Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene told Bill Maher on Friday night that she believes extraterrestrials could be “fallen angels” — demons who were cast out of heaven.
The Georgia Republican appeared on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher as part of a panel that also included filmmaker Dan Farah and journalist Michael Moynihan. What began as a conversation about UFOs and government secrecy turned into a moment that left Maher visibly stunned.
Maher asked the panel whether they believed demons or the devil were real. Greene didn’t hesitate. “Absolutely,” she said. “I’m a Bible-believing Christian. And I believe those could be fallen angels.”
Maher pressed her: “Fallen angels? The aliens are fallen angels?”
“That’s possible,” Greene replied. “That’s what makes sense in my worldview.”
The exchange came after Maher discussed Farah’s new documentary, The Age of Disclosure, which explores theories that some U.S. military officials have linked reports of UFOs to possible supernatural origins.
Greene’s comments drew a quick rebuke from Moynihan, who simply said, “No, I’m sorry,” when asked if he agreed.
In recent months, Greene has criticized Republican leadership on issues including health care, government spending, and the handling of documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein. Even so, popping up on Real Time shows just how far away she’s grown from the mainstream GOP.
Later in the interview, Maher revisited one of Greene’s most notorious controversies: her 2018 Facebook post suggesting that California wildfires were caused by a “space laser” linked to the Rothschild banking family — a claim rooted in antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Greene told Maher she didn’t realize the Rothschilds were Jewish at the time she made the post. “Before politics, I did not know much of any of this stuff,” she said. “I never even said the word ‘Jewish’ in the post.”
Maher responded, “ ‘Rothschild,’ to a lot of people, is almost synonymous with the word ‘Jewish.’”
“I had no idea,” Greene replied. “Now I know it’s Jewish.”
Maher, laughing along with the audience, quipped, “Right. Well, now we know. That’s what I’m here for — to make sure that people in Congress know what the [expletive] you’re talking about.”
Greene’s appearance seemed to reinforce her reputation as one of the most polarizing figures in American politics — a lawmaker whose populist instincts sometimes cross partisan lines, even as her conspiratorial past continues to follow her.
In the span of a few minutes, she managed to challenge the Republican establishment, distance herself from her own words, and suggest that aliens might be demons — all while insisting she’s simply telling the truth as she sees it.
