With less than a month left in office, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene joined CBS journalist Lesley Stahl for a "60 Minutes" interview, which aired Sunday.
Greene explained the lead-up to her sudden resignation from Congress, effective Jan. 5, 2026 — one year before the end of her third term in office. The pair also discussed Greene’s hand in the Epstein files release, the president’s commitment to an “America first agenda” and her deteriorated relationship with Donald Trump.
The crumbled Trump-Greene friendship
After the U.S. struck Iranian nuclear facilities in June, Greene began criticizing President Trump for not focusing enough on domestic policy.
Greene made similar criticisms of the president during the “60 Minutes” interview.
“For an America first president, the No. 1 focus should have been domestic policy, and it wasn’t. So of course I was critical, because those were my campaign promises — once we fix everything here, then we’ll talk to the rest of the world," she said.
Mid-November, Trump announced he no longer supported Greene as a representative of Georgia, in a lengthy Truth Social post. “All I see ‘Wacky’ Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!” he said, after Greene appeared on The View.
The next day he wrote, Greene “betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned Left, performed poorly on the pathetic View, and became the RINO that we all know she always was.”
Greene told Stahl she received a “pipe bomb threat” at her house and “several direct death threats” directed at her son, after Trump called her a traitor to the Republican Party.
She added that when she told Trump and Vice President JD Vance about the threats, Vance said they would look into it. Then, “I got a response back from President Trump that I will keep private, but it wasn’t very nice,” she said.
Greene’s hand in releasing the Epstein files
Greene joined three other Republicans in siding with Democrats to force a House floor vote on releasing the Epstein files.
Trump was “extremely angry with me that I had signed the discharge petition to release the files,” Greene told Stahl on Sunday.
“He said that it was going to hurt people,” Greene said, adding that she didn’t know what that meant or who Trump was referring to.
She also said she urged him to bring the Epstein victims to the White House. “I told him, you have all kinds of people who come in the White House — have these women come in. ... These women deserve to be heard," she said.
The Epstein files are due to be released by Dec. 18. Ultimately, the House voted 427-1 in favor of releasing the files, and Trump signed the bill on Nov. 19.
Greene says she has no future political endeavors
Greene said she has “zero plans” and “zero desire” to run for president. “I would hate the Senate. I’m not running for governor,” she said.
“I mean you just jumped off the cliff, and you don’t know where you’re going to swim to,” Stahl said.
Greene responded, “Um, surprise, surprise. I’m not your politician with a whole itinerary of plans or political ambitions.”
Trump responds to the show on Truth Social
In a Truth Social post Monday morning, Trump wrote a 250-word review of the show.
“Marjorie is not AMERICA FIRST or MAGA, because nobody could have changed her views so fast, and her new views are those of a very dumb person,” he said. He added, “She sort of reminds me of a Rotten Apple!”
Trump’s only “real problem” with the segment was that CBS’s parent company “would allow a show like this to air,” he said.
He referenced Paramount’s $16 million settlement paid to him in July for a “60 Minute” interview with Kamala Harris. “THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP, who just paid me millions of Dollars for FAKE REPORTING about your favorite President, ME! Since they bought it, 60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE!” he said.
He concluded, “I hereby demand a complete and total APOLOGY, though far too late to be meaningful, from Lesley Stahl and 60 Minutes for her incorrect and Libelous statements about Hunter’s Laptop!!! President DJT.”