Marjorie Taylor Greene Is ‘So Over’ Laura Loomer and the GOP’s ‘Nasty Talk’

The feud between two of the GOP’s most provocative shock jocks — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and far-right influencer Laura Loomer — began long before Loomer ever got on a plane with former President Donald Trump earlier this week.

It didn’t start on Sunday with Loomer’s openly racist post on X, or Greene’s unexpected reply on Wednesday calling on Loomer to take down her words.

But it was the post which brought the feud to a “boiling point,” Greene told NOTUS on Thursday.

The congresswoman said she has Loomer muted online — “I don’t like the way she talks” — but someone sent her Loomer’s tweet and Greene felt the need to speak up.

“I just got tired of it,” she said. “You know, that’s my personality. I’m going to call balls and strikes.”

For Greene, Loomer’s post — which claimed the White House would “smell like curry” and that “speeches will be facilitated via a call center” if Harris won — wasn’t just a ball; it was a hit by pitch.

Greene said she doesn’t like the way some people talk about Kamala Harris and race. She said she hasn’t been a fan of the questions about whether Harris is Indian or Black, or the taunts about “people that don’t have children” but have pets. “I don’t like any of that,” Greene said.

Of course, much of that talk has been coming from Donald Trump and JD Vance. The former president has practically made a sport out of questioning Harris’ race, and Vance has become famous for maligning “childless cat ladies.”

But Greene isn’t calling out the Republican ticket — at least not by name. She is calling out Loomer, however, seemingly blaming her for some of Trump’s recent rhetoric, with the former president traveling with Loomer in the lead-up to a debate that decidedly did not go well for him.

While Greene avoided saying what the election wasn’t about, she said, for the voters she talks to, the race is about inflation, the economy and the border. “I’m so over the nasty talk,” she said.

But if Greene is truly over “the nasty talk,” she may want to watch what she says about Loomer.

Almost in the next breath, Greene made unprintable claims about Loomer’s mental health. She said she wouldn’t “go there” on whether Trump should be talking to Loomer, but she noted that Loomer has lost two congressional elections. “I don’t think this is a person that needs to be advising on a presidential race,” Greene said.

“She’s become very toxic and an angry person,” she added.

Loomer responded by calling Greene “a liar.”

“I only spoke out against her publicly when she decided to do the bidding of McCarthy and support him for his run for speaker,” Loomer told NOTUS. “And she’s not a doctor or a psychiatrist, so for her to question my mental health just shows how low she’s willing to go.”

Of course, it wasn’t always like this for Loomer and Greene. The congresswoman noted — both in her interview with NOTUS and in a thread on X — that she and Loomer used to be close. “She was a lot different years ago,” Greene told NOTUS.

According to Greene, the relationship started to turn when Loomer ran against one of her GOP colleagues in Florida, Rep. Dan Webster. Greene apparently told Loomer she wouldn’t support her challenge against Webster.

“After that, she turned on me,” Greene said Thursday. “She turns on everyone. And so, since then, she’s just said a lot of nasty lies.”

The two also sparred over Greene’s support of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and when The New York Times reported that Trump wanted to hire Loomer. Greene told the outlet that Loomer “can not be trusted” and said she would “make sure” Trump knows that.

Loomer, who has long floated around the orbit of Trump, said multiple incidents led to pair’s falling out.

“I don’t work for President Trump,” she said. “I want to know why a woman who claims to be an ally of President Trump is working with the left wing media to smear one of his strongest allies who has worked tirelessly to defend him and uncover corruption in the legal cases against him.”

“The question is, why wasn’t Marjorie on the plane? Why wasn’t Marjorie at the debate? And it’s because she’s not exactly wanted.”

Her heightened presence over the past week has baffled some Trump allies who question what benefit she could possibly be to Trump right now.

Confused by Loomer’s soaring status, Sen. Lindsey Graham found himself in a surprising spot — agreeing with Greene.

“Marjorie Taylor Greene is right. I don’t say that a lot,” Graham said Thursday. “The history of this person is just really toxic.”

Loomer responded to Graham’s comments with an extended post on X, calling him disloyal to Trump and questioning his sexuality.

But most Republicans are finding themselves agreeing with Greene and Graham at the moment. A former Trump official echoed Graham’s sentiment but said given Loomer’s history with Greene, it’s not shocking that the congresswoman would go after her.

“Those two hate each other, so Marjorie would say anything,” the official told NOTUS. “But, she’s not wrong.”

This person added that, if Loomer sticks around, it’ll only add to the Trump campaign’s problems. The image of her — a far-right, conspiracy-flinging racist — is exactly what Democrats would love undecided voters to associate with the former president.

“She reinforces all of the negative things,” the former Trump official said. “She gives the left a target to fire at, and there’s literally nothing that she adds in terms of value or support or perspective.”

It appears, however, that Loomer isn’t going anywhere. Despite the pitfalls she presents, those in Trumpworld are hesitant to do anything about it.

“The problem is that she makes him feel comfortable,” one strategist familiar with the campaign told NOTUS. “The worst part is no one will tell her to go away because she’ll tell him.”

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Ben T.N. Mause is a NOTUS reporter and an Allbritton Journalism Institute fellow. Reese Gorman is a NOTUS reporter.