Donald Trump called Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation ‘great news for the country’ in his first reaction to his former ally’s statement calling it quits.

Greene announced she will step down from Congress on Friday in a damning four-page rant in which she savaged the president and said the state of the country ‘breaks my heart’.

Speaking to ABC News, Trump had no interest in mending fences with Greene in his first words following her resignation.

‘I think it’s great news for the country. It’s great,’ he said.

Trump also said Greene had not reached out or told him of her decision before she made the announcement.

‘Nah, it doesn’t matter, you know but I think it’s great. I think she should be happy,’ Trump said.

He said he had no plans to speak with Greene but wishes her well, despite the Georgia lawmaker branding him ‘hateful’ in her lengthy resignation statement.

Greene was candid about schism which has emerged between her and the president and likened herself to a ‘battered wife.’

She warned Republicans will likely lose the midterms elections next year and predicted she would, ‘be expected to defend the president against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me’.

‘It’s all so absurd and completely unserious,’ she said. ‘I refuse to be a battered wife hoping it all goes away and gets better.’

She said she didn’t want her congressional district, ‘to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for.’

Greene’s resignation followed a public fallout with Trump in recent months, as the congresswoman criticized him for his stance on files related to Jeffrey Epstein, along with foreign policy and health care.

Trump branded her a ‘traitor’ and ‘wacky’ and said he would endorse a challenger against her when she ran for reelection next year.

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