In a bombshell conversation with 60 Minutes, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia distanced herself from her former home in the MAGA movement and sounded off on her political future, in what was her first in-depth interview since announcing last month she will resign from Congress in January amid an ongoing public feud with President Donald Trump.
During the interview, Greene said she considered herself “America First” versus MAGA, which she called “President Trump’s phase,” and accused the president of failing to deliver on his promises to voters by siding with corporate allies over regular Americans.
”The people, we're still out here saying, 'We want to see action on areas for the American people, not for the major industries and the big donors,'" Greene told anchor Lesley Stahl.
Throughout the year, Greene has hammered Trump and split with the GOP on a variety issues, including siding with Democrats to support extending Obamacare subsidies during shutdown negotiations and backing a bipartisan effort to force the government to release more of the Epstein files.
She doubled down on her criticism of some party members, claiming Republicans on the Hill mocked Trump behind his back but now pretend to be supporters out of a combination of political opportunism and a fear of reprisal.
open image in gallery“I watched many of my colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun of how he talks, making fun of me constantly for supporting him, to when he won the primary in 2024, they all started — excuse my language, Lesley — kissing his a** and decided to put on a MAGA hat for the first time,” she said.
Despite the president saying he wants to see Greene succeed in politics in the future, her alliance with him seems definitively over, as do her political ambitions.
While rumors of a potential 2028 presidential bid swirl, she told Stahl she has “zero desire” to seek the White House, adding she would “hate” being in the Senate and is not running for Governor.
"And I'll have face to face conversations with people and I'll flat out tell them to their face, and they won't believe me. And they're like, 'Oh yeah, sure.' They'll wink at me and I'm like 'OK.' It's like, I don't know how to make it more clear,” she told Stahl.
She added: "Surprise, surprise….I'm not your politician with a whole itinerary of plans or political ambitions."
On Trump, she claims that after he branded her a “traitor,” people started making threats against her and her family.
Greene faced a pipe bomb threat to her home, she said, as well as threatening messages to her son.
"The subject line for the direct death threats on my son was his words, 'Marjorie Traitor Greene.' Those were death threats," she told 60 Minutes.
The Georgia firebrand added that she reported the threats to the White House, prompting what she said was an “extremely unkind” response from Trump.
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open image in galleryDuring the interview, Greene also opened up about the behind-the-scenes conversations she said she had regarding the Epstein scandal with Trump. The rep claims Trump wanted to prevent the release of files because he said it would “hurt people.”
"I had asked him, 'These women are the ones that were hurt. They were raped at 14. They were raped at 16. I watched them stand in front of the press trembling, their bodies shaking as they were telling their stories, many of them for the first time.' And I had told him, I said, 'You know, you have all kinds of people come in the White House, have these women come in the White House,” Greene said. “These women deserve to be heard.'"
The Independent has contacted the White House for comment.
