Marjorie Taylor Greene has described how some fellow Republicans dramatically shifted their attitude toward Donald Trump once he secured the party’s 2024 primary victories.
In a 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday, Dec. 7, the 51-year-old congresswoman was asked by Lesley Stahl whether her Republican colleagues were essentially “afraid” of how Trump, 79, might react if they didn’t behave a certain way around him.
Greene replied that some Republicans in Congress were “terrified to step out of line and get a nasty Truth Social post on them,” saying Trump’s social media criticism was enough to keep many in check.
After noting how much support Trump enjoys inside the Republican conference, Stahl pressed further, asking, “Behind the scenes, do they talk differently?”
“Yes … oh, it would shock people,” Greene answered. When Stahl encouraged her to elaborate — “Well, let’s shock people” — Greene described what she had seen.
“I watched many of my colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun of how he talks, making fun of me constantly for supporting him, to when he won the primary in 2024, they all started — excuse my language, Lesley — kissing his ass, and decided to put on a MAGA hat for the first time,” Greene said.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. After the interview aired, Trump posted on Truth Social again attacking Greene, calling her a “traitor” and insulting her as a “Rotten Apple” and a “very dumb person.”
Greene’s appearance on 60 Minutes was her first major sit-down since she announced last month that she plans to resign from Congress in January 2026.
She has represented Georgia’s 14th congressional district since January 2021 and was once one of Trump’s staunchest allies, backing his agenda throughout his time in office and beyond. In recent months, though, their relationship has frayed, with Greene openly criticizing some of Trump’s choices — including what she viewed as his administration’s reluctance to fully release records related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In November, Trump publicly declared that Greene had “lost her way” and pulled his endorsement. He also labeled her a “traitor” the day after she said she was “being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world.”
On Nov. 21, Greene announced that she would step down from Congress effective Jan. 5, 2026, saying that the way she had been treated by members of her own party was “unfair” and “wrong.”
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During her 60 Minutes interview, Greene also said Trump was “furious” with her over her push to make more Epstein-related documents public.
Recalling a phone call with the former president, Greene said, “We did talk about the Epstein files, and he was extremely angry at me that I had signed the discharge petition to release the files,” referring to a House effort that forced a vote on legislation to publish all government documents connected to Epstein.
After the bill quickly cleared both the House and Senate, Trump ultimately signed it into law despite previously trying to block it. The measure directs the Justice Department to release all records related to Epstein and the investigation into his 2019 death in federal custody within 30 days, according to the Associated Press.
“I fully believe those women deserve everything they’re asking,” Greene told Stahl, referring to Epstein’s victims. “They’re asking for all of it to come out. They deserve it. And he was furious with me.”
When Stahl pressed Greene on what, exactly, Trump said to her, Greene paused before responding: “He said that it was going to hurt people.”
