Key takeaways

• The polemical politician is leaving Congress on January 5 after her disagreements with Donald Trump and congressional Republicans escalated over the Epstein files last year.
• But before then, Greene voiced a lot of misgivings about Trump, the GOP, and the future of the MAGA movement, which she revisited in interviews for a New York Times Magazine article published last week.
• Greene outlined the ways she thinks Republicans under Trump have failed to deliver on the MAGA promises they made to voters last year, squandering the united control Republicans have of government and betraying key MAGA principles.

Today, the controversial congressional career of Marjorie Taylor Greene comes to end — at least for the foreseeable future.

But before her exit, she got a few more jabs in at President Donald Trump. First, in a wide-ranging New York Times Magazine profile last week, the retiring Georgia representative reignited her feud with the president, admitting to being “just so naïve” about Washington politics since being sworn in and lamenting the wasted potential of the MAGA movement by a do-nothing Congress.

“How did all of this end up to a point,” she complained to the Times’s Robert Draper about her party’s handling of the Epstein files, “where it was about releasing files about women who were raped, and not the serious things that I think truly matter about helping to get our economy stabilized again? Help reduce the cost of living, fix the housing market, fix health insurance — for the love of God, what the [expletive] is the matter with these people?”

Then, following the news from Caracas, she posted the following (lengthy) denunciation on X:

I’ve served on the Homeland Security Committee for the past three years. I’m 100% for strong safe secure borders and stopping narco terrorists and cartels from trafficking deadly drugs and human trafficking into America.

Fentanyl is responsible for over 70% of U.S. drug…

As the weekend progressed, the outgoing member of Congress kept up her critiques, saying in an interview with NBC’s

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