Outgoing firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene overtly speculated that President Trump lacks spiritual beliefs and slammed the “sexualization” of girls at his lavish Mar-a-Lago membership in a blistering collection of interviews.
Greene mirrored on Trump’s beautiful remarks on the memorial service for late conservative icon Charlie Kirk, by which the president was bowled over at how the Turning Level USA founder “wished the most effective” for his enemies.
“That’s the place I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent, and I don’t need the most effective for them,” Trump declared on the identical September memorial the place Erika Kirk powerfully forgave the sicko who killed her husband in chilly blood.
“That was completely the worst assertion,” Greene instructed the New York Instances. “It simply reveals the place his coronary heart is. And that’s the distinction, together with her [Erika] having a honest Christian religion, and proves that he doesn’t have any religion.”
Trump was raised Presbyterian however has described himself as a non-denominational Christian. All through his political profession, the president has leaned closely on help from evangelical Christians.
After a bullet got here inside 1 / 4 inch of killing him throughout his rally in Butler, Pa., final 12 months, Trump has stated that he’s change into “extra of a believer” and feels that he was “saved by God.”
Greene had been one among Trump’s most ardent supporters all through most of her profession in Congress, after she was first elected in 2021.
She publicly decried the arrests and therapy of the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, backed Trump’s doubtful claims that the 2020 election was stolen, and even briefly garnered some buzz that she could possibly be his VP decide final 12 months.
Her reward of Trump had been effusive, commending his seems to be, dubbing him “THE GREATEST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY,” and calling him “genuinely kind-hearted and caring about everybody.”
However that started to vary final spring, when she slowly started splitting from him on some points at an growing tempo. Trump has claimed he set her off by sending her a ballot indicating she wouldn’t fare effectively if she ran for governor or Senate.
Greene denied that Trump instructed her to not run, however introduced she wouldn’t in Could. Tensions between the 2 reached a tipping level final month when Trump yanked his endorsement for her reelection bid and publicly lashed out at her. She introduced she’d step down on Jan. 6, 2026, shortly thereafter.
“Our aspect has been educated by Donald Trump to by no means apologize and to by no means admit once you’re incorrect,” Greene bemoaned about Trump’s grip on the GOP.
“You simply maintain pummeling your enemies, it doesn’t matter what. And as a Christian, I don’t imagine in doing that. I agree with Erika Kirk, who did the toughest factor doable and stated it out loud.”
She later added: “For lots of MAGA, Trump is a savior, and he’s like a god to them.”
Whereas wanting again on the causes of her falling out with Epstein, Greene concluded that “it was Epstein. Epstein was every part.”
She alleged that, privately, Trump opposed her studying out the names of a number of the males tied to Epstein who abused girls, telling her, “My mates will get damage.”
Greene additionally took challenge with the aesthetic of girls at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership, contending that they’re oversexualized.
“I by no means favored the MAGA Mar-a-Lago sexualization. I imagine how girls in management current themselves sends a message to youthful girls,” the congresswoman stated.
“I’ve two daughters, and I’ve at all times been uncomfortable with how these girls puff up their lips and enlarge their breasts. I’ve by no means spoken about it publicly, however I’ve been planning to.”
When requested for touch upon Greene’s withering critique, White Home spokesperson Davis Ingle blasted her for “quitting on her constituents in the midst of her time period and abandoning the consequential struggle we’re in.”
“President Trump stays the undisputed chief of the best and quickest rising political motion in American historical past — the MAGA motion,” Ingles stated.
“We don’t have time for her petty bitterness.”
