EXCLUSIVE — Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is confident that Vice President JD Vance would chart a different course on the Iran war than President Donald Trump, as she calls on the Cabinet to remove Trump from office over his threats to bomb Tehran’s critical infrastructure.
“I hope he would handle foreign policy differently,” Greene told the Washington Examiner in a text message. “I support JD Vance to guide America towards world peace and lead the administration back to an America First agenda.”
Greene, who resigned from Congress in January, is calling on the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office, at which point Vance would become acting commander in chief. She issued the call after Trump released a statement on Truth Social saying that Iran’s “whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” if the regime did not strike a deal to end the war with the United States.
“Not a single bomb has dropped on America,” Greene wrote in a post on X. “We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness.”
The 25th Amendment allows a president to transfer power voluntarily if they are unable to perform the duties of their office. It was last invoked in November 2021, when then-President Joe Biden voluntarily handed power to Vice President Kamala Harris for 85 minutes while he underwent a routine colonoscopy.
The 25th Amendment also includes a provision enabling the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to declare a president unfit to serve. The amendment specifies that in such an event, if the ousted president contests his inability to serve, then two-thirds of each chamber of Congress must vote to keep the vice president as acting commander in chief.
Vance has been one of Trump’s top messengers throughout the Iran war, even getting involved in negotiations himself, according to Trump. Speaking at a press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, Vance said the end of the Iran war is “ultimately up to the Iranians.”
“I hope that they’re smart,” Vance said about Iranian leadership. “The president has set a deadline for about 12 hours from now in the United States,” he said. “We’re going to find out. … There’s going to be a lot of negotiation between now and then, and I’m hopeful that it gets to a good resolution.”
Trump has issued an 8 p.m. deadline for a deal to be struck between the U.S. and Iran, saying that if a deal is not reached, the U.S. military will strike the country’s power plants and bridges.
Greene has had a public split with the president over rising healthcare costs and her support for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Since her departure from Congress, the Georgia Republican has become more vocal in her criticism of policies undertaken by Trump that she views as contrary to the “America First” principles he campaigned on — specifically the war in Iran.
‘THIS IS EVIL’: TRUMP’S THREAT TO BOMB IRAN POWER GRID RANKLES ONE-TIME MAGA ALLIES
“This [is] NOT what we promised the American people when they overwhelmingly voted in 2024, I know, I was there more than most,” Greene said in another post on X over the weekend. “This is not making America great again, this is evil.”
The Washington Examiner has reached out to the office of the vice president for comment.
Mabinty Quarshie contributed to this report.
