When Donald Trump called Marjorie Taylor Greene a traitor, he probably did not anticipate she would spend the following months making a public case for why the label fits him better.
On Piers Morgan Uncensored this week, she did precisely that, calling the president of the United States a traitor on international television and offering a detailed explanation for every word of it.
Once among Trump’s most devoted defenders in Congress, Greene was no longer reading from the same script. “In my day to day life, Trump calling me a traitor has had zero effect, because everyone knows the definition of a traitor. A traitor is someone who is working on behalf of a foreign country.” She then made the application explicit: “I would argue that is what Donald Trump has been doing with this war in Iran.”
Iran has been the sharpest point of contention between Greene and the president since their relationship fell apart.
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Her position on the war has remained consistent. “He’s been working on behalf of Israel, not America. This war has not helped Americans one single bit. As a matter of fact, it’s cost Americans tens of millions of dollars — not only to their pocketbook, what they’ve had to pay at the gas pump and inflation, but also what it’s costing them in the budget… Congress having to spend billions of dollars more because of his bombing campaign.” She tied it all together with a closing line that needed no further elaboration: “Traitors work for foreign countries and not the United States of America.”
The rupture between the two, however, began long before the Iran debate reached its boiling point.
To understand how Greene arrived here, you have to go back to her campaign demanding that the Justice Department release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. That was the moment Trump decided she had become more liability than asset. He withdrew his political backing, threw his weight behind a primary challenger, and Greene resigned from Congress in November 2025, leaving with a statement that captured just how badly the relationship had deteriorated: “I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better.”
Even after leaving Congress, the relationship continued to unravel.
Greene said she reached out to Trump after death threats against her family escalated to include one of her children. The response she described to Piers Morgan was not what most people would expect from a former ally. “He basically blamed me. He had no compassion for death threats on my children. He blamed me basically that if my son were to get killed, it would be my fault.”
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