Greene gives lengthy interview with New York Times days before stepping down as congresswoman for Georgia
Marjorie Taylor Greene, now just days away from stepping down as a congresswoman for Georgia, has said in her latest mea culpa interview that she “was just so naive” for believing that Donald Trump was a man of the people.
In a lengthy interview with the New York Times that examines her break with the president after years of devotion, Greene explained that a series of minor ruptures with the president culminated in a total breach after conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was killed in September.
The third-term Georgia congresswoman said she was watching Kirk’s memorial service on TV when his widow Erika said she forgave her husband’s killer. But then Trump took the stage to say that unlike Kirk – “a missionary with a noble spirit” who did not “hate” his opponents, Trump said he disagreed.
“I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them,” Trump said.
Naive my ass. She knew exactly who he was the whole time. It was just her turn to get vilified and boohoo, how could he do this TO ME?!?! Leopards, yada yada
I could give her the benefit of the doubt, she seems extremely stupid. Doesn’t excuse anything she’s done or said though
I don’t think she’s as stupid as people make her out to be.
She’s shown herself to be relatively adept at playing her political hand, doing things that will play well to her constituency while making money on insider trading. She timed her resignation to make sure she still draws a Congressional pension.
She’s actually quite brilliant in the manipulation department. The fact you’re giving her the benefit of a doubt displays how good at it she truly is.
After meeting with victims, she claimed, Trump called her and yelled “my friends will get hurt” if the files were released.
His friends and him.
Are you kidding? His only other friend was already hurt by this, they killed themselves.
Who killed themselves? Sure as shit wasn’t Epstein, Epstein did not kill himself.
Epstein is the only person who’s ever called Trump, “friend”.
And, where is he now?
I wanna make this abundantly clear:
MTG was fully aware of and supportive of every single fucking thing Trump has done, promised to do, and will do.
This is all a facade and she is only undertaking it because she is part of the population of GOP politicians that is no longer confident Trump can steal the 2026 and 2028 elections.
Not just that, but because she lost her standing within Trump’s circle. She’s being pushed out hence why she’s suddenly acting like this. She’ll still support Republican policy that is rooted in racism, misogyny, and bigotry as long as she has more power than she previously had.
She’s still a Nazi.
Green said that her turn away from unrepentant Maga acolyte came in that moment and she abandoned her training “to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong”.
I’m sorry, are we all just glossing over the casual mention that there’s MAGA training to never apologize or admit you’re wrong? I assumed this was their unofficial playbook, but this is the first I’ve ever heard of an actual training being mentioned.
It comes from Bannon and Roger Stone, so it is indeed the officially unofficial playbook
Handed down to Trump by Roy Cohn.
She has stated repeatedly that her political opponents are evil devil worshippers who should be executed. Nothing she says should ever be taken as legitimate or true.
The giveaways to billionaires were pretty subtle if you have oatmeal for brains.
the word “giveaway” implies he’s giving them something he already had-- no, he’s literally robbing the 99% in order to pay the 1%
Robfefehood
NYT giving this cunt a platform. Fuck right on off.
She went from a net worth of about 300k to over 20 million in 5 years. Totally normal on a public servant salary.
Try “willfully ignorant” or " maliciously stupid".
Was she naive about Jewish space lasers, controlling the weather or the parkland shootings too?
“naive” isn’t the same as “willfully-ignorant”.
Strange way to spell “opportunistic sleaze”…
Despite her protestations, when you realize that this is what she really means, you will also realize that she has not changed at all.
You’re not naive, you’re an evil, ignorant, opportunistic waste of skin & oxygen that knew she could get rich riding on Trump’s populist coattails & is now jumping ship like the other rats since he’s shown his true face & 1/2 of his moronic base finally figured out that they are in fact the baddies.
Meet the 2028 presidential candidate lol
Between her and JD Couch Fucker, they’ve got a HOT bench /s
Don’t worry. The Democrats will come up with a totally useless ticket that will make them seem viable. My money is on Cuomo/Sinema or something equally atrocious.
Newsome and Gillibrand
Newsome and Fetterman
The only way they could pick someone as VP that is more reviled by nearly everyone would be to pick Kyrsten Sinema. Who started in the Green Party, by the way. Being affiliated with that party should probably be considered a red flag at this point.
Maybe Kirsten Gillibrand is nearly as toxic, for those that remember her when it comes to Al Franken.
Between Fetterman, Sinema, Cuomo, and Gillibrand it’s hard to pick which one is more annoying.
Newsom and Hochul
They’ll run a Clinton/Occasio-Cortez ticket for the bulk of the year and then change it to Newsom/Cuomo in the last three weeks. If anyone can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory it’s the opposition party we call the Democrats.
Don’t you think Cuomo would be just a bit too obvious, even assuming your conspiracy theory of Democrats trying to lose is true?
Democrats trying to lose is as much a conspiracy theory as gravity is the force that keeps you from floating away when you jump in the air.
That’s just dumb
Newsom is the Next Man Up. Anyone else who runs in the Primary is really just auditioning for VP.
He’s certainly the establishment pick.
It’s not jd you need to worry about.
It’s Tucker and Owens
The much longer NYT article that The Guardian is pulling from:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/magazine/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-maga-split.htmlArchive link:
https://archive.ph/zTlk0Thanks for sharing! The NYT article takes it easy on MTG, but I’m hoping it might resonate with one or two family members that can’t get enough OAN.
Yeah, the NYT article is extensively written but essentially a puff piece, IMO. Its author got a bit schooled in the comments; almost all the top ones are about what was omitted (like her net worth before and after) as opposed to what was written. But everyone who’s been paying attention already knows all that, so if mainstream media finally helps someone come over from the dark side even in spite of themselves, that’s probably a win at this point. Good luck with your folks.
True statement and thanks! It’s really hard to break through the walled garden, and I’ll take any crack I can give it.
