Trump sided with Brigitte Macron, and Owens has not forgiven him for it.
The falling out between Donald Trump and Candace Owens has been building for months. It became impossible to ignore on April 24, 2026, when Trump posted a doctored TIME-style magazine cover on Truth Social branding Owens Vile Person of the Year. The fake cover included taglines accusing her of using rich white men and protecting sex offenders. Trump accompanied the image with a written statement calling her attacks on French First Lady Brigitte Macron despicable and describing Owens as an extremely low IQ individual whose stock had never been particularly high to begin with.
Owens responded on social media within hours, posting a single line suggesting it was time to put the president in a retirement home. The following day, she devoted a full episode of her podcast to addressing Trump directly, questioning his mental fitness and framing his post as a betrayal.
What the Candace Owens and Brigitte Macron dispute is actually about
Owens has promoted the theory that Brigitte Macron is secretly transgender through her podcast series. The claims have no credible evidentiary basis and have been widely debunked. In July 2025, Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron filed a defamation lawsuit against Owens in Delaware Superior Court. Owens has refused to retract the allegations, saying her research draws on the work of a French blogger, and has announced plans to seek a third-party examination of the French First Lady as part of the litigation.
Trump’s intervention came after Macron reportedly raised the issue directly with the president during a White House visit. Trump wrote online that Brigitte Macron was a far more beautiful woman than Owens and that it was not even close, and expressed hope that Macron wins her defamation case. He also described Owens as a crazy person and an attention-seeking NUT JOB willing to say anything for cheap publicity.
How the Candace Owens split with Trump actually developed
The Macron dispute was the match, but the kindling had been accumulating since Trump’s escalation of the Iran conflict. Earlier this month, Owens branded Trump a genocidal lunatic and called for his removal via the 25th Amendment after Trump threatened to destroy Iranian civilization. In March 2026, she went further, urging active duty troops to reconsider military service given the direction of the war.
Owens then posted that Trump was willing to sacrifice American lives for what she described as a foreign policy agenda, tying the death of Charlie Kirk in September 2025, which she has attributed without firm evidence to Israeli foreign policy, directly to the president’s Iran strategy. Trump’s White House called the 25th Amendment campaign from Owens and others an attempt by anti-war agitators to undermine the mission.
Trump has also attacked other former allies including Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Alex Jones for criticizing his Iran policies. Owens is the latest, but the pattern is consistent.
Marjorie Taylor Greene and the response from the right
Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from Congress after her own public falling out with Trump, pushed back on his post about Owens, saying it demonstrated his contempt for women who do not defer to him and warning that such attacks would turn the majority of women in America against him. Greene argued that the post bore the fingerprints of Trump’s inner circle and described it as politically self-destructive.
The response from other corners of conservative media has been more muted. Owens built much of her audience on proximity to Trump and the MAGA movement. That proximity is now a liability, and she has since relocated her podcast operations to an independent studio and announced plans for what she described as a full exposure of conservative influencers she believes have sold out the American worker. l
The Macron defamation case continues. No hearing date has been set publicly, and Owens shows no sign of backing down. Trump, for his part, has not returned to the subject since the Truth Social post. The feud has not resolved. It has simply gone quiet for now, which in this particular dynamic is not the same thing as over.