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.
She’s trying a bill gates, An arc from an evil psychopath to a reborn philanthropist where gullible people will defend her image.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
You’re doing that thing where you think everyone is the same as you. And you saw it coming.
Some people saw it earlier, some saw it later, some still havent seen it.
But empathy isn’t a weakness it’s a strength. So please stop acting like a Republican and understand our opponents even if the only reason is it helps us win.
What you’re doing now hurts our chances of winning, even though that’s probably not your intent you’re helping trump.
Username checks out.
While I agree with the broad strokes of what you’re saying about empathy, it’s important to remember that people like this (or if we’re being generous, the people she was like until just now) see empathy from their adversaries as a weakness to be exploited.
One can be empathetic without being a naive chump. When anyone has caused the amount of harm MTG has, forgiveness comes only after they have atoned. If she puts half as much money and effort into repairing the damage she’s done as she put into causing the damage in the first place, then and only then can we talk about letting bygones be bygones.
If that atonement never materializes (and call me a cynic but I doubt it will) then this is just the same old conservative playbook of “now that I’ve stomped all over other people to get what I want, it’s time for togetherness”.
the people she was like until just now) see empathy from their adversaries as a weakness to be exploited.
I’m not saying to feel sorry for her…
I’m saying these people hold their views out of ignorance and none of them are a lost cause.
And unless someone is doing something to prevent them from voting, they’re still going to ignorantly keep voting R.
It’s not about if they deserve to be helped, it’s that everyone else deserves to stop being hurt by them. And if we don’t understand how they think, well never change enough of their minds.
The billionaires want blind tribalism, doing what they want only helps them.
You’re doing that thing where you believe what a republican is saying. This bitch has learned nothing, but has realized she has more to gain by breaking ranks. She is abusing your empathy, and you are letting her. Stop it.
This bitch has learned nothing, but has realized she has more to gain by breaking ranks.
“She hasn’t learned anything except this thing she just learned!!”
Zero logic and pure emotional angry is exactly what the billionaires want, something they’ve spent longer than either of us have been alive combined pushing …
And you’re just gobbling it up and regurgitating it all everyone else, and managing to act smug because you thing divisive propaganda most of us ignore is a secret knowledge only a chosen they can see…
But I’m sure none of that is gonna sink in.
And I’m sure you’ll keep preaching to come together and love the people who want to murder innocents because of their sexuality, skin colour or religion. You can’t reason with fascists, it has never in the history of the world worked.
You can’t reason with fascists, it has never in the history of the world worked.
What?!
Do you think we had to kill every German citizen after WW2?
Or do you ascribe to reality and understand after we broke the propaganda virtually all of them came around?
And despite all of that, and there’s a lot of that…
Rather than actually do anything you’ve chosen to spend you time only discouraging people?
Buddy…
If you understood what you’re doing, I’m pretty sure you’d be very disappointed in yourself.
Germany put the responsible people on trail, executed the worst of them and imprisoned the rest. We’re talking about one of the major politicians behind the fascist takeover, yes, she should be put on trial and be imprisoned for crimes against the people, and she should be met with the exact same fate she would throw her opposition to, like when she called for the execution of Nancy Pelosi. She should absolutely fucking not be excused with “Oh I know she has been lying every single day throughout her career, spreading hate and fear, but I’m sure she’s really sorry now!”. Fuck your bullshit, and fuck that fascist cunt.
She is breaking with Trump, because she knows she will never be able to get the power she wants through him, so she is trying to act like she has always been a moderate. She has never been a moderate, she is just as bad as the rest of them, and she is lying to you.
Germany put the responsible people on trail, executed the worst of them and imprisoned the rest
And you seem to be drastically overestimating how many that was, even counting the ones that weren’t done by Germany
But clearly I was talking about German citizens…
I dunno man. I just don’t think there’s anything I can say to help you understand anything. Best of luck though.
Was she naive about Jewish space lasers, controlling the weather or the parkland shootings too?
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?That’s his only friend.
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.
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.
How much is NYT being paid to rehabilitate her image?
NYT giving this cunt a platform. Fuck right on off.
I bet she was also naive about the leopards and how they’d eat people’s faces too.
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
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".
“naive” isn’t the same as “willfully-ignorant”.
