Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Not a Fan of Mar-a-Lago Face

With less than a week left in Congress (god willing), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is spending her last days pulling out all the stops to tell the story of her fall from MAGA, talk about the soul-searching she’s been doing since, and ranting about how much she disapproves of the nightmare aesthetic that’s possessed her colleagues’ faces. This would all have been much more useful one, two, or five years ago when you first took office, but go off, I guess, Marj.

In a two-part interview with the New York Times this week, MTG discussed how Charlie Kirk’s death woke her up to MAGA’s “toxic culture; how she was just a naïve politician when she was a devout follower of Trump’s; and why she “never liked the MAGA Mar-a-Lago sexualization.” “I believe how women in leadership present themselves sends a message to younger women.” (This, coming from the elected official who called Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-Co.) a “nasty little bitch” in 2023.) “I have two daughters, and I’ve always been uncomfortable with how those women puff up their lips and enlarge their breasts. I’ve never spoken about it publicly, but I’ve been planning to.”

MTG might get a tiny point for commenting on the scary rise of conservative beauty practices—which has been so intense these last couple of months that Axios reported how plastic surgeons were having to turn away a surge of requests for procedures relating to the “Mar-a-Lago face,” defined by facelifts, eyelid surgeries, fillers, and Botox. So yeah, I don’t blame the congresswoman for feeling like the last year at her job felt like playing a round of the Scary Maze Game.

But I will continue to blame her forever for the consequences of her actions of the last five years—all of which helped propel MAGA into what it is today. “I was just so naïve and outside of politics that it was easy for me to naïvely believe,” she said when the NYT asked about whether she ever questioned her undying support before 2025. Ah, yes, the naïve 46-year-old. Struck in her prime.

Despite being one of his biggest lackeys, MTG has broken with Trump on multiple issues since he’s returned to office, like disagreeing with the administration’s decision to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, pushing for the release of the Epstein files, and recognizing the situation in Gaza as a genocide. As a result, Trump resorted to name-calling MTG, dubbing her “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene” in November, which she claims led to a surge of death and bomb threats against herself and her family.

“For a lot of MAGA, Trump is a savior, and he’s like a god to them,” she continued. But again, this is coming from someone who was once one of these “worshippers,” and even likened the president to Jesus and Nelson Mandela in 2023. She also once likened mask mandates to the Holocaust. Oh, and in 2021, she spread an antisemitic conspiracy theory about laser beams starting wildfires. And nearly two years after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, she said that if she had organized the insurrection, it “would’ve been armed” and “we would have won.” We could go on and on, but there’s not enough space on the internet.

I’m glad MTG has broken free of Trump and MAGA’s spell. But while she never succumbed to the Mar-a-Lago face, she already infected half the country with her Mar-a-Lago brain…and they’re not exactly rushing to break free.

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