Well, that interview did not go as planned. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has been busy lapping up the adulation of liberal media for speaking out against Donald Trump, got snippy with “60 Minutes” journalist Lesley Stahl when the “strange new respect” did not get paid.

This interview was always destined to be a mess. Marjorie Taylor Greene has gotten more attention and press for dissing President Trump than she has ever had before. So she went on “60 Minutes” and assumed that she would dish some dirt, talk about how hard this has all been for her, and get her new dues of respect. And she did dish.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is ready to burn all her bridges, and that includes her connections to Republican colleagues.

Lesley Stahl: I’m gonna ask you about the almost solid support he has among Republicans in Congress. Is there, in that support, fear? Does the support come about because they’re afraid that they’ll get death threats?

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: I think they’re terrified to step outta line and get a nasty Truth Social post on them. Yes.

Lesley Stahl: And they’re watching what happened to you?

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: Yes.

Lesley Stahl: Behind the scenes, do they talk differently?

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: Yes.

Lesley Stahl: How?

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: Oh it’s, it would shock people.

Lesley Stahl: Well, let’s shock people.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: Okay. I watched many of my colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun of how he talks, making fun of me constantly for supporting him, to when he won the primary in 2024 they all started, excuse my language, Lesley, kissing his ass and decided to put on a MAGA hat for the first time.

MTG also claims that because Trump was mean to her on Truth Social, her son got death threats.

“After President Trump called me a traitor, I got a pipe bomb threat on my house. And then I got several direct death threats on my son,” Greene said.

“You say the president put your life in danger,” Stahl continued. “You blame him, you say he fueled a ‘hotbed of threats’ against me, and that you blame him for the threats against your son.”

“The subject line for the direct death threats against my son was his words — Marjorie Traitor Greene. Those are death threats directly fueled by President Trump.”

Greene did not mention which son it was — she has two sons, one who is 22-years-old and another who is 26, as well as a 27-year-old daughter.

She said she told Trump and Vice President JD Vance about it; Vance said he would look into the matter, while Trump said something that “wasn’t very nice.” Greene added a moment later, after Stahl pressed her for details, that what Trump said was “extremely unkind.”

CBS then ran a clip of Trump scoffing at the idea MTG’s life is in danger. “Frankly, I don’t think anybody cares about her,” Trump told reporters.

Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a thread on X the morning of this interview, specifically claiming that she has received hundreds of death threats – but notice the date.

I’m going to give you a glimpse of what it’s been like since I joined Congress on Jan 3, 2021 leading the fight on key Republican issues and for President Trump.

My office has reported 773 death threats to Capitol Police, but those were just the threats that came directly into my office via call or email, and don’t include the countless threats online to myself and my family members. We just didn’t have enough people to constantly monitor that.

These 773 death threats do not include all of the dozens of swatting calls to myself and my family members and pizza doxxings.

And through all of this, I was never given a security detail, like the secret service details the President, VP, Cabinet, Speaker, Majority Leader, Whip, Minority Leader and others have.

Not once.

If we are to believe MTG, then those 773 death threats stretch over the course of her almost five years in office, not just from the last several months. And it is a harsh truth that members of Congress, outside of leadership, do not get security details. If they want security, they have to cover that expense themselves. That applies to both sides of the aisle. MTG is not being singled out – she just wanted special treatment. She has the money to pay for her own security if she believes she needs it – and for her adult son. That she is demanding taxpayers cover it speaks to her entitlement, and the same attitude that is timing her resignation to her ability to draw a Congressional pension.

Lesley Stahl, who has asked many an awful question in the past, is clearly no fan of Marjorie Taylor Greene. So when she saw the chance to draw out some groveling from the Congresswoman, Stahl asked for it. And MTG got miffed that she wasn’t getting her “strange new respect” as ordered.

It’s been five years of almost constant drama, with her adding fuel to the nation’s loss of civility. Then, three weeks ago, she went on CNN with a surprise: a mea culpa.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN on 11/16/2025: “I would like to say humbly I’m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.”

But it became clear to us that she hasn’t entirely lost her appetite for combat.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: It’s the most toxic political culture. And, it’s not helping the American people.

Lesley Stahl: But you contributed to that. You. You, you were out there pounding, insulting people.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: Lesley, you’ve contributed to it as well with your own–

Lesley Stahl: Me?

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: -progr- yes. You’re accusatory, just like you did just then.

Lesley Stahl: I know you’re accusing me, but I’m smiling…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: You’re accusing me.

Lesley Stahl: I am accusing you.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: But we don’t have to accuse one another.

Lesley Stahl: I want you to respond to what you have done in terms of insulting people, yelling at people, and then saying.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: I’d like for you to respond for that.

Lesley Stahl: I don’t.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: No, you can respond to that…

Lesley Stahl: I don’t insult people.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: You just, you do in the way you question. And you are, you’re accusing me right now.

Let’s just say that MTG does not come off well in this segment, and you get the impression that Lesley Stahl was only there because 1) she wants to keep her job under Bari Weiss’ management, and 2) she thought that she could get Marjorie Taylor Greene to make some abject apologies – like for yelling at Joe Biden during the State of the Union, for example. When that didn’t happen, MTG gets “combative,” and Stahl gets to raise her eyebrown to the audience.

Now, Greene says she’s “done” with politics and won’t be running for Senate or governor. Raise your hand if you believe that she’s never running for office again.

lol yeah she's definitely running for president. https://t.co/FYsHswgqwZ

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 8, 2025

It would have been smarter for President Trump to just ignore this entire interview. But, unfortunately, he lives on social media – and doesn’t like Lesley Stahl, either.

Donald J. Trump Truth Social Post 09:25 AM EST 12/08/25 pic.twitter.com/yMBjuRnjcS

— Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) December 8, 2025

Marjorie Taylor Greene has less than a month left in Congress. Whatever she decides to do next, it isn’t going to be on a big scale – and any campaign for president is likely to fizzle quickly. She will be the token former Republican on cable news shows soon enough. She’s leaving the fray, so it’s time to let her dissolve into irrelevance. She said that she would be “happier” away from politics when she announced her resignation – let’s oblige her by taking her at her word.

Featured image: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, official Congressional portrait, cropped, public domain