Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is trying to turn a political corner.
The Republican lawmaker — long known for amplifying conspiracy theories and picking fights on cable news — told colleagues she is seriously considering a run for president in 2028. At the same time, she’s distancing herself from one of the movements that defined her early political rise: QAnon.
During an appearance on The View this week, Greene said she no longer believes in the baseless conspiracy theory, which she once publicly embraced. When co-host Sunny Hostin asked if she still believed in QAnon, Greene waved her hand dismissively. “Oh, I went over that a long time ago,” she said.
“So you’ve changed?” Hostin pressed.
“Well, no, I haven’t changed,” Greene replied. “I was a victim, just like you were, of media lies and stuff you read on social media.”
It’s a striking statement from a politician who once boosted QAnon-linked claims that school shootings were staged and that California wildfires were caused by “Jewish space lasers.” Greene later apologized for those remarks in 2021, after reporters unearthed old social media posts in which she had spread the theories. “Along the way,” she said at the time, “I stumbled across something called QAnon. I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true.”
Still, her appearance on The View signaled a new phase — one in which Greene seems to be testing what a mainstream version of herself might look like. In recent months, she’s toned down the culture-war rhetoric that once made her a conservative lightning rod, focusing instead on issues like healthcare, U.S. relations with Israel, and the ongoing government shutdown.
Sources close to Greene told the political outlet NOTUS that she’s raised the idea of running for president in private conversations with colleagues, positioning herself as a defender of “real MAGA” values and criticizing what she sees as a drift within the Republican Party.
Even so, Greene continues to draw sharp lines — often at the expense of her own party. She has openly sparred with GOP leadership over spending negotiations and lashed out at Republicans who criticized her recent TV appearances. “Mostly paid social media influencers,” she called them, adding that the “pathetic Republican men” attacking her had lost touch with voters.
Her comments on The View also hinted at a complicated relationship with Donald Trump, the figure she’s long described as her political north star. “Donald Trump, he usually yells at everybody,” she said with a shrug. “So we’re all used to it.”
Greene insists she hasn’t changed, despite the public shift in tone. “Everybody’s like, ‘Marjorie Taylor Greene has changed,’” she told The View hosts. “And I’m like, oh no, nothing has changed about me. I am staying absolutely, 100 percent true to the people that voted for me.”
Whether voters — or the Republican Party — agree is another question entirely.
