House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has acquired a critical defender.

Speaking in a radio interview on Monday, former President Donald Trump sought to take the heat off of the embattled speaker, who remains on the receiving end of a tireless campaign to evict him from his job by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

“Well, look, we have a majority of one, OK?” Trump said. “It’s not like he can go and do whatever he wants to do. I think he’s a very good person. You know, he stood very strongly with me on NATO when I said NATO has to pay up. … I think he’s trying very hard.”

The former president also praised Johnson for the arbitration regarding Ukraine aid that will feature $9 billion in the form of forgivable loans. That matches a usual Trump sentiment in which he has hesitated to give foreign countries money that likely will not be repaid.

Greene has continually threatened Johnson with a motion to vacate and has received support from a handful of House Republicans, including Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), though she has received more ire from her party as a whole.

“Mike Johnson’s speakership is over. He needs to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. If he doesn’t do so, he will be vacated,” Greene told Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures.

Trump, who is presently dealing with a media circus surrounding his hush-money trial, declined to attack House Republicans for their lack of unification across the party on the Israel-Hamas war and foreign aid as a whole.

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“My judgment and estimation is that this is not the time to do that,” Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) told the Hill regarding Johnson’s potential ouster.

Trump will face a Tuesday hearing in his trial that will determine whether the former president violated gag orders in social media posts that attacked likely witnesses.