Why Marjorie Taylor Greene shouldn’t let Trump bully her out of Congress | Opinion
I loathe nearly everything Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has stood for:
Since taking office in 2021, the Republican congresswoman has promoted Jan. 6 (and other) conspiracy theories, made racist and anti-LGBTQ statements and compared COVID-19 mask policies with the Holocaust. Before she won her Congress race, she had promoted more falsehoods; getting elected didn’t stop the lies.
And yet, I encourage her not to quit in January because of President Donald Trump. Let me explain.
She announced plans to resign from Congress Friday evening in a video message and published statement. Her reasons ranged from blaming Congress – and House Speaker Mike Johnson – for inaction towards her bills on redistricting, making English the official language, medical policies on trans minors, eliminating H1-B visas and others.
Again, I disagree with these bills, and I’m happy they weren’t brought to the floor for a vote. But lower in her message, and what seems to be the real meat of her resignation, is how she is being treated by Trump. She goes as far as to call herself a “battered wife hoping it all goes away and gets better.”
That’s offensive to a real battered wife, but I have to ask, can a woman, any woman, in the U.S. Congress really believe the president to be like an abusive husband? And if so, this is where the danger lies.
So, I say to Taylor Greene: Don’t just hope it goes away and gets better. Stay and fight this man and his cronies. Sure, Trump might harm your reelection efforts by stumping for your opponent, but that’s next year. You’re in Congress now and if you really believe in what you stand for (I can’t believe I’m writing this), you should stay and make a difference.
Don’t leave because the commander in chief (who is not your boss, by the way) is a bully. Don’t give him that much power over you.
I’d say this to any senator or representative, male or female, but I’m saying it to this woman because of how much mistreatment Trump has shown women in power throughout his entire career. Does she want to be one more woman on his trophy pile of tyranny?
What is MAGA, anyway?
There’s more.
Her statement seems to reveal that she is rethinking what she believes: Just what is MAGA, anyway? She said her party should have fought harder to “save American health care and protect Americans from outrageous overpriced and unaffordable health insurance policies.”
She described Washington’s interests as “corporate and global,” not caring about regular American people.
And Taylor Greene says in the video, “Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the president of the United States, whom I fought for.”
Yes, she’s talking about the Epstein files.
She goes further about Trump: “I have too much self-respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms. And in turn, be expected to defend the president against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me.”
We get it, the man you supported has turned on you. It’s hateful and even embarrassing. Maybe you are concerned that he could turn people against you, to harm you. We’ve seen it happen before, most recently to the six congressional Democrats who called on the military not to perform unlawful orders.
And let’s not forget the times that you, too, have called for violence in the past.
But you are a Republican congresswoman, one of only 31. Across the aisle, there are 91 women, nearly triple the amount – not to mention hundreds of men. Does that matter to you? Do you really want to retreat from all that you espouse?
I haven’t believed in anything Taylor Greene has fought for, but here I am, suggesting that she stay – especially if she seems to be backing off some of Trump’s MAGA hate.
And this is assuming that she is sincere – and that’s a big assumption based on some of the whoppers to come out of her mouth: In 2018, she said that the California Camp Fire wildfires could have been caused by “like lasers or blue beams of light causing the fires” and that it was somehow connected to Jewish elites and California’s governor working on a high-speed rail project.
And what about when she claimed that Hurricane Helene was pushed toward Republican neighborhoods by the government in an effort to affect the election in 2020?
But I’m one to give someone the benefit of the doubt, especially when they receive the kind of treatment that they’ve tried to dish out. Lessons learned? Perhaps.
Saturday, Trump called her a traitor on Truth Social, but told NBC News that he’d like to see her return to politics at some point.
If nothing else, this is another example of a Trump loyalist getting the backhand of the president. Loyalty doesn’t equal trust — especially in someone who calls women “piggy.”
This story was originally published November 23, 2025 at 5:09 AM.
