MAGA firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene jumped to President Donald Trump’s defense after a Democratic congresswoman called him out for branding himself a “king.”
In her remarks during a Wednesday hearing of the MTG-led House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency—a callback to Elon Musk’s DOGE—New Mexico Rep. Melanie Stansbury hit back at Trump.
“I know that Donald Trump thinks that he’s a king because of social media,” Stansbury said. “Of course, he keeps repeating this, but let me say this to you, Mr. Trump: 250 years ago, the people of this great nation rejected a reckless, abusive king, and we won’t go back.”
Stansbury was referring to King George III, known as the British king who lost during the American Revolution.
The congresswoman’s comments came after Trump patted himself on the back for terminating New York City’s controversial congestion pricing program that charged drivers for entering Manhattan south of 60th Street.
“CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social as the White House and conservative pundits cheered him on.
As she closed out her remarks, Stansbury pledged to fight back against the “reckless and heartless and harmful and disgusting cuts” of federal workers led by the Department of Government Efficiency.
“For the thousands of federal workers out there… know that we see you,” she said. “We are fighting for you, we are in the courts, we are in Congress, we are in our communities, and we will hold this administration accountable, and we will not abandon our allies or our humanity. So with that, I say to all of you, be strong. We will fight back.”
Greene, however, took her opportunity to bite back.
“Threats against the President of the United States will not be tolerated by anyone,” the Georgia congresswoman said shortly after Stansbury concluded her remarks.
Greene defended the sweeping cuts of the federal workforce as necessary because the U.S. is “flat-out broke.”
“If the U.S. government operated like any other private business—which it should, by the way—it would be completely bankrupt, and it would be out of business,” she said. “Government is not a charity, and it is not to be used and abused by the bureaucracy to implement the far left’s agenda and impose it on the entire world.”
