‘The bully is becoming a lame duck’: Ex-Trump loyalist goes scorched earth on president

Outgoing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) painted a bleak picture for President Donald Trump Saturday, labeling him as a “lame duck” who’s lost his grip on power.

Once among Trump’s most loyal supporters, Greene had a public spat with Trump amid her scrutiny of the U.S.-Israel relationship, and during her push for the Trump administration to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein. Trump would ultimately pull his endorsement for Greene and pledge to back a GOP opponent before Greene announced her retirement from Congress.

Having severed all ties with Trump, Greene took to social media Saturday to celebrate what she described as a “freeing” feeling after having “[broken] the chains from the bully.”

“The rising grassroots movement, totally outside political control, is the unstoppable collision of the right and the left who will fight with fury for America and OUR future and children’s future and our grandchildren’s future,” Greene wrote in a social media post on X.

“They’ve divided us for far too long and it’s destroyed too much. I refuse to be divided any longer. I refuse to hate my fellow Americans. I love my fellow Americans and I love my country. The old guard is dying, the bully is becoming a lame duck, and real America is rising.”

Trump first attacked Greene amid her calls for the Trump administration to release its files on Epstein, calling her a “ranting lunatic” and encouraging a Georgian to run against her in the upcoming Republican primary election. He also said that Greene had called him repeatedly, and suggested she was upset that he didn’t answer all of her calls.

Greene dispute Trump’s assertion that she called him repeatedly, and argued that instead, it was her support of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that “sent [Trump] over the edge.”

“It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level,” Greene wrote on social media last month.