After President Trump turned down Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s career ambitions, she turned on him and has been trying to play up to the Left. After being welcomed by The View, she got the ultimate honor of a profile from the New York Times.
‘I Was Just So Naïve’: Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump – New York Times
Rep. Greene is many things, ‘naive’ was never one of them.
Instead she tries to pretend to the New York Times that Charlie Kirk’s murder led her to see that fighting the Left was wrong.
Exactly the opposite of what Charlie stood for.
“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong,” she told me in her Capitol Hill office one afternoon in early December. “You just keep pummeling your enemies, no matter what. And as a Christian, I don’t believe in doing that.”
That sounds like Mitt Romney. And it’s no coincidence.
This is the really telling moment.
Four days later, she joined the hosts of “The View,” ABC’s popular morning show that takes a mostly liberal stance. One person who was on the set told me that the hosts were braced for combative dialogue, but Greene told me that she instantly felt comfortable in their company. “Those women were the same type of women that have always been my friends. College-educated, affluent suburban women — that’s who I am. So I couldn’t wait to talk to these ladies. I was so tired of the toxic politics.”
Let’s flash back to that ‘naïve’ line.
More than a year after that dinner, I asked Greene: “Was there ever a point before 2025 where you thought: You know what? Trump acts like a man of the people, and he talks about the forgotten men and women of this country, but I’m not so sure.”
“I was just so naïve and outside of politics,” Greene said with a wince of a smile, “that it was easy for me to naïvely believe.”
Rep. Greene isn’t describing Trump, she’s describing herself. She played that role before deciding that she had gone as far as she could in MAGA and now wants to hang out with The View because they are “the same type of women that have always been my friends. College-educated, affluent suburban women — that’s who I am.”
There’s a name for that and it isn’t naïve. It’s a political chameleon. A shameless political chameleon who’s bad at it.
