Former Trump loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene has expressed fears that President Donald Trump may use a war as a pretext to cancel the 2028 presidential election. Greene, who broke with Trump after calling for the release of the Epstein files, referenced a meeting in which the president alluded to cancelling elections.
Speaking on Alex Jones Live on Thursday, Greene said: “I’m concerned. And he said it jokingly. But at the same time, knowing President Trump, I looked at that, and I thought, I don’t know if he’s saying it, joking.” Jones, the show’s host, interjected: “I remember that clip. That’s what people do. That’s what psychos do.”
Trump made the remark while speaking to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office last August. During the meeting, Trump noted that Ukraine had not held a presidential election since Russia invaded in 2022. “So you say, during the war, you can’t have elections,” Trump said. “Three and a half years from now, so you mean if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections? Oh, that’s good.”
Greene told Jones that she believes Trump’s behaviour is that of a person “planting an idea over and over and over again”. She claimed: “Saying it over and over and over again normalises the idea. And I think it’s incredibly dangerous, and no one should ever accept it.” Greene added that a third Trump term would be “against the Constitution” and that the election should not be cancelled even if the country is at war.
Trump has repeatedly alluded to remaining in office after his second term, selling “TRUMP 2028” hats and claiming he was “entitled” to a third term because Democrats “cheated like hell” in 2020—a claim widely debunked. He has also said he will only accept the results of the 2026 midterm elections if they are “honest”, otherwise “something else has to happen”.
Greene, previously an ardent Trump supporter, broke with the president after calling for the release of the Epstein files. Trump dubbed her “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown”, and she later resigned from Congress. Greene has claimed that releasing the Epstein files was the “demise” of the Republican party but “worth every single bit”.
