With less than a week left in Congress, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is not going quietly.
The firebrand Georgia Republican, who has announced she will resign from the House on January 5, is using her final days in office to lob increasingly personal and political attacks at Donald Trump — accusing him of abandoning “America First,” prioritizing foreign leaders over struggling Americans, and even questioning the sincerity of his faith.
Greene’s departure will further weaken House Speaker Mike Johnson, leaving him with an even slimmer Republican majority and a caucus already teetering between moderates and hardliners. But for Greene, the math on Capitol Hill appears secondary. Her focus, even from afar, is squarely on Trump.

U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene speaking with attendees at the 2021 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. photo by gage skidmore
In a profile published Monday by the New York Times, Greene traced the origins of her break with the president to a moment she described as deeply revealing: Trump’s remarks at the funeral of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. According to Greene, Trump mocked Kirk’s rejection of political hatred, telling attendees, “I hate my opponent and I don’t want what’s best for them.”
“That was absolutely the worst statement,” Greene said. “It just shows where his heart is.” She contrasted her own “sincere Christian faith” with what she described as Trump’s lack of one — one of her most personal critiques of the president to date.
The comments come amid Greene’s broader claim that Trump and Republican leadership are out of touch with Americans struggling under rising costs and economic anxiety. While much of her criticism has focused on policy, Greene has also said her clash with Trump sparked a wave of threats against her office — threats she blames on what she calls Trump’s culture of personal bullying.
In recent interviews, Greene has gone further, acknowledging her own role in the toxicity of modern politics and expressing regret over the movement she once helped amplify.
“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong,” she told the Times. “You just keep pummeling your enemies, no matter what. And as a Christian, I don’t believe in doing that.”
Even so, Greene has not softened her blows.

Over the past several months, she has emerged as one of the Republican Party’s loudest critics of U.S. support for Benjamin Netanyahu, particularly over Israel’s devastating military campaign in Gaza. A long-standing skeptic of foreign intervention, Greene argues Trump has prioritized overseas meetings over domestic cost-cutting and relief for voters who helped return him to office in 2024.
She reprised that argument this week after Trump hosted Netanyahu and then Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago. “Can we just do America?” Greene wrote on X.
In another post, she invoked the Department of Government Efficiency — DOGE — which she helped create as a House subcommittee, arguing Trump and Johnson have failed to take it seriously despite its popularity with voters furious over “waste, fraud, and abuse.”
Greene has also broken with Trump over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, accusing powerful figures of protecting accomplices and shielding uncomfortable truths — a rare act of defiance in a party where loyalty to Trump often remains absolute.
Her critiques extend beyond policy. Greene told the Times she has long been disturbed by what she called the “MAGA Mar-a-Lago sexualization,” saying the aesthetic of Trump’s social circle made her uncomfortable as a mother of two daughters.

Trump, for his part, has responded with characteristic fury, branding Greene “Marjorie Traitor Greene” and mocking her intelligence and motives. Political observers say the feud was years in the making. Greene, once one of Trump’s most loyal defenders, has also been a source of persistent embarrassment for Republicans — most notably for her past embrace of conspiracy theories, including the infamous “Jewish space lasers” claim.
Looking ahead, Georgia looms large. The state will host a high-stakes Senate race and a gubernatorial contest in 2026, and Trump’s role as a Republican kingmaker remains decisive. Greene has acknowledged that polling commissioned by Trump’s longtime pollster Tony Fabrizio showed her losing a potential Senate bid by double digits — a sign, she suggested, that Trumpworld may have already moved on.
For now, Greene is still in office. And with days left on the clock, she appears determined to make every one of them count — torching alliances, questioning the movement she helped build, and leaving Congress in the same combative fashion that defined her rise.




