Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is now openly suggesting she fears President Donald Trump could exploit the war with Iran as a pretext to cancel the 2028 presidential election.
Greene, once one of President Trumps most vocal defenders, has broken sharply with him over foreign policy, the handling of the Epstein files, and other disputes, and the president reportedly declined to support her floated Senate bid before she resigned from the House in January. As reported by Mediaite, the Georgia Republican is now positioning herself as a critic of what she views as a dangerous drift away from the America First principles that originally powered the MAGA movement.
The current conflict with Iran, launched in February in coordination with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has already fractured conservative media, with some populist commentators warning against another open-ended foreign entanglement. On Thursday, Greene joined Alex Jones himself a recent Trump critic over foreign policy and used the appearance to raise alarms about the presidents comments on wartime elections.
Greene highlighted a meeting last year in which President Trump pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Kyivs decision to suspend elections during Russias invasion. So you say, during the war, you cant have elections, Trump said in the meeting last year.
So, you say, during the war, you cant have elections. So let me just see. Three and a half years from now, so you mean if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections? Oh, thats good. Greene told Jones, Im concerned, adding that while he said it jokingly, she was not convinced it was entirely in jest. And he said it jokingly. But at the same time, knowing President Trump, I looked at that, and I thought, I dont know if hes saying it, joking.
Jones replied, I remember that clip, before blasting the remark by saying, Thats what psychos do. Greene then framed the presidents rhetoric as a deliberate trial balloon, warning that repetition can desensitize the public to ideas that would once have been unthinkable.
So, that type of behavior is someone planting an idea over and over, Greene responded. And again, he constantly says it so that he can normalize the idea and test the support and test peoples reactions. But saying it over and over and over again normalizes the idea. And I think its incredibly dangerous, and no one should ever accept it. She insisted that constitutional limits must hold regardless of foreign crises, declaring, Absolutely, absolutely not. There cannot be a third term, no. Thats against our laws. Thats against the Constitution. There is no third term. And if this country is at war, no, our election should not be canceled, absolutely not.
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