There’s a fight going on inside the Republican Party right now, and it’s being conducted almost entirely through nicknames.
Trump fired the opening shot Friday night after learning Tucker Carlson had hosted Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rep. Thomas Massie and former counterterrorism official Joe Kent at his Maine home to talk about building a third party. He went straight to Truth Social. “Tucker Carlson just met with Lightweight ‘Former’ Congressman, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene, LOSERS ALL!” he wrote
He kept going, and Carlson took the worst of it.
“Tucker’s ‘Views’ have fallen through the floor, and will only get worse. Nobody cares about him any longer in that he has become totally irrelevant, and happens to be, surprisingly, a very Low I.Q. individual. He could barely get out of College, and maybe he didn’t, but only really dumb people can’t make it through that wonderful four year time in life!” Trump wrote.
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He added that Carlson “should be required to take a cognitive test” before running for office, then wrapped it up with a line built to be quoted: “What a team this would be, THREE LOSERS, and a pocketful of change!”
Greene hit back the next day with several insults lined up, not just one.
Her post on X worked through Trump as a “Neocon puppet,” “not a Christian at all,” an “internet troll,” and, in the phrase that’s now doing the most work, a “false little god.” “Trump now calls me a traitor because instead of bowing down to him like some false little god, I stood up and fought for women who were raped as teenagers and abused by the richest most powerful men in the world, friends of Donald Trump,” she wrote, pointing to her role pushing for full release of the Epstein files.
She went on to argue Trump has become the exact thing he claims to oppose. “He attacks us with such vitriol because we actually are everything he claimed to be, conservative and America First, and he has proven as President that he is nothing more than a neocon puppet for Israel, corporations, big donors with special interests, and his dear friends in the Epstein class.” She closed the post with a prayer that Trump could “humble himself in the eyes of the Lord and turn to God with sincere faith and repentance for his sins.”
I wonder if it was being called a traitor at his own rally yesterday that caused him to dictate his lies and insult laden attack on Tucker, Thomas, and I, while he flew back on the plane.
It’s also the bad polling that I’m sure he’s seen by now.He attacks us with such vitriol… pic.twitter.com/tM9e7PqTg0
— Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@FmrRepMTG) August 22, 2026
Trump’s cognitive-test line lands awkwardly next to numbers from earlier this year.
A UMass Lowell poll put Carlson’s overall favorability at 17%, against 38% unfavorable. Trump didn’t come out ahead in the same survey either, sitting at 36% favorable and 54% unfavorable, which means the man questioning Carlson’s mental fitness is currently less popular than the man he’s calling irrelevant.
The 2028 numbers aren’t kind to Carlson specifically, regardless of how that comparison shakes out. RealClearPolling has him at just 1.6% for the Republican nomination, well behind JD Vance’s 40.4% and Marco Rubio’s 22.6%, and Polymarket gives him a 1% shot at the presidency outright.
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