Few figures in recent American politics have generated as much controversy—or as many headlines—as Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. Once a stalwart defender of former President Donald Trump and an outspoken advocate for the January 6 defendants, Greene’s tumultuous relationship with her party and her own political identity has recently taken a dramatic turn. The saga, unfolding over the past few months, has left both allies and critics scratching their heads and asking: What happened to Marjorie Taylor Greene?
On December 6, 2025, Greene led a congressional delegation to a Washington, D.C. jail, where she and fellow far-right Republicans, including Colorado’s Lauren Boebert, visited defendants held in connection with the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. According to the Associated Press, Greene high-fived detainees and shook their hands, while the group chanted “Let’s go Brandon!”—a phrase widely recognized as an insult to President Joe Biden. The visit, which lasted about two hours, was not Greene’s first; she had previously championed these individuals as “political prisoners,” a stance that set her apart even among her party’s most vocal members.
The tour drew sharp criticism from Democrats, who joined the visit to “hold their Republican peers to account,” as California Representative Robert Garcia put it. “We won’t let Marjorie Taylor Greene and these ... extremists tell lies about the insurrectionists and their attack on our democracy,” Garcia stated before the group entered the jail. The visit became yet another flashpoint in the ongoing culture wars surrounding the events of January 6 and their aftermath.
But Greene’s advocacy was only one chapter in a year marked by political upheaval and personal transformation. For much of her tenure, Greene was a fierce and sometimes polarizing defender of Trump, often taking positions others in her party shied away from. Her loyalty seemed unshakeable—until it wasn’t.
The first public signs of trouble surfaced in the wake of Greene’s ambition to run for the U.S. Senate from Georgia. Trump, ever the pragmatist, reportedly withheld his endorsement after his team presented data suggesting that Greene’s appeal was limited outside her congressional district. According to reporting from HotAir and corroborated by NBC News, this perceived snub triggered a dramatic rift between the two. Greene, feeling slighted, began to distance herself from Trump and, in the eyes of some observers, from her former political persona.
The falling out quickly became public. In November 2025, Trump declared, “I don’t know what happened to Marjorie Taylor Greene, but she has lost her way and I view the presidency as a worldwide situation that requires war not to come to our shores.” Days later, in a Truth Social post, Trump escalated the rhetoric, calling her “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown (Green turns Brown under stress!),” and adding that she had gone “BAD” after being “JILTED” by him. He finished with a stinging assessment: “She sort of reminds me of a Rotten Apple!” and later described her as “a very dumb person.”
Greene, for her part, did not take the attacks lying down. In a December 10 interview with CBS News, she responded, “I actually am starting to feel very sorry for President Trump. It’s actually a very poor reflection on him that he chooses to speak about me that way.” She went further, warning that Trump’s repeated insults toward female reporters were “something that women all over the country pay attention to.” Greene added, “I think the Republican Party needs to take a hard look at it, because the Republican Party has a very difficult time with women voting for them.”
Her critique didn’t stop there. Greene told CBS, “It’s unfortunate that President Trump thinks loyalty is a one-way street. It’s really not. I do feel sorry for him, because I think he’s extremely unaware, and I don’t know how he can be unaware about this, but he’s not aware of how it makes him really look.”
Greene’s willingness to speak out against Trump was on full display during her appearance on 60 Minutes with Lesley Stahl. She described her Republican colleagues as “terrified to step out of line” with Trump for fear of “a nasty Truth Social post on them.” When Stahl pressed her about the private attitudes of congressional Republicans, Greene replied, “Yes … oh, it would shock people,” before recounting how many had shifted from mocking Trump to donning MAGA hats after his 2024 primary win. “Excuse my language, Lesley—kissing his ass, and decided to put on a MAGA hat for the first time,” Greene said.
The public feud with Trump was not the only sign of Greene’s shifting political ground. In late 2025, she began appearing on left-leaning media outlets such as The View and 60 Minutes, platforms that had previously been hostile to her. Even more surprising to some was her association with Code Pink, a left-wing activist group with alleged ties to foreign entities. Critics on the right, including Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, raised alarms about Code Pink’s activities, and the move left many of Greene’s former supporters baffled.
In the midst of this turmoil, Greene announced on November 21, 2025, that she would resign from Congress, effective January 5, 2026. She cited “unfair” and “wrong” treatment from her own party as the reason for her departure. The timing of her resignation—just after qualifying for her congressional pension—did not go unnoticed by commentators on both sides of the aisle.
As Greene’s former allies criticized her for abandoning her principles, some on the left welcomed her new positions, if only cautiously. Yet, as one observer dryly noted on social media, “She’s meant only to be a momentary sideshow act to entertain those elitists. The girl’s a trainwreck, but yay! It’s not our problem, and I, for one, am delighted she self-deported.”
In the end, Greene’s journey from Trump loyalist to outspoken critic—complete with public feuds, media makeovers, and a dramatic resignation—has left her political future uncertain. Her story is a cautionary tale about the perils of political ambition, the volatility of party loyalty, and the unpredictable nature of American politics in the 2020s. Whether Greene’s next act will bring redemption, irrelevance, or something else entirely, only time will tell.
