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Marjorie Taylor Greene spent her final days as a member of Congress reflecting on how she was led astray by President Donald Trump, who she now claims was not committed to helping his constituents.
in the long Introduction to the New York Times In an article published on Monday, she detailed the beginnings of her break with Trump and how it evolved during the first year of his second term.
incendiary georgia representative Announced she will leave Congress on January 5 among her growing discord Her dissatisfaction with the president and her work in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. Her exit would give House Speaker Mike Johnson a slimmer majority in the House. Green told The Hill era She once believed Trump was “the people’s man,” but her views have “mature.”
“I was so naive and outside of politics that it was easy for me to naively believe [in him]” she said. According to Greene, what changed her mind was seeing the darker side of the president’s character up close. She highlighted the president’s remarks at Charlie Kirk’s funeral, where Trump spoke. Seemingly mocking Kirk’s rejection of hate in politics, “I hate my opponents and I don’t want what’s best for them,” she told the audience. She also cited the president’s decidedly lukewarm response to threats to her son’s life — and said she was to blame for her own betrayal of Trump.
“That was the absolute worst statement,” Greene said of Trump’s remarks at the funeral. “It just shows where his heart is. That’s the difference, she has a sincere Christian faith and proves that he doesn’t have any.”
It was one of the congresswoman’s most personal criticisms of the president yet, and she went on to accuse Trump and Johnson of being out of touch with Americans, especially on issues like economic hardship and the cost of living. While Greene’s criticism focused primarily on policy, she also noted that her office received a wave of threats after her feud with the president and blamed Trump’s own personal bullying for the threats. In recent interviews, Greene said she recognized the role she played in accelerating American politics’ descent into a toxic wasteland and regretted MAGA’s contribution to that dynamic.
She reiterated this belief to everyone era According to the newspaper, in early December: “Donald Trump has trained our side to never apologize and never admit that they are wrong. You just keep hitting your enemies no matter what. As a Christian, I don’t believe in doing that. I agree with Erica Kirk, she did the hardest thing and said it out loud.”
Her hesitance to smear hasn’t stopped the outgoing congresswoman from criticizing Trump’s priorities in her final days in office. Over the past few months, Greene’s longstanding skepticism of foreign intervention or aid of any kind has made her one of the leading critics of Republican support for the government of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, including Israel’s brutal siege of Gaza over the past two years. The congresswoman has repeatedly argued that Trump is more focused on foreign policy goals than his domestic agenda, aiming to cut federal government costs and address the economic woes of voters who elected him over Kamala Harris in 2024.
She is also one of the few Republicans to openly defy Trump over the release of Jeffrey Epstein documents.
In two tweets on Sunday and Monday, Greene reiterated those arguments, one of which read: “DOGE is one of the most popular programs in the 24th century campaign because Americans are so angry about an insane amount of waste, fraud, and abuse. This is blatant theft. That’s why I created the DOGE subcommittee… [p]Maybe now the Speaker and the administration will take DOGE more seriously. “
In another tweet, Green expressed regret for Trump’s back-to-back meetings with Netanyahu and Monday’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago, exclaiming: “Can we be America?”
Her criticism of Trump’s own social and political circles era reveals a broader distaste for Trumpism and the public image MAGA chooses to project to the world at Mar-a-Lago and in the media.
“I never liked the sexualization of MAGA Mar-a-Lago,” she told the outlet Second-rate. “I have two daughters, and I’ve always been uncomfortable with the way women pout their lips and enlarge their breasts.”
To some political observers, however, the feud between Trump and Greene appears to have been long-standing. The Georgia congresswoman has frequently made embarrassing Republican headlines for her past embrace of conspiracy theories, including an oft-derided instance in which she suggested space equipment controlled by the wealthy Rothschild family could be behind U.S. wildfires, sparking the “Jewish Space Laser” meme.
In Georgia, there are two major political battles in 2026: Jon Ossoff’s race for a U.S. Senate seat and the gubernatorial election. Trump, a champion of Republican primaries, has been known to even abandon loyalists if he thinks they are weak general election candidates, as is the case with Winsome Earle-Sears in the 2025 Virginia election.
Greene confirmed earlier this year that a survey commissioned by longtime Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio found her losing the Senate race by double digits and appeared to be already working for one of her potential opponents. Although she angrily denied reports that Trump himself had urged her not to run for Senate, Fabrizio’s loyalty could also be seen as a Trump trademark.
Trump hits back at congresswoman Attacked Green Called him “crazy” and claimed he was considering endorsing a primary challenger in her congressional district before she chose to resign.