NEW: Longtime MAGA Rep. Accused Of Tipping Off Anti-Trump Group Before It Ambushed POTUS

The relationship between President Trump and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene deteriorated so badly that the White House warned the Secret Service she may have tipped off Code Pink protesters about his surprise dinner last fall at a Washington restaurant she recommended, according to two people close to Trump.

The episode centered on Trump’s Sept. 9 visit to Joe’s Seafood, where anti-war activists confronted him in a scene that rattled the president and set off alarm bells inside the White House about his safety.

Trump aides now see that night as the breaking point in his alliance with Greene, once one of his most vocal allies before turning into a critic and leaving Congress this week.

Greene denied any role in alerting protesters.

Any suggestion she leaked Trump’s plans was “an absolute lie, a dangerous lie. I would never do that,” she told Axios. She said she recommended the restaurant but had no idea when Trump would go.

She added that only the restaurant and Trump aides knew about the reservation and said: “The story you should be writing is why didn’t the Secret Service sweep the restaurant,” and have metal detectors at the door?

It is unclear whether Greene is under investigation. The Secret Service declined to comment, and Greene did not respond when asked whether agents had contacted her.

Trump’s dinner at Joe’s with Vice President JD Vance and Cabinet officials was meant to highlight what the White House described as safer streets following the deployment of National Guard troops.

Instead, Code Pink protesters got within feet of Trump’s table and chanted: “Free DC.! Free Palestine! Trump is the Hitler of our time!”

The White House scrambled in the aftermath to figure out how the group knew about the unannounced outing. The press had not been alerted in advance.

Trump later demanded a probe of Code Pink, saying, “they should be put in jail.”

His team met with Secret Service leaders to review the breach and his security.

Code Pink spokeswoman Melissa Garriga rejected any suggestion that Greene tipped off the group.

“That absolutely did not happen, to the point it is comical,” Garriga said.

White House officials did not offer direct proof but said their suspicions are based on two factors.

First, Greene’s involvement with the restaurant. Officials say after suggesting Joe’s, Greene repeatedly called White House staff the day of the dinner to confirm Trump was going. After Trump learned about the calls, he phoned Greene shortly before leaving the White House and confirmed the visit, according to the sources.

Greene, a regular at the restaurant, did not show up while Trump was there, which raised eyebrows among aides.

Second, Greene’s ties to Code Pink.

White House aides point to her friendship with Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin. The two share opposition to U.S. military aid to Ukraine and Israel.

Benjamin has praised Greene for opposing Trump’s bombing of Iranian nuclear sites and for calling to cut foreign aid from the Pentagon. Benjamin and other Code Pink members visited Greene after she announced in November that she would resign from Congress.

🚨 Wow this is crazy! Another bad look for MTG

When President Trump was mobbed at a D.C. restaurant by Marjorie Taylor Greenes Code Pink Friends apparently it was MTG that RECOMMENDED the restaurant.

Which prompted the Secret Service to investigate MTG–She set him up! pic.twitter.com/UfFwbS3ydr

— J (@JayTC53) January 9, 2026

“I have enjoyed a friendship with Medea for a few years now, even though politics says that’s not allowed,” Greene said at the time.

Trump’s relationship with Greene began to unravel last spring, according to allies familiar with the situation.

Trump sent Greene internal polling showing she would lose a potential Senate race to a Democrat. He said it was meant to inform her, not stop her from running.

Soon after, aides noticed Greene stepping up her public criticism of Trump, including claims he had abandoned his “America First” agenda and opposition to his “big, beautiful” tax and spending bill.

Trump privately vented that he no longer recognized his former ally.

Greene, for her part, felt sidelined by Donald Trump’s second-term inner circle, according to a source close to her. She believed his advisers brushed off her ideas and ignored her outreach despite her years of loyalty to Trump.

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