Former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has said she fears President Donald Trump could use the Iran war as an excuse to cancel the 2028 presidential election and hold onto power.
During an interview with the right-wing commentator Alex Jones, Greene spoke of the time that Trump met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and learned that the country had not held elections since the start of the war with Russia.
“President Trump turned to him and said, ‘wait a minute. You mean that if there’s a war going on you can’t have elections?’ And he said it jokingly but at the same time, knowing President Trump, I looked at that and I said — I know he said it jokingly, but I don’t know if he’s joking,” Greene said.
Trump did not use Greene’s exact words, but instead told Zelensky in August 2025: “So you say during a war you can’t have elections. Let me just say, three-and-a-half years from now, if we happen to be at war with someone, no more elections…”
Greene said that Trump made the remarks to normalize the idea in the eyes of the public. “He constantly says it so that he can normalize the idea and test the support, and test people’s reaction,” she said. “I think it’s incredibly dangerous and no one should ever accept it.”
She added: “There cannot be a third term, no. That’s against our law, that’s against the Constitution, there is no third term. And if this country is at war, no — our elections should not be canceled.”
Greene resigned from Congress in January after a falling out with Trump and the MAGA movement.
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