Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed during an Instagram livestream that President Donald Trump personally blocked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from launching a Senate run — and that the move sparked what she called Greene’s “revenge tour” against the GOP establishment.
“Here’s some tea for you,” Ocasio-Cortez told her followers. “MTG wanted to run for Senate in Georgia. She wanted to be the Republican nominee. She was gearing up for that statewide race, and Trump told her no. Trump Land shut it down — and she’s been on a revenge tour ever since.”
Greene had indeed been rumored to be eyeing a challenge to Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff next year but announced in May that she would stay in the House. “Even with a few good Republicans in the Senate, nothing changes,” she posted on X. “Jon Ossoff isn’t the real problem… he’s just a pawn.”
Since then, Greene has repeatedly clashed with GOP leaders — blasting them for their handling of the ongoing government shutdown and for what she calls weak healthcare priorities. She’s also broken with the party on foreign policy, calling Israel’s military campaign in Gaza a “genocide” and a “humanitarian crisis.”
On The View Tuesday, Greene downplayed any suggestion that her criticism has fractured her relationship with Trump. “I do love him,” she said. “When I ran for Congress in 2020, I ran criticizing Republicans and Democrats equally, because I come from a working-class family.”
Still, Greene has warned that her party’s failure to ease inflation and improve Americans’ daily lives could cost them their House majority. “I can’t see into the future, but I see Republicans losing the House if Americans are still going paycheck to paycheck,” she told Semafor. “They’ll definitely be going into the midterms looking through the lens of their bank account.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s claim adds a new twist to the growing rift between Greene and GOP leadership — suggesting that personal ambition and political frustration may both be fueling the Georgia congresswoman’s outspoken turn.