGA movement she once championed, has some GOP watchers wondering whether her break could spark something bigger inside the president’s base.
Former GOP speechwriter Tim Miller called the moment a major warning sign during an interview with Nicolle Wallace on MSN NOW. When she asked, “Your thoughts on this moment for Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene?” Miller pointed to a pattern he’s seen over the years.
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“Look, you laid out nicely in the beginning how this is similar to how some have, you know, the Republican Party has spoken out against Trump and then retired in the past,” he said. “And we’re seeing that trend continue, which at some level shows that he still has a hold over the party. I think the element that’s different that is most interesting is the language that she used in stepping aside.”
Miller said Greene’s remarks feel unlike previous GOP departures. “I’ll leave it to … psychologists to, like, determine what is happening in her brain and how serious she is about this and what’s exactly motivating it,” he said. “But it’s just — taking the language at face value, she is basically saying that I wanted to do work on behalf of the MAGA base that Donald Trump had promised, you know, he was going to work for, and I couldn’t do it because Congress was in session and because the elites within the party, you know, have succumbed to, you know, the influence game of Washington to the Deep State, to the elites, right?”
He added that her message echoes long-running MAGA grievances about a so-called “uniparty,” but with a twist. “Well, now, Marjorie Taylor Greene is saying that’s Donald Trump,” he said. “You know, he had promised you that he was going to be different. He’s going to be an outsider that was going to go after those institutions. But he’s been co-opted by them. And he wants, and he likes partying with them.”
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Although Greene didn’t name Trump directly, Miller argued her meaning was obvious. He said that makes this moment fundamentally different from past GOP figures who broke away from Trump from the outside.
“She didn’t explicitly say Trump in her farewell manifesto,” he noted. “But, like, in the statement, that’s very clear what she’s talking about. And that is powerful. And that is very different from the other people that have separated from Donald Trump in the past, because she’s coming at him from the place of his core base of support and his core strength. And if even 5 percent of the MAGA base agree with her … that is crippling to Donald Trump’s power. That is the first time that he would actually lose the people that powered his rise.”