Greene: Trump may use Iran war to cancel 2028 election
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- Marjorie Taylor Greene told conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday that she fears Trump may try to cancel the 2028 presidential election by using the war in Iran as a pretext, pointing to Trump's 2025 remark to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — "if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections? Oh, that's good."
- Greene acknowledged Trump "said it jokingly" about postponing elections during wartime but added, "knowing President Trump, I looked at that and I thought… I don't know if he's joking," warning that the comment could normalize the idea while Trump tests support for a third term.
- Greene was a loyal MAGA ally and one of Trump's fiercest defenders before resigning from Congress in January after a public falling-out driven by frustrations over the Middle East and Ukraine conflicts and the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
- Trump has openly quipped about a third term but conceded he knows he cannot run again; the 22nd Amendment bars any individual from being elected president more than twice.
- Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson, longtime Trump allies who boosted his 2024 return to the White House, have publicly criticized the U.S. operation in Iran as a reversal of Trump's "America First" pledge to keep the country out of foreign wars, signaling a wider MAGA fracture over the conflict.
- Greene declared on Jones's show, "Our elections should not be canceled" during wartime, and "There cannot be a third term… that's against our laws, that's against the Constitution."
Why it matters: Greene's warning — delivered to fellow ex-MAGA figure Alex Jones and amplified by her break with Trump over Iran, Ukraine, and the Epstein files — puts a prominent former Trump defender on record opposing any wartime election delay, raising the political cost of any such move and spotlighting an emerging conservative revolt that now includes Kelly and Carlson.
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