Marjorie Taylor Greene came to Congress with bright MAGA dreams as one of President Donald Trump’s biggest allies. Now she has a new perspective.
President Trump condemns 60 Minutes interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene
President Donald Trump condemned CBS’ 60 Minutes interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared on America’s No. 1 talk show, “The View,” on January 7, two months after her bitter feud with her former ally, President Donald Trump, to seek sympathy and reconciliation.
The Georgia congresswoman returned to the Hot Topics table Wednesday for her first exclusive interview since her shocking January 5 resignation from the House.
“The straw that broke the camel’s back for me was the president calling me a traitor for standing with women who were raped as teenagers,” Greene said, referring to women who say they were exploited in connection with Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring. “One of MAGA’s big campaign promises was to release the Epstein files.”
Green added that he quit Congress after he began to wonder if he could become “the second Charlie Kirk.” Charlie Kirk was a conservative activist who was assassinated by a lone gunman during an event on a Utah campus in September, authorities said.
Asked by the committee’s legal hawk Sunny Hostin if she was distancing herself from Trump to protect her own political future, Greene said, “No, I do not intend to pursue a future in politics.”
“I’ve said it over and over until I’m exhausted: I’m not running for the Senate, I’m not running for governor, I’m not running for president,” Greene told Hostin, declining to say whether she would leave the Republican Party.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s last days have passed
On a casual Friday night in November, Greene announced her resignation from Congress. “I’m back with my loved ones, living life to the fullest as I always have, and looking forward to a new path ahead,” she said on Nov. 21.
“As a member of Congress, I have always represented ordinary American men and women, which is why I was always despised in Washington, D.C., and why I never fit in,” Greene said.
A week earlier, on November 14, President Trump criticized Greene in a post on Truth Social. “She has gone far to the left, even appearing on ‘The View,'” the president wrote, referring to Greene’s previous appearance on the show, which features a panel of daytime media’s strongest critics.
The following month, on December 28th, in an Instagram video post, a strikingly serene Green, wearing a bright blue bikini and carrying a paddleboard, walked across the rippling sand into the waves of Costa Rica. Ms. Greene, who just got engaged to 56-year-old far-right White House correspondent Brian Glenn, was all smiles. “I’m 51 but I feel like I’m 24 again,” she captioned the post.
“The water was a little choppy today, but it wasn’t bad at all,” Green told the camera in the video. “It’s really beautiful.” Despite an eventful year, Ms. Green was planning to return to “The View” panels in the new year.
“Those were the same types of women who had always been my friends,” she said in a New York Times profile published Dec. 29. I morning. So I couldn’t wait to talk to these women. I was tired of toxic politics. ”
On January 5th, Mr. Green’s last day as a public servant came and went. There was little hype about Greene’s resignation from Congress after the Trump administration detained Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro over the weekend.
‘Absolutely not’: MTG rejects Trump reunion
The day she first walked out of the House of Commons was the fifth anniversary of the day that made her famous. During the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, Greene was denying the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which former President Joe Biden defeated Trump.
Her former opponent, Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Dallas, was the featured guest on “The View” on the anniversary of the Capitol riot.
“I just hope she changes,” Crockett told the hosts of “The View.” “I don’t fully believe it, but honestly, I hope people will give her a break because she’s doing something that most boys would be scared of.”
Nearly two years after Mr. Crockett called Mr. Greene a “bleach-blonde flimsy” for insulting her false eyelashes, Mr. Crockett continued to praise his former enemy, saying he had the courage to stand up to Mr. Trump.
The next day, during a taping for her Jan. 7 appearance on the show, Greene reunited with a group of wealthy, college-educated women living in the suburbs. Greene told “The View” that she doesn’t want to be involved in politics anymore because “politics has become so extreme and divisive.”
She also accused House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republican Congressional leaders of having a “women’s problem.”
“I would argue that not only does[Trump]not have a good reputation with women, but the Republican Party has a women’s problem,” Greene told co-hosts Hostin, comedian Joy Behar, host Whoopi Goldberg, former Trump press secretary Alyssa Farrar Griffin, and Midwest-born moderate Sarah Haines.
“Those of us Republican women who have served in the House of Representatives have been vocal about that,” Greene said during a panel discussion. “There are many others.”
New York Rep. Elise Stefanik and South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, members of Mr. Johnson’s leadership team who recently announced they were leaving Congress, have criticized their male Republican colleagues in recent months.
When her co-host asked about her future, Green replied, “I have no plans. This is one of the happiest things I’ve been through in a long time,” adding that she was looking forward to seeing her mother, aunt and friends.
“If he asked you to come back, would you come back?” Behar asked, referring to Trump.
“Who? My ex-husband?” Green joked about her father-of-three Perry Green, whom she split from in 2022. “No, I’m just kidding.”
“Absolutely not, the way he treated me,” Greene said of Trump. “no.”
Green, whoever it is, feels like he has found himself again.
