Some of Donald Trump‘s biggest right-wing critics are joining forces and plotting the launch of a new political party.
Podcaster Tucker Carlson, former Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, outgoing Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, and former Director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent sat down for a meeting posted on X by Greene on Saturday.
All are former Trump allies turned detractors who have grown frustrated by the President’s broken campaign promises.
In her post, Greene wrote, ‘We said no more foreign wars, and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise. But he’s betrayed us all.’
‘Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center. The movement has begun,’ she added.
The conservative figures were also joined by family members, including Massie’s wife Carolyn Grace Moffa and Greene’s new husband Brian Glenn.
Donald Trump’s biggest right-wing critics are plotting their political futures. Pictured are (1) Carolyn Grace Moffa, (2) Brian Glenn, (3) Marjorie Taylor Greene, (4) Tucker Carlson, (5) Joe Kent, (6) Heather Kaiser Kent, (7) Thomas Massie
Massie shared Green’s post on X with the caption, ‘This meeting will not be televised,’ which is ironic due to the location being Carlson’s Maine cabin, where he also films his highly viewed podcast.
The cadre’s meeting location of choice was grand but still homey, with a bold deer antler chandelier and a pop of color in the American flag cutting through the wooden trimmings. After Greene posted the photo, it drew a flurry of mixed reactions.
Right-wing media mogul Alex Jones shared the post, noting, ‘That’s a great group of Americans!’
X user @ElofsonJess also appeared pleased, commenting, ‘The Avengers have assembled.’
Meanwhile, the group is already facing backlash from other MAGA figures. Right-wing journalist Laura Loomer noted on X, ‘Every single one of these people belongs on a government watch list. Every person in this photo is a traitor to America and an anti-Trump operative amplified by foreign adversaries.’
MeghanMcCain, a podcaster and daughter of the late US Senator and former GOP presidential candidate John McCain asked, ‘Why does everyone in this photo look like they’re at Patricia’s Sunset Cocktails?’
Independent investigative journalist and podcaster Walter Kurt jabbed at Greene, noting, ‘You quit Congress in the middle of your term to get married in Vegas and go on a media tour. Why would anyone look to you as the leader of a movement?’
Greene resigned from Congress in January of this year as her spat with the President intensified.
Greene and Massie became close after crusading for the Trump administration to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein last year.
That effort earned Greene the scorn of the President, who has since referred to his formerly close ally as a ‘traitor,’ among other nicknames.
Seven-term Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky was handily defeated in a primary election contest back in May by Trump’s hand-picked challenger, Ed Gallrein.
Gallrein, a retired Navy Seal and farmer, was chosen by the President’s political operation to oust Massie after the incumbent relentlessly pushed for the release of the files surrounding the deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and bucked the President on his signature One Beautiful Bill tax legislation last summer.
The race amounted to a continuation of Trump’s bitter revenge tour and underscores his unmatched power over the Republican party, even as his personal popularity continues to dwindle during his second term.
Kent, a former counter-terrorism Trump staffer who resigned from the administration over the war in Iran, raised eyebrows when he appeared on Carlson’s show days after his departure from the administration.
Greene and her now-husband, Glenn, stole away to Sin City this week, where they tied the knot in a Tuesday night ceremony on the terrace of the Bellagio’s Terrazza di Sogno.
They exchanged vows overlooking the iconic Vegas fountains and city strip.
The two had kept their wedding plans hush-hush, with a family-only ceremony and a marriage license they obtained just one week earlier.
