Marjorie Taylor Greene’s transformation from Donald Trump’s most visible congressional ally to one of his most vehement public critics reached its most dramatic point this week when the former Georgia congresswoman called for the president to be removed from office via the 25th Amendment after he threatened on Truth Social to annihilate an entire Iranian civilisation. The exchange, spread across several days of increasingly escalatory social media posts, represents the sharpest illustration yet of the fracture that has opened between Trump and parts of the MAGA base over the Iran war.
The sequence of events began on Easter Sunday, April 6, when Trump posted on Truth Social at approximately 6am: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F—in’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”
Greene responded within two hours. “On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted,” she wrote, posting a screenshot. “Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness.” She added: “I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit.”
The confrontation intensified on Tuesday April 7 when Trump posted: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” Within minutes, Greene posted in capital letters: “25TH AMENDMENT!!! Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness.”
By Thursday, Greene had expanded on her position in a CNN interview with Pamela Brown and Wolf Blitzer, explaining her reasoning in terms that made clear this was not a passing reaction but a considered political break. “How can any person that is mentally stable call for an entire civilization of people to be murdered, to be wiped out, to never come back again?” she said.
“That’s what the president called for, and that shows that there’s serious instability in his thinking that he would not only say that in a private room, perhaps with his advisers, but actually go to his megaphone, his Truth Social, and post that for the entire country and the entire world.” When the hosts asked whether it was the “final straw” for her, her answer was unequivocal: “Because it’s absolute madness.”
Greene’s opposition to the Iran war began the day it started, on February 28, when she posted a nearly 700-word statement on X accusing Trump of betraying his campaign promise of no more foreign wars. Her criticism has intensified at every escalation point since, making her one of the few voices on the right willing to consistently and publicly break with the president on military policy. She has been joined by Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, though neither has called for 25th Amendment invocation.
The political context around Greene’s comments is complicated by the special election runoff in her former Georgia congressional district, where Trump-endorsed Republican Clay Fuller is facing Democrat Shawn Harris. Fuller won Trump’s endorsement in February. Greene’s escalating criticism of the president runs directly counter to the message Trump supporters are trying to send in that race, which Cook Political Report still rates as solidly Republican. Greene herself has predicted the Iran war will cost Republicans the midterms, pointing to a Texas primary in which Democrats turned out in higher numbers than Republicans as an early warning signal.
Trump has not publicly responded to Greene’s 25th Amendment call, which represents a convergence with language Democrats including Jasmine Crockett and more than 70 other lawmakers have also employed this week. The fact that the same constitutional remedy is now being invoked by voices from both the far left and the MAGA-adjacent right reflects the unusual breadth of the political coalition forming around opposition to Trump’s Iran war conduct.
