US President Donald Trump is unable to keep the America First policy as his top priority and instead sees actions for major industries and the big donors, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said. In a recent interview with CBS News’ 60 Minutes, Greene accused President Trump of forsaking his MAGA base after their relationship fractured. She said she believed he had failed to keep domestic policy as his top priority, pointing specifically to his support for the crypto and pharmaceutical industries rather than measures to aid the American people.Greene broke with the president on issues of affordability and foreign affairs, citing the high cost of living in her district and nationwide. During the government shutdown she sided with Democrats to extend health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, a move she never expected to undertake. She also became the only Republican member of Congress to publicly characterise the war in Gaza as a “genocide” and voted against the Antisemitism Awareness Act despite having previously voted to denounce antisemitism.Greene said in her resignation video that “those are the areas that are still getting everything they want, while 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.’”She criticised the congressional exercise on antisemitism. “It becomes an exercise that they force on Congress, and I simply got tired of it,” she said, later adding, “We don’t have to get on our knees and say it over and over again.”
Republicans in Congress mocked Trump privately
Greene accused other Republicans of fearing a harsh response from the president on Truth Social. “I think they’re terrified to step out of line and get a nasty Truth Social post on them,” she said, noting that some colleagues who once mocked Trump have since reverted to “kissing his ass” and wearing a MAGA hat. Greene herself said, “MAGA is President Trump’s phrase. That’s his, his political policies. I call myself America First.”She also said that the Republicans privately makes fun of Trump only to come around to support him when he won their party’s 2024 White House nomination, outgoing GOP House member Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Sunday. “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 ass,” Greene, a Georgia Republican, said in a clip of an interview that is set to air on Sunday.
Epstein files
On the release of files concerning Jeffrey Epstein, Greene said the president was “extremely angry” that she had signed the discharge petition. “He said that it was going to hurt people,” she recalled. “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. These women deserve to be heard.’”
‘Received death threats after Trump called her lunatic’
Greene said she received death threats after Trump called her a “lunatic” and a “traitor.” She claimed there was a pipe bomb threat to her home and direct threats 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 said. She informed both the president and the vice president; Vice President JD Vance told her they would look into it, while the president’s response “wasn’t very nice,” which Greene described as “extremely unkind.”Despite her split from Trump and decision to resign, Greene’s popularity in her home district remains strong. She refuted reports that she plans to run for president, saying she has “zero desire” to campaign for the position. “I would hate the Senate. I’m not running for governor,” she told correspondent Lesley Stahl. Of her future plans, she concluded, “Surprise, surprise, I’m not your politician with a whole itinerary of plans or political ambitions.”
