GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday blasted President Donald Trump for his comments about the murders of Rob and Michele Reiner, as she predicted more Republicans will follow her lead in breaking with Trump.
“I thought that statement was absolutely completely beneath the office of the president of the United States, without class, and it was just wrong,” Greene told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source.”
Trump on Monday in a Truth Social post blasted the beloved director for his left-leaning politics and suggested Reiner had brought his death on himself.
“The MAGA faithful reacted strongly and called it,” she said.
Greene, who is retiring from Congress in January after siding with Trump, suggested that cracks in the Republican Party are growing.
“I think the dam is breaking,” she warned, pointing to recent Republican standoffs with Trump.
Last week, 13 House Republicans – in a rare rebuke of the President – voted with Democrats to restore collective bargaining rights that had been stripped from about a million federal workers earlier this year.
“Those 13 Republicans who voted to overturn his executive order last week, literally that very evening put on their tuxedos and evening ballgowns and went to the White House Christmas party. That’s pretty brave,” Greene told Collins.
In the same week, Indiana Senate Republicans rejected Trump’s push to redraw the state’s congressional districts to produce two more seats in favor of the GOP.
“This is a sign where you’re seeing the Republicans, they’re entering the campaign phase for 2026, which is a big sign that lame duck season has begun,” Greene said. “He has real problems with the Republicans within the House and the Senate who will be breaking with him on more things to come.”
The Georgia Republican who has been one of Trump’s staunchest supporters before their recent fallout warned that two other issues threaten to derail her party’s midterm election hopes — affordability, which Trump has called a “Democratic hoax” and health insurance.
CNN previously reported that many Republicans worry that Trump is missing the mark on both subjects, as he continues to insist that the economy is getting stronger. “What I would like to see from the president is empathy for the American people,” Greene said. “Donald Trump is a billionaire, and he is the president of the United States. When he looks at a camera and says that affordability is a hoax and tries to make nothing of inflation, he is speaking to Americans who are suffering, and have been suffering for many years now, and are having a hard time coping.”
Trump announced that he will give a live address from the White House on Wednesday evening.
Greene said the president should focus on the voters and his campaign promises. “He needs to stop the revolving door of foreign leaders in his White House. He needs to stop embracing ISIS al Qaeda terrorists who were once wanted by the United States who have now become the Syrian president, and stop calling people like me traitors.”
The future for the Grand Old Party, Greene fears, is looking bleak.
“I think the midterms will be very difficult for the Republicans,” she lamented. “I’m one of those people who is ready to admit the truth and say that I don’t see the Republicans winning the midterms right now.”
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