BS BULLETIN
- Marjorie Taylor Greene says she “can’t remember the last time” she saw anyone wearing a MAGA hat or Trump shirt.
- The former Trump ally argues enthusiasm for MAGA has faded since her spectacular split with the president.
- Trump supporters online responded with a different theory: MAGA left Greene, not the other way around.
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has apparently discovered something unusual during her travels across America:
She can’t find any MAGA hats.
Greene, once among Donald Trump’s loudest and most recognizable congressional allies, shared a photograph Monday of a “Trump Superstore” billboard accompanied by a “going out of business” sign and added an observation of her own.
“I can’t remember the last time I saw someone wearing a maga hat or Trump shirt,” Greene wrote on X.
It was more than an observation about America’s headwear. Greene has increasingly argued that the MAGA movement that once propelled her political career is losing enthusiasm — and that longtime Trump supporters are becoming disillusioned with the president.
“I’m just telling you what I see with my own eyes,” Greene said in a video expanding on her comments. She argued that she once routinely saw Trump hats and shirts in airports and other public places but sees far fewer now.
That is certainly one interpretation. Another possibility is that Marjorie Taylor Greene’s social circle has changed rather dramatically since Donald Trump started calling her “Marjorie Traitor Brown.”
Greene’s transformation from Trump loyalist to Trump antagonist has been one of the stranger political divorces of the MAGA era.
The rupture accelerated last year as Greene joined Republican Rep. Thomas Massie and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna in demanding fuller disclosure of government records involving Jeffrey Epstein. She was one of four House Republicans who signed the discharge petition forcing action on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Trump ultimately signed the legislation after it overwhelmingly cleared Congress.
But Greene remained furious over the Justice Department’s handling of the documents and the redactions that accompanied their release. That wasn’t her only complaint.
She increasingly criticized Republican congressional leadership, the government’s record-long shutdown and the administration’s foreign policy before announcing in November that she would resign from Congress effective January 2026.
In announcing her departure, Greene said she did not want her district to endure a bitter primary triggered by her feud with Trump and declared, “I refuse to be a battered wife hoping it all goes away and gets better.”
Trump celebrated her departure. The relationship has not improved. Greene has since attacked the president’s handling of the economy and the Iran war and argued that the Trump she once supported no longer exists. “You may have supported President Trump for 10 years, like I did and like you have, but this is not the same man,” Greene told Alex Jones this spring. “This is not the same man that we supported.”
And she is increasingly portraying herself not as someone who abandoned MAGA but as someone who believes MAGA abandoned its original principles.
Greene told CNN earlier this year that her relationship with Trump had become irreparable, but she simultaneously insisted she remained “America First” and suggested that her disagreement was with the president rather than the voters who elected him.
Monday’s MAGA-hat comment takes that argument another step. Greene isn’t merely saying she has become dissatisfied.
She’s suggesting millions of other former Trump supporters may be quietly arriving at the same conclusion.
There is, however, a rather substantial difference between anecdotal hat-counting and evidence of a political collapse.
Trump remains the sitting Republican president, Republicans continue to identify heavily with him, and candidates across the country continue seeking his endorsement in the 2026 midterms. Even Greene’s former House colleagues who sometimes oppose Trump generally do so while navigating a Republican electorate in which his influence remains enormous.
And Greene’s own post immediately attracted pushback from the very people she believes are losing enthusiasm. “She’s dreaming,” one commenter wrote. “There’s still millions of MAGA people.”
Another offered a considerably shorter diagnosis: “MAGA is done with MTG.”
That may be the more interesting political question. Is Greene accurately detecting a genuine cooling of enthusiasm among Trump voters? Or is a politician who once stood at the center of MAGA now mistaking her own estrangement from the movement for the movement’s disappearance?
And after a year that included a brutal Trump feud, a congressional resignation and increasingly frequent attacks on her former political allies, Greene may be discovering how different the view looks from outside the tent.
MY QUICK TAKE:
Marjorie can’t find a MAGA hat?
I can help.
Try a Trump rally.
This is a fascinating new polling methodology, by the way.
Forget Rasmussen.
Forget Gallup.
Forget voter-registration numbers.
We’ve got the Marjorie Taylor Greene Airport Hat Index.
“I walked through Terminal B and didn’t see enough red caps. Trump is finished.”
Breaking news!
Perhaps the hats didn’t disappear. Perhaps the invitations did. Because there’s another explanation for why Greene suddenly isn’t surrounded by enthusiastic MAGA people: Enthusiastic MAGA people aren’t particularly enthusiastic about Marjorie Taylor Greene anymore. That’s the awkward part.
She was once one of Trump’s most aggressive defenders. Now she’s one of his most aggressive Republican critics, he’s calling her “Marjorie Traitor Brown,” and she’s looking around wondering where everybody went.
Marjorie, they may not have gone anywhere. They may simply have stopped following you.
And let’s remember something Rush understood better than almost anybody in politics: political movements are bigger than individual politicians. People don’t necessarily stop believing something because one famous person leaves the parade.
Sometimes the parade keeps marching.
And the person who walked away hears the music getting quieter.
