Ilhan Omar urges grace for Trump defectors like Marjorie Taylor Greene

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., suggested in a podcast Sunday that Democrats should act with civility toward former supporters of President Donald Trump who have broken with him on important issues.

Tommy Vietor, co-host of “Pod Save America” played a clip of former Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was once a staunch Trump ally but has now become one of Trump’s most outspoken conservative critics, to the point of recommending his removal via the 25th Amendment following his viral threat to end Iranian civilization.

Greene said earlier this month: “The American people have to open their eyes, face the truth, face the truth. And the truth is, look, you, like me and you, may have supported President Trump for 10 years, but this is not the same man. This is not the man we support.”

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Vietor cited many other famous political figures, stating that he was “far from the only diehard MAGA supporter” who broke with Trump over the war in Iran and the handling of the Epstein files. He then went on to ask Omar questions about what her reaction was to Greene’s comments and how Democrats in general should respond to such departures from the MAGA movement.

Omar responded to the second part of her question: “I think it’s really important for us as Americans to work together to preserve everything that’s good about our country and to support leaders that we can trust to protect what’s good about our country.”

What’s fascinating about defectors like Greene, Omar suggested, is that “they don’t say, ‘This action is wrong,’ like the others you mentioned, do they? They say, ‘I’m done with you.'”

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Vietor agrees with this and states that this is a “values-based” judgment, not like ‘this policy is bad’ but like ‘this guy is bad’.

“It’s true, and I think we should give them credit for the fact that it’s a wake-up call for them to finally see this fraudster, this corrupt, chaotic man,” Omar said. “The fact that they realize he has no principles other than boosting his ego.”

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Left: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) watches a press conference on reintroducing the Neighbors Not Enemies Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on January 22, 2025; Right: U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on January 16, 2026. Trump is heading to Palm Beach, Florida, where he will attend a dedication ceremony to rename a portion of the city’s Southern Boulevard before staying at his Mar-a-Lago estate over the holiday weekend. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Instead, he said, it was about Trump enriching himself and boosting his ego, having been mocked in the past by people like former President Barack Obama.

“This has never been about putting America first. It’s never been about having consistent policies,” he said.

“You know they got off the liar train and said, ‘We trusted the wrong person, we’re sorry about that, and we need you all to wake up to the fact that you also trusted the wrong person,'” Omar continued.

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He added that it goes something like this: “I think it’s important for us to fold our arms and say, ‘Yeah, so now let’s figure out how to save our country from the disaster that this man has created.'”

“I think it’s very important and significant that you feel that way, because you are someone who has personally been subjected to harassment from many of these people,” Vietor responded.

“All of them,” Omer joked.

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When asked if she had called Greene to extend that olive branch, she said she hadn’t yet, but recalled: “I did, and before I left, I found her in the House and thanked her for her support in ending the genocide, for her willingness to speak openly about what people in Gaza are going through and what our tax revenues have allowed to happen.”

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He concluded: “We have a responsibility to end this genocide and to end our financial and political support for Israel and the immunity we have consistently provided them, because they tried to destroy a group of people.”

While Greene was in Congress, she and Omar frequently traded barbs.

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Greene had pushed to censure Omar in early 2024, accusing her of being a spy. “foreign agent” For Somalia.

Omar voted with a majority of Democrats in 2021 to strip Greene of her committee assignments.

Omar spoke in favor of personally punishing Greene. She described how Greene had previously pushed her and Rashida Tlaib, two Muslim members of Congress, to press the issue. retake congressional oaths In the Bible. When did he remember Greene posted a photo of herself The photo, holding a gun next to photos of Omar, Tlaib and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was called “The team’s worst nightmare.”

“This is about whether it’s appropriate to hold an assault rifle next to Members’ heads in a campaign ad and incite death threats against them,” Omar said in response at the time. he said. “This is about whether it is appropriate to encourage the murder of the Speaker of the House.”

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., arrives at a meeting of House Republicans on the budget reconciliation bill at the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc.)

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