I didn’t have this on my 2025 bingo card.
Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene have split up? What’s next? Will Tom Hanks divorce Rita Wilson? Will Sting ditch Trudie Styler and renounce tantric sex? Will the ice cream world gasp in shock after Ben & Jerry decide to go it alone?
The DJT and MTG alliance was once ironclad as Russia and China.
Now it is in shambles.
Time’s Person of the Year should be the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein. This depraved ghoul keeps coming back from the dead to hurl grenades into the MAGAverse.
He is posthumously dividing and conquering the red hats.
But let’s begin with an unexpected sentence: Marjorie Taylor Greene is putting on a clinic in political courage. The Georgia congresswoman has emerged from her QAnon past as a voice of reason? A moral compass? A principled warrior?
A southern magnolia impervious to Trump’s chainsaw of threats and insults?
At a press conference on Tuesday, Greene was flanked by Epstein survivors in advance of a congressional vote on releasing the files. Her demand for transparency is the main reason she and the doofus-in-chief ended up in Splitsville. She remains admirably unbowed.
The Hill quoted Greene’s pointed remarks on Tuesday: “I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for five, no, actually, six years, and I gave him my loyalty for free. I won my first election without his endorsement, beating eight men in a primary, and I’ve never owed him anything. But I fought for him, for the policies and for America first. And he called me a traitor for standing with these women and refusing to take my name off the discharge petition.”
And, somewhere, Melania was taking notes on how to eviscerate a psycho.
In addition to changing her middle name — “Marjorie Traitor Greene” — Trump has recently called her “wacky,” a “ranting lunatic,” “crazy,” “lightweight” and a “RINO,” his go-to smear for any Republican who hints the emperor has no clothes and is out of his orange gourd.
Give Greene an A-plus for the redemption arc she is surfing like an ocean swell.
For any Republican, crossing Trump is as dangerous as jumping into a tiger cage at the zoo. President Fangs never agrees to disagree. His instinct is to feast on the innards of anyone who crosses him, which is why he has already withdrawn his endorsement of Greene.
But calling her a traitor is more than bombast — it is putting her life at risk.
As Greene wrote on X: “President Trump’s unwarranted and vicious attacks against me were a dog whistle to dangerous radicals that could lead to serious attacks on me and my family.”
She was right. According to an incident report obtained by NBC News on Monday, police in Rome, Georgia, where Greene resides, received emails “in reference to the threat of assassination to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s son.”
One evil promise read: “I already have the plane ticket booked … MTG’s son (redacted) will have his life snuffed out soon … better watch his back.”
When asked about this on Sunday, Trump was typically dismissive and recalcitrant: “I don’t think her life is in danger. I don’t think, frankly, I don’t think anybody cares about her.”
You know who cares about her? Donald Trump. He cares that she has openly defied his ultimatums to shut up already about the Epstein files. He cares that one of his biggest cheerleaders is now calling BS when he lies about the affordability crisis or health care.
He cares that she accuses him of creating a rift in the MAGAverse that is tearing it asunder. He cares that she has painted him into a scene in which he looks as guilty as when O.J. pretended the glove did not fit.
Now it’s entirely possible my new crush on Marjorie will get crushed next week if she starts rambling incoherently about Jewish space lasers, rigged elections, false flag school shootings or Sept. 11 conspiracies. But for now, she is coming across as a woman transformed.
Her split with Trump is a road map for all Republicans.
Her recent appearances on “The View” and “Real Time With Bill Maher” showcased a politician who is more nuanced than the goofy caricature she sketched for herself off the jump.
This Trump mauling has left her circumspect and philosophical.
On Sunday, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Greene why she didn’t say anything about dangerous political discourse until she was attacked. Her response: “Dana, I think that’s fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I’m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics. It’s very bad for our country. And it’s been something I’ve thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated.”
That’s not just an apology. It is proof Donald Trump’s grip on his cult is loosening.
If Marjorie Taylor Greene can wiggle free, everyone can.
