Given that she has three more years to polish her image, MTG could just have a realistic chance at becoming the first female U.S. president, with or without the support of Donald Trump.
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After a brutal fallout with U.S. President Donald Trump, Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene has confided to allies that she is considering running for president in 2028, TIME reported. But can she win without Trump’s blessing?
A tough, hard-right maverick who forged a reputation as one of Trump’s most strident defenders, Marjorie Taylor Greene, also known by her initials MTG, has become an unexpected detractor of the President in recent months. She has challenged Trump’s stance on the economy, slammed his support of Ukraine and Israel, which clashes with the ‘America first’ mantra, and, most recently, demanded that he release the Epstein files over his initial objections.
And just as things were starting to get very hot in the political kitchen, Greene abruptly resigned from Congress, effective January 5, in a 10-minute video post that went viral on YouTube.
“Nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman,” she began in her passionate farewell speech. “Small businesses continue to be swallowed by big corporations… The average American family can no longer survive on a single breadwinner’s income, as both parents have to work in order to simply survive.”
Towards the end of the delivery, Greene described her fallout with Trump as “absurd and completely unserious. I refuse to be a battered wife, hoping it all goes away and gets better.”
All things considered, those do not sound like the words of a “battered wife” who is prepared to just casually walk away from America’s myriad domestic problems. Although Greene has not officially announced her intentions to run for the highest office in the land, her resignation speech sounded far more like the first pitstop of a presidential campaign.
Meanwhile, Trump, who has little patience for people who oppose his worldview, cheered her departure from the U.S. political scene, calling it “great news for the country.” Asked by ABC News whether Greene had informed him beforehand of her decision, he responded: “Nah, it doesn’t matter… but I think it’s great. I think she should be happy.”
The rift between Trump and Greene began to reveal itself in June as the Trump administration was moving to attack Iran in the belief it was working on a nuclear bomb. Greene aligned herself with both “America First” isolationists and far-left progressives who opposed the march towards war with the Islamic State. “Americans don’t want to bomb Iran because the secular government of Israel says that Iran is on the verge of developing a nuclear bomb any day now,” she said in a tweet.
Greene added in the message that she doesn’t “know anyone that even thinks about Iran” in her political district.
The chasm between Greene and Trump became unbreachable as the two clashed over the release of the Epstein files, which are known to contain many references to the U.S. leader, whose friendship with the late financier spanned some 15 years. While Trump attempted to brush off the files as a “Democrat hoax,” Green, fully attuned to which way the political winds are blowing, demanded that the files connected to the convicted pedophile be released immediately.
Trump, who begrudgingly signed off on the release of the documents (which will certainly be redacted to the point of irrelevancy), responded by labeling Greene a “traitor” and publicly disowning her. “I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia,” he wrote on Truth Social.
Greene described the decision to brand her a “traitor” as dangerous as it could attract extremists. “Those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger,” she said, describing the episode as the most combative argument yet in their relationship.
Aside from the question ‘can Greene win the presidency without the support of Trump,’ there remains the question of Greene’s political background and qualifications. Is she really presidential material? While there can be no doubt about her convictions and ability to articulate them, some have called into question her eccentricities as a problem.
On September 3, 2020, while campaigning for the House seat, Greene shared a meme to her Facebook page depicting herself holding an AR-15 style rifle alongside the images of Democratic House lawmakers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. She wrote that it was time for “strong conservative Christians to go on the offense against these socialists who want to rip our country apart;” the caption under the meme was “Squad’s worst nightmare,” a reference to the progressive left-wing faction of the Democratic Party in the U.S. House of Representatives.
For a woman who speaks about her fear of “political violence,” it was an odd choice of messaging. Within hours, Facebook deleted the meme for violating its policies on inciting violence, prompting Greene to claim that Democrats were trying to “cancel” her. While some might say that Greene went too far with the post, that is exactly the sort of in-your-face Trump-style maneuver that will attract right-wing voters who have become jaded with America’s relentless wokeness and political correctness.
On another occasion, Greene, who has endorsed the conspiracy theories that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were “an inside job,” and that the Sandy Hook school shooting was staged, said that the 2018 California wildfires – the deadliest and most destructive blaze in state history – were started by the Rothschild’s family in order to clear land for a rail project. The media quickly picked up on the story, saying that Greene had used the term “Jewish space lasers,” an allegation which she denies.
Despite such temporary setbacks, Greene remains popular with a large slab of the Make America Great Again crowd, and continues to poll in third place behind Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the next possible U.S. president. Given that she has three more years to polish her image, MTG could just have a realistic chance at becoming the first female U.S. president, with or without the support of Donald Trump.
