MTG slams ‘false little god’ Trump for roasting Tucker Carlson’s MAGA group

Former Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene launched a lengthy attack against Donald Trump on social media on Saturday, accusing the president of thin-skinned behavior and of straying from his MAGA ideals after he criticized her involvement in a new political group led by Tucker Carlson.

Carlson, the longtime conservative commentator and former Fox News host, recently said he would no longer support the GOP and pledged to launch a third party. Earlier this month, Carlson hosted Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie, the former Georgia congresswoman, and others at his home, where they reportedly urged him to run for president in 2028.

And in response to the president calling this a gathering of “LOSERS,” Greene took to social media to label Trump a “Neocon puppet,” “not a Christian at all,” an “internet troll” and a “false little god.”

Greene said that Trump’s post to Truth Social was motivated in part by the president’s “bad polling,” and alleged that his dislike of her and Representative Massie was due to their support for the full release of the Epstein files.

“Trump now calls me a traitor because instead of bowing down to him like some false little god, I stood up and fought for women who were raped as teenagers and abused by the richest most powerful men in the world, friends of Donald Trump,” she wrote on X.

“He attacks us with such vitriol because we actually are everything he claimed to be, conservative and America First, and he has proven as President that he is nothing more than a neocon puppet for Israel, corporations, big donors with special interests, and his dear friends in the Epstein class,” the post continued.

This came after President Donald Trump posted a scathing attack on Carlson on social media on Friday night, mocking his political chances and others in his breakaway MAGA faction.

“Tucker Carlson just met with Lightweight ‘Former’ Congressman, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene, LOSERS ALL!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday night, in an apparent reference to that meeting.

"Tucker's 'Views' have fallen through the floor, and will only get worse. Nobody cares about him any longer in that he has become totally irrelevant, and happens to be, surprisingly, a very Low I.Q. individual. He could barely get out of College, and maybe he didn't, but only really dumb people can't make it through that wonderful four year time in life!”

He added: “Tucker wants to run for political office, but he should be required to take a cognitive test. He's got no chance, but could probably take a couple of points away from whatever the Republican ticket happens to be! Tucker is a loser, and always has been!”

In recent months, Carlson has become a de facto leader of a group of Republicans including Massie and Greene, who have accused Trump of abandoning his "America First" agenda by launching the war against Iran and criticzed his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Greene resigned from Congress following a public falling-out with the president and Massie was ousted in a Republican primary after successfully pushing for legislation that compelled the release of the Epstein files.

Greene went “from Ultra Conservative to a Liberal 'Fool,' all in a matter of weeks, because I refused to return her phone calls," Trump wrote.

Massie, he added, “has turned out to be a failed politician, and a real JERK. He thought it was really wonderful to vote, ‘NO,’ on everything, no matter how good, strong, or proper the Legislation would be.”

Trump added: “What a team this would be, THREE LOSERS, and a pocketful of change!”

Carlson supported Trump’s bid for a second term in 2024. But he publicly broke with Trump following the president’s decision to go to war with Iran in February.

Since then, Carlson has repeatedly criticized the war as being at the behest of Israel at the expense of Americans.

He told The Wall Street Journal in April that he felt “betrayed” by Trump. “I don’t hate Trump. I hate this war and the direction that the U.S. government is taking,” he said.

He said he had publicly and privately lobbied Trump against another war in the Middle East early in the year. But he said the president seemed “sad and resigned” when he visited the Oval Office for the last time in February and they haven’t spoken since.

In an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review published July 1, Carlson said he would build a third party but ruled out running as its candidate.

Earlier this month, Carlson laid out his 10-point vision of what the country should be and said “change is coming,” though he stopped short of a formal launch.

That came after Greene posted a photo on X on August 1 that showed Carlson at the head of a table at his home in Maine with Greene, her husband Brian Glenn, Massie and his wife, Carolyn Moffa; and Joe Kent, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, and his wife, Heather Kent.

"We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise,” she wrote.

“But he’s betrayed us all. Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center. The movement has begun.”

In an interview days later, Joe Kent, who resigned his position over the Iran war, said that he, Massie and Greene had tried to convince Carlson to run for president.

“President Trump’s demeanor, name calling, absurd and reckless rhetoric is unbecoming of the office of the president, is a bad example of leadership, and is hurting America’s reputation and place in the world,” Greene wrote on Saturday.

It concluded with Greene saying she would pray Trump can “humble himself in the eyes of the Lord and turn to God with sincere faith and repentance for his sins in order to be the president and leader that America needs.”

Polling about Carlson’s chances should he run for president as a third-party candidate have yet to emerge.

But polling that has been conducted show he has little chance of becoming the Republican nominee in 2028. Surveys conducted in recent months have Vice President JD Vance as the frontrunner for the GOP nomination. RealClearPolling’s average of polls shows Carlson with about 1.6 percent support, far behind Vance (40.4 percent) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (22.6 percent).

Prediction markets also indicate Carlson is a long shot at winning the presidency should he run in 2028.

As of August 22, Polymarket gives Carlson a 1 percent chance of winning the White House in 2028, well behind figures including Vance, Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rubio.

Carlson’s favorability among Republicans also lags behind Trump, according to a poll conducted in March.

Only 31 percent of Republicans said they had a favorable view of Carlson, while 24 percent viewed him unfavorably, according to the poll from UMass Lowell’s Center of Public Opinion. Overall, just 17 percent of those surveyed had a favourable view of Carlson, while 38 percent had an unfavorable view.

The same poll found 77 percent of Republicans have a favorable view of Trump, while 16 percent had an unfavorable view. But overall, the poll found 36 percent had a favorable view of the president, while 54 percent had an unfavorable view.

Meanwhile, polling in recent years has found that a majority of Americans continue to believe a third political party is needed.

A Gallup survey conducted in September last year found 62 percent of U.S. adults believe the two major parties are doing such a poor job that a third is needed. Support for a third party has been near 60 percent since 2013, according to Gallup polling.

Contact Newsweek editor on this story: Edward Pearcey.

Update 8/22/26 10:28 a.m. ET: This article was updated with new information.