Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Tuesday’s midterm elections were a referendum on President Donald Trump, using his own election-season strategy against him because Democrats were poised to control the House and Senate.
“Tonight was a total referendum on Trump,” the Georgia congresswoman wrote on X. “He told people to vote like he was on the ballot and they did.”
Greene, who was once a prominent Trump ally in Congress, left Capitol Hill this year after a break with the sitting President. Her post Tuesday night blamed Trump for betraying those voters who elected him.
“But really it’s what Trump did to the American people,” Greene wrote Tuesday. “And tonight they sent him a clear message.”
Throughout the election season, Trump asked voters to view the midterms as a test of his presidency. “Pretend please, that I am on the ballot,” the former reality TV star told a political rally in South Carolina in August and the Republican midterm convention in Dallas last month.
Democrats needed to capture four Senate seats and three House seats to win control of both chambers of Congress. Those goals were reached Tuesday night, according to projections by CNN, NBC News, CBS News, MS NOW, and The Associated Press, which also gave Democrats the Senate.
MS NOW was the first projection organization to give Democrats the House majority, shortly before 10 p.m. EST Tuesday, projecting that the party would have at least 245 of the 435 House seats. CNN projects Democratic control of the Senate at 11:35 p.m. EST Tuesday, stating the Democrats have at least 51 seats.
Seven Senate seats flipped Tuesday night, according to NBC News: James Talarico beat Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Sherrod Brown won in Ohio, Adam Hamilton won in Kansas, and Troy Jackson beat incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins in Maine. In Michigan, Democrats won an open seat, defeating Republican Mike Rogers.
The Washington Post reported Democrats won in areas where voters expressed frustration about prices and the Iran war, taking seats from Republican-held states, and some tight races were yet to be called Wednesday morning.
Greene’s overall message Tuesday night was a series of charges against the President.
“Trump covered up the Epstein files protecting rapists and pedophiles, started a foreign war no one wanted and killed a school full of kids, put his rich elite donors before the struggling Americans who put him in office, made life unaffordable with his tariffs, and caused gas and diesel prices to skyrocket while he played the market and sold crypto,” Greene posted.
Greene has been among those Republicans who asked the government to release files on Jeffrey Epstein. At first, Trump refused, but after a year, the President changed his position on the issue, signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The U.S. Department of Justice released more than 3 million pages of files in January. In addition, Todd Blanche, acting deputy attorney general, stated that this batch completed the government’s planned release of all remaining classified records of the former President. According to Trump, the files exonerate him from the allegations of sexual misconduct. However, opponents, including Greene, believe this information still remains hidden. According to Greene, Trump told, in a phone conversation during an interview with CNN Monday evening, “his friends would get hurt.”
U.S. and Israeli forces attacked IranFebruary 28thy 28, 2025. According to the first day of the Iran war report, a missile hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, causing the deaths of more than 100 children, according to Iranian officials, although the death toll varies. According to an Associated Press reconstruction, a missile from the United States attacked the school. The deaths caused by the strike are probably due to outdated intelligence, according to anonymous officials in AP reports. So far, the Pentagon has not admitted its fault in this incident, and according to Trump, “I don’t think it was us.”
At the same time, the war with Iran has raised fuel prices. According to AAA, the price of regular gasoline across the USA was about $4.25 per gallonOctober 28thr 28, up from $2.98 at the start of the war. Diesel reached a record $6.49 a gallon in September, according to AAA. Before the Republican convention in September, Trump guaranteed that gasoline prices would drop below $2 a gallon after the election.
According to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, Trump’s tariffs will cost an average U.S. household approximately $1,000 in 2025 and an additional $1,300 in 2026. Moreover, researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas say consumers will fully cover these expenses.
When mentioning the market and crypto, Greene probably means the personal finances of the current President. Ethics filings in May revealed that Trump’s portfolio included 3,642 stock trades in the first quarter of 2026, including Coinbase and other crypto-related companies. The President’s annual filing in June disclosed that he earned more than $1.4 billion from crypto businesses in 2025. This sum included token sales of World Liberty Financial, a company started by Trump and his sons.
Greene accused the President of losing touch with working Americans, saying he invites wealthy guests to lavish dinners and talks about his ballroom in the White House while families can’t pay bills.
Greene also criticized other Republicans. “And Republicans stood behind him silently clapping like trained baby seals. And Trump ran me and Thomas Massie out of the Congress and our Republican colleagues stayed silent,” she wrote in her post.
Greene, who has represented a northwest Georgia district since 2021, ended her alliance with Trump the previous year over the situation surrounding the release of the files. In November 2025, Trump canceled his support, calling Greene a traitor and hinting he would back a candidate-challenger. Several days later, Greene said that she would leave Congress without reelection, as the primary election would be very painful for her. Trump considered Greene’s departure as good news for the country.
Greene left offiJanuary 5thry 5th, and Republican Clay Fuller won a special election in March to replace her. In June, Greene said she would leave the Republican Party, though she added that she would not join Democrats.
Massie, a libertarian-oriented Republican representing a constituency in Kentucky, disagreed with the President over spending, war with Iran, and the release of Epstein files, and lost the primary election on May 19th to his former Navy SEAL, Ed Gallrein, whom Trump supported. This primary election was the most expensive in U.S. House of Representatives history. Massie will remain in power until January.
Trump continues to attack both. After Greene and Massie met with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson in August, the President called the three losers in a social media post.
Trump denied these results were connected to him. “I don’t view it as a hit on me,” he told Fox News early Wednesday, claiming the voters disliked the candidates. As he mentioned in his social network post, Republicans would have won in a landslide had his name appeared on the ballot.
He also told The New York Times he was ready to accept the results and congratulated the Democrats, according to the interview with CBS News. White House officials blamed the Republican Party’s poor candidates for the losses.
Greene predicted this verdict previously. Appearing on a CNN show Monday, she said, “I think it’s a complete referendum on Donald Trump” and added that the vote should also assess Mike Johnson, the current speaker of the U.S. House, and Congressional Republicans who never questioned the President. Greene predicted that many of them would remain silent anyway because this was “the major mistake.”
Greene’s Tuesday night post sounds no more optimistic.
“But it’s the rest of Republicans that need to learn the lesson and drastically change course,” she wrote. “And I’m not sure if they’re capable of that.”
