Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s “concerned” President Donald Trump could use war—through an Iran conflict or elsewhere—as a way to keep power, pointing to Trump’s past exchange with Volodymyr Zelenskyy about suspending elections during wartime. Greene called
On Thursday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene sounded alarmed—so alarmed she framed the worry in terms of a future Trump administration choosing power over the election cycle.
Greene. a Republican from Georgia. said she is “concerned” that President Donald Trump could use war in Iran or elsewhere to stay in power after his second term. She pointed to a conversation Trump had with Ukraine’s president. Volodymyr Zelenskyy. last summer—an exchange she said planted an idea and kept it alive.
The Ukrainian president told Trump that elections were suspended while his country was at war against Russia. In her recounting. Trump’s response was immediate and curious. asking: “So you say. during the war. you can’t have elections. ” and then continuing. “So let me just see. Three and a half years from now. so you mean if we happen to be in a war with somebody. no more elections?. Oh, that’s good.”.
Greene argued that this kind of repeated rumination is how ideas get normalized. “So that type of behavior is someone planting an idea over and over and over again,” she said. “He constantly says it so that he can normalize the idea and test the support and test people’s reactions.”
Greene then turned from describing Trump’s comments to warning about what she believes comes next. “But saying it over and over and over again normalizes the idea. ” she said. calling it “incredibly dangerous.” She drew a line around constitutional limits and election rights with blunt emphasis: “And no one should ever accept it. Absolutely, absolutely not. There cannot be a third term, no. That’s against our laws. That’s against the Constitution. There is no third term. And if this country is at war, no, our election should not be canceled, absolutely not.”.
The fear Greene carried into Thursday wasn’t entirely new; the source of the concern was tied to Trump’s earlier talk about how wartime could affect elections. But she arrived at it this week amid fresh conversation about how power could be retained, and what that retention might look like.
A somewhat novel theory emerged in the same moment. laying out a different kind of pathway—keeping control not by suspending elections. but by literally staying at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Greene framed the discussion as a clash between competing ways of thinking about the presidency. with her opponents—former Trump disciples who had once sworn off the ideas they are now floating—leaning into conspiracy-style explanations.
Jones, one of those figures, has been widely associated with conspiracy media. His Infowars has been shut down, but he is now broadcasting “The Alex Jones Show” on the so-called Alex Jones Network.
Greene’s comments landed in a charged space where constitutional boundaries and political strategy are being debated side by side—one anchored in wartime election suspensions Trump once appeared to entertain, the other imagining that power might be held by simply refusing to leave the White House.
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So basically war means no voting now? wild.
I don’t trust any of this. They all talk crazy and then act shocked when it “could” happen. Also isn’t this just political fearmongering?
Greene bringing up Zelensky like that proves something?? Like I’m confused, because if a country is literally at war sometimes elections get postponed anyway. But then she says “third term” and I’m like… where is that leap coming from.
This is why I hate politics. One person says “no elections during war” and everyone jumps to “abuse.” But the headline makes it sound like Trump is already planning to cancel elections in Iran??? Like maybe, maybe not. I also heard somewhere else that he was joking or talking strategy, but idk, the clip going around is cut weird.