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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claimed Monday that President Donald Trump has blocked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, D-Ga., from running for Georgia’s Senate seat next year — a move she says has prompted Greene into an ongoing “tour of revenge” against the GOP.
Ocasio-Cortez made the comments during an Instagram Live, telling her followers: “Here’s some tea. MTG, people are saying, ‘Oh my God, she’s saying all this stuff, like, what’s happened to her lately?'” ‘Oh, she’s against Trump, she’s against the administration.’
She continued: “Marjorie Taylor Greene wanted to run for Senate in Georgia. She wanted to run for Senate earlier this year in Georgia, and she wanted to be the Republican Party’s nominee for Senate. So, she was preparing for this statewide race, and Trump told her no.”
Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will not run for Senate while attacking Democrats and fellow Republicans
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims President Donald Trump blocked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for Georgia’s Senate seat, sparking her latest “revenge tour.” (Drew Angerer/Kevin Deitch)
“Trump said no, and the White House and Trumpland shut down Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal ambitions to run for the Senate — and she’s been on a revenge tour ever since,” Ocasio-Cortez added.
Greene said in May that she would not seek a Senate seat in Georgia next year, choosing not to challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. Republicans are targeting Ossoff’s seat as one of their top pick-up opportunities in 2026.
“Even with a few good Republicans in the Senate, nothing has changed,” Greene wrote on X at the time. “So no, Jon Ossoff is not the real problem. He’s just a vote. A pawn. No different than one-man Republicans who bypass key votes to attend fundraisers and let our agenda fail.”
In recent weeks, Greene has intensified his criticism of GOP leadership, taking aim at the party’s approach to health care and the ongoing government shutdown — even as Republicans control Congress and the White House.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, now Donald Trump’s harshest critic, revolted
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced in May that she would not challenge incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff in next year’s Senate race. (Getty Images)
She also broke with her party on foreign policy, calling the Israeli military campaign in Gaza a “genocide” and a “humanitarian crisis.”
On ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday, Greene rejected any suggestion that her criticism had strained her relationship with Trump.
“I love him,” she said. “When I ran for Congress in 2020, I ran on both Republicans and Democrats, because I come from a working-class family.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has criticized the GOP and GOP leadership in Congress in recent weeks. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Green warned that Republicans could lose control of the House of Representatives if inflation and daily costs do not decline soon.
Last month, she told Semaphore that she couldn’t “see the future, but I see that Republicans will lose the House if Americans continue to pay their salaries.”
“They will definitely go into the midterms looking through the lens of their bank accounts,” she added.