Are we seeing the swan song of Marjorie Taylor Greene, or is this simply setting the stage for what she wants next?

In a surprise announcement on Friday evening, the congresswoman from Georgia posted a video on X – a ten minute video – informing her constituents and America that she will be resigning her seat on January 5th. However, she wishes everyone to know that she is the REAL victim here. After all, now that President Trump has withdrawn his endorsement and she will likely be primaried out, she has no political future – and dared to compare herself to a “battered wife.”

I have fought harder than almost any other elected Republican to elect Donald Trump and Republicans to power, traveling the country for years, spending millions of my own money, missing precious time with my family that I can never get back, and showing up in places like outside the New York Courthouse in Collect Pond Park against a raging leftist mob as Trump faced Democrat lawfare. Meanwhile most of the Establishment Republicans, who secretly hate him and who stabbed him in the back and never defended him against anything, have all been welcomed in after the election.

And I will never forget the day I had to leave my mother’s side as my father had brain surgery to remove cancerous tumors in order to fly to Washington DC to defend President Trump and vote NO against the Democrat’s second impeachment in 2021. My poor father and my poor mother, it was way too much.

Through it all, I never changed or went back on my campaign promises and only disagreed in a few areas like my stance against H1Bs replacing American jobs, AI state moratoriums, debt for life 50 year mortgage scams, standing strongly against all involvement in foreign wars, and demanding the release of the Epstein files. Other than that my voting record has been solidly with my party and the President.

Loyalty should be a two way street and we should be able to vote our conscience and represent our district’s interest because our job title is literally, “Representative.”

America First should mean America First and only Americans First, with no other foreign country ever being attached to America First in our halls of government.

Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for.

However, while yes hurtful, my heart remains filled with joy, my life is filled with happiness, and my true convictions remain unchanged because my self worth is not defined by a man, but instead by God who created everything in existence.

You see, I have never valued power, titles, or attention in spite of all the wrong assumptions about me. I do not cling to those things because they are meaningless and empty traps that hold too many people in Washington. I believe in term limits and do not think Congress should be a lifelong career or an assisted living facility.

I have too much self respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms. And in turn, be expected to defend the President against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me.

It’s all so absurd and completely unserious. I refuse to be a “battered wife” hoping it all goes away and gets better.

If I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can’t even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.

There is no “plan to save the world” or insane 4D chess game being played.

When the common American people finally realize and understand that the Political Industrial Complex of both parties is ripping this country apart, that not one elected leader like me is able to stop Washington’s machine from gradually destroying our country, and instead the reality is that they, common Americans, The People, possess the real power over Washington, then I’ll be here by their side to rebuild it.

Until then I’m going back to the people I love, to live life to the fullest as I always have, and look forward to a new path ahead.

I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026.

Let’s leave aside how incredibly offensive it is for MTG to refer to herself as a “battered wife” while she simultaneously claims to be “standing up” for the Epstein survivors. For someone who claims that she “never valued power, titles, or attention,” let’s all remember the cause of the rift between herself and President Trump. She apparently wanted to run for Senate in Georgia, and President Trump claimed that he told her that she was polling so badly that she would never get his endorsement. Marjorie Taylor Greene then announced this last May that she would not run for the Senate, but this was clearly the beginning of the breakup. So that’s “power and a title” that she was denied. As for attention? She’s been quite busy basking in the “strange new respect” that the media and the Democrats (but I repeat myself) have been giving her ever since her spat with Trump broke into public view. She’s got attention in spades right now, and all she had to do was say the magic words to the camera.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Humbly, I'm Sorry For Taking Part In The Toxic Politics"

"I'm committed, and I've been working on this a lot lately—to put down the knives in politics. I really just want to see people be kind to one another." pic.twitter.com/qe4EZgA3mm

— RCP Video (@rcpvideo) November 16, 2025

Why should Marjorie Taylor Greene stay in Congress? Her Congressional pension is now guaranteed – when she resigns, she will have been in elected office for five years, and will be able to draw on the pension starting at age 62. She entered Congress worth about $700,000 in January 2021, and will leave Congress with a net worth of $25 million. Doing well in the stock market is not limited to Democrats like Nancy Pelosi. With her recent groveling to recast herself as a “good” Republican to the media, she is undoubtedly looking to get herself a cable analyst seat on CNN or the now-MS NOW. With supporters like these mourning her resignation, her “strange new respect” cup doth runneth over.

Noooo. Please reconsider. We need your anti-war voice in Congress!!!

— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) November 22, 2025

Reportedly, Marjorie Taylor Greene did not inform Speaker Johnson that she planned to resign – and of course, the Republican majority in the House is razor-thin already. Now, her seat is considered “solid Republican,” so while a special election will have to be held, the seat is unlikely to flip (could the national Republicans and the Georgia Republicans find someone who isn’t a “Jewish space laser” conspiracy nut, please). President Donald Trump responded to the news of her resignation within hours.

President Trump hailed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s surprising resignation announcement Friday as “great news” for America.

“I think it’s great news for the country,” Trump told ABC News during a brief phone call.

“It’s great,” he added.

The president indicated that Greene (R-Ga.) did not share her plans with him ahead of her social media post announcing her intention to leave office on Jan. 5, 2026, and said he had no plans to speak with her.

“Nah, it doesn’t matter, you know? But I think it’s great,” Trump said. “I think she should be happy.”

The president isn’t wrong. Marjorie Taylor Greene got what she wanted out of five years of being in Congress – the Epstein Files discharge petition was passed and signed, she’s made millions in personal wealth, she has her Congressional pension to look forward to, she has name recognition and the respect of the media and Democrats (no less than Hakeem Jeffries called her an “ally” during the shutdown, and Jamie Raskin insisted that the Democrat “tent” was big enough to include MTG), and she has new “friends” like Medea Benjamin. But notice the door that she’s leaving open at the end of her statement – Marjorie Taylor Greene states that she will “help rebuild” once everything has burned down. So no, this isn’t the end. She is just going to wait until she sees a chance to jump back in again to push her concept of “America First and America Only.”

Hard pass.

Featured image: Marjorie Taylor Greene by Gage Skidmore on Flickr, cropped, CC BY-SA 2.0