Marjorie Taylor Greene has a blunt message for her former party: If Republicans want a future, President Trump must go.
The former Georgia congresswoman, who resigned from Congress last year after breaking with Mr. Trump over the Epstein files, has emerged as one of the president’s sharpest critics. She accused him of abandoning key promises, pointing in particular to the joint U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran that pushed gasoline prices higher and deepened voters’ concerns about affordability.
“If the GOP wants any chance in the future, it will have to kick Donald Trump out of the party,” Ms. Greene wrote Wednesday on X after Republicans were routed in the midterm elections. “He has absolutely destroyed it and the current state of the GOP is a warmongering, corrupt, corporate focused, entity that does not at all reflect the conservative values of its voters.”
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Other Republican critics of Mr. Trump also seized on the party’s massive midterm losses.
Former Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, who lost his reelection primary bid to Trump-backed Ed Gallrein, said many Republicans may be second-guessing their support for the president’s foreign policy.
“I wonder how many of my colleagues would like a chance to go back and change their vote on my Iran War Powers Resolution in March?” he said on X.
Mr. Massie also said voters had used the midterms to hold “Republicans accountable for betraying their promises.
“All Republicans had to do was: 1. Put Americans First 2. Not start another war 3. Prosecute sex traffickers,” he said.
Ms. Greene also took aim at former colleagues who refused to stand up to the president, predicting that few, if any, will challenge him now.
“And those in his administration are going to defend him and stay loyal in hopes for pardons,” she said. “They will probably blame everyone and everything else and continue to worship Trump.”
She said if that remains the party’s course, Republicans could find themselves in the political wilderness for years.
“And if that remains their course, the Republican Party won’t be able to win nationally for decades,” she said.
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