When Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced on the daytime show The View that she “loves” Donald J. Trump — yet admitted the feeling might not be fully reciprocated — The View divas ate it up.
“I do love him,” Greene said, calmly, when asked about Trump during her appearance. And when co-host Joy Behar pressed whether there was “tension” between her and the president and whether he might not “love” her back right now, Greene answered: “Well, that’s OK.”
It’s a remarkable admission from someone who has called Trump her “favorite president.”
“Donald Trump, he usually yells at everybody, so we’re all used to it,” Greene added. “But he’s the president of the United States.”
Greene reminded her hosts: when she ran for Congress in 2020, it wasn’t just to support Republicans. “A lot of people on the left are learning that … I ran criticizing Republicans and Democrats equally,” she said. “Because I come from a working-class family … and I represent a district that is a rural, manufacturing district — blue-collar workers and people have been crushed by decades of failure in Washington, D.C. — and so I have no problem pointing fingers at everyone.”
Greene made clear she is “staying absolutely, 100 percent true to the people that voted for me, and true to my district.” She laughed when Behar suggested: “Maybe you should become a Democrat, Marjorie.” Her reply? Simple: “No, I’m not a Democrat.” She trusts neither party: “I think both parties have failed,” she declared.
And that’s the core of her break-with-the-pack moment. Yes, she remains a strong Trump supporter. But she’s no longer content to echo every party line. She’s criticized congressional leadership, calling them “weak Republican men” and — yes — “mostly paid social-media influencers,” when asked “name names.” She clarified the “weak Republican men” remark was often referring to House and Senate leadership.
“A lot of people wanted me to come on the show and say nasty things. They wanted all of us to fight,” she said. “I didn’t want to do that today, because I believe that people with powerful voices — like myself and like you, and especially women-to-women — we need to pave a new path in this country.”
“Our beautiful country. our red, white and blue flag is just being ripped to shreds, and I think it takes women of maturity to sew it back together.”
