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But his exceptions to the conservative line, while far less numerous, were often striking. Rebutting his party in 2010, he and a dozen other Republican senators helped ratify a strategic arms reduction treaty negotiated by the Obama administration with Russia. It cut in half the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers on both sides.

Mr. Isakson, normally a reserved Republican, was often at odds with Mr. Trump in his 2016 presidential campaign, especially over his refusal to distance himself from the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

As the nation paid tribute to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his national holiday in 2018, members of the King family gathered at his Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and denounced Mr. Trump, who had often used what were widely regarded as racist slurs and who, only days earlier, had reportedly used shocking terms to describe Haiti and African countries.

Mr. Isakson, in a statement, called it a day to “honor and remember the leadership and wisdom of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose legacy continues to make a positive difference in the lives of many people in our state and around the world.” As for Mr. Trump’s comments on Haiti and African nations, he said: “That is not the kind of statement the leader of the free world ought to make, and he ought to be ashamed of himself.”

In March 2019, seven months after Senator John McCain died, Mr. Trump was still mounting posthumous attacks on the Arizona maverick, who had been a Navy pilot and prisoner of war for five years in Vietnam. Before a military audience in Lima, Ohio, Mr. Trump, who had never served in the military, blamed him for “a war in the Middle East that McCain pushed too hard.”

“It’s deplorable what he said,” Mr. Isakson told Georgia Public Broadcasting. “It will be deplorable seven months from now if he says it again, and I will continue to speak out.”