US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a press conference alongside alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein at the US Capitol in September. Photograph: Bryan Dozier/ Middle East Images/ AFP via Getty Images

“This one!” gushed Donald Trump. “I never, ever, want to have her as my enemy. Marjorie Taylor Greene. She is so unbelievable.”

He was speaking in the thick of the 2020 election at a campaign rally in Georgia, where Taylor Greene’s unassailable rise towards a seat in Congress had caught Trump’s eye. He’d anointed her as “a future Republican star” that August.

As it turned out, Taylor Greene moved into her office on Capitol Hill after the election that Trump lost, leading to exile in Florida while MTG became one of the most visible MAGA political symbols and a fearsome defender of his legacy and return.

But this weekend, the enmity which Trump jokingly declared he would never wish for has arrived - with bells on.

To the many interest groups Taylor Greene has castigated and insulted - and it’s a broad church - her post on X on Saturday about security warnings for her personal safety and “aggressive rhetoric attacking me” and “death threats” contained, at the very least, a full-circle irony.

Since her election five years ago, few political figures have issued verbal broadsides with the frequency and no