Peeling Off MTG
Robert Draper did a 1,000-word piece describing the Four Takeaways of his much longer magazine profile describing Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump. It focuses on four steps in the process, which he presents out of chronological order:
- “Trump’s speech at Charlie Kirk’s memorial was a clarifying moment,” because it contrasted Erika Kirk’s forgiveness with Trump’s lack of Christian faith
- “Greene’s demands to release the Epstein files seemed to be the last straw for Trump,” because MTG’s threat to reveal the names of those who abused Epstein’s victims would hurt Trump’s friends
- “Her disillusionment with Trump goes beyond the Epstein files,” in which Draper lumps tariffs and Gaza but focuses primarily on the way Trump’s stochastic terrorism led to threats against MTG’s son
- “Greene said she was wrong for accusing Democrats of treason in the past,” which simply doubles down on the apology MTG made already on CNN and explained that MTG realized Christians don’t do such things
I don’t doubt that Draper thinks of the transformation he describes as dominated — bullets one and four — by MTG living by her faith, but the word “Christian” only appears in the 8,100-word profile six times.
And word frequency is just one tell that Draper may be indulging MTG’s own retroactive reconstruction of it.
The profile is based on interviews that took place earlier this month, though as Draper recounts, he has been covering MTG closely since 2021 and met with her repeatedly before this month. The Kirk memorial with which Draper began both his profile and his Four Takeaways occurred on September 21. He describes MTG’s perception of the difference between Erika’s forgiveness and Trump’s doubling down as the moment when, “the stress fracture that had been steadily widening between Greene and her political godfather became an irrevocable break.”
But his stress fracture comment introduces a paragraph listing five policy splits with Trump, most of which predate the Kirk memorial, the most important of which — her support for releasing all the Epstein files — predates the memorial by several weeks and gets its own paragraph here and a more focused treatment later.
- Declaring the war in Gaza a “genocide”
- Objecting to cryptocurrency and artificial-intelligence policies that, from her perspective, prioritized billionaire donors over working-class Americans
- Criticizing the Trump administration for:
- Approving foreign student visas
- Enacting tariffs that hurt businesses in her district
- Allowing Obamacare subsidies to expire
- Argu[ing] that all investigative material pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein should be released
Much later, the profile describes that well before the Epstein break came the realization that Trump does not return loyalty (including a campaign disloyalty similar to the one that drove Elise Stefanik’s later break), followed by Trump’s targeted harassment when MTG opposed his cryptocurrency graft.
She considered running against Senator Jon Ossoff but announced in May that she had decided not to.
Greene’s stated reasoning at the time was that “the Senate is where good ideas go to die.” But the week after her announcement, The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had shared with her a survey from his pollster, Tony Fabrizio, projecting that Ossoff would beat her by 18 points. Later, Trump would claim in a Truth Social post that their split “seemed to all begin” when he sent her the poll — suggesting, in effect, that Greene was pouting over his lack of support: “All I see ‘Wacky’ Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!” Greene insisted to me, “It wasn’t about a Fabrizio poll.” She added: “I never had a single conversation with the president about it. Instead, he told me all the time, ‘You should run for governor — you’d win.’”
Still, Greene told me, it began to dawn on her that when it came to the president, loyalty is “a one-way street — and it ends like that whenever it suits him.” Being disabused of the idea that subservience would be rewarded appeared to have a liberating effect on her.
In June, Greene did an about-face on the president’s One Big Beautiful Bill after conceding that she voted for it without realizing that it contained a provision that would prevent states from enforcing restrictions on artificial intelligence for a period of 10 years. If the Senate did not strike the moratorium from the bill, Greene publicly warned, “when the O.B.B.B. comes back to the House for approval after Senate changes, I will not vote for it with this in it.” On July 1, the Senate voted to sever the provision from the bill, which Trump signed into law three days later.
Greene broke again from Trump on July 17, arguing on X that his cryptocurrency bill could permit a future president to “TURN OFF YOUR BANK ACCOUNT AND STOP YOUR ABILITY TO BUY AND SELL!!!!!” This time, Trump made his displeasure known to her — and to her peers.
That same day, Greene and roughly a dozen other House Republicans who also had reservations about the bill were summoned to the Oval Office. In Greene’s recollection, Trump focused his wrath on her. “When you have a group of kids,” she said, “you pick the one that is the most well behaved, that always does everything right, and you beat the living shit out of them. Because then the rest of them are like: ‘Oh, man, holy shit. If Dad does that to her, what would he do to me?’” A White House spokeswoman disputes that the meeting was contentious. “Not surprising to me at all,” Greene replied when I informed her of this. “They have major problems, and it’s only starting to build.”
That all preceded the date when MTG signed the Epstein discharge petition, which Tom Massie initiated in July, the day before Trump told her that his friends would get hurt if she exposed their names.
After the hearing, Greene held a news conference at which she threatened to identify some of the men who had abused the women. (Greene says that she didn’t know those names herself but that she could have gotten them from the victims.) Trump called Greene to voice his displeasure. Greene was in her Capitol Hill office, and according to a staff member, everyone in the suite of rooms could hear him yelling at her as she listened to him on speakerphone. Greene says she expressed her perplexity over his intransigence. According to Greene, Trump replied, “My friends will get hurt.”
When she urged Trump to invite some of Epstein’s female victims to the Oval Office, she says, he angrily informed her that they had done nothing to merit the honor. It would be the last conversation Greene and Trump would ever have.
Along the way, Draper inserts something between the Epstein break and the Kirk epiphany and the ultimate break: the 8-week recess, during which MTG stewed as she heard complaints about affordability from her constituents.
But there was one more important ingredient.
As noted, Draper describes the evolving relationship he had with MTG. He first flew down to Rome, GA, in 2022, and honored MTG’s confidences, which built trust. She blew off a meeting for drinks during last year’s convention because Trump was giving her pride of place at the Convention, but shortly thereafter met with a NYT team and scoffed at their claim Trump would pursue retribution. Draper persisted with someone who adhered to the axiom that real news was fake for years.
There are a lot of lefties who hate this profile: They feel it goes easy on her (and given the Christian reconstruction, I’d agree). They see it as a willingness to let MTG rebrand herself, even while it foregrounds her transphobia. They hate the glam photo of her, which nevertheless provides helpful context to MTG’s claim she always opposed the plastic femininity of Mar-a-Lago (and provides a useful contrast with the still fresh Karoline Leavitt portrait).
In particular, she told me recently: “I never liked the MAGA Mar-a-Lago sexualization. I believe how women in leadership present themselves sends a message to younger women.” She continued: “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.”
I would add that Draper still treats Trump as the actor — Trump banished MTG, rather than she stood her ground in face of his demands.
It has been tempting for some observers to predict that the meteoric crash and burn of the MAGA movement’s loudest champion signals the beginning of the end for its leader as well. But it is Greene who is exiting the stage, while Trump continues to dominate it, as he did through impeachments and indictments and other controversies that no other politician would have survived.
Still, Draper hedges his bets. Maybe she will be a harbinger.
But because it represents an evolution for Greene, she may yet again prove to be a harbinger of a sea change in the movement she once helped lead.
By far the most fascinating part of the profile to me is how Draper traces MTG’s cognitive dissonance. In 2022 — and still today — MTG is certain there’s no way Joe Biden could have won the election in 2020.
One autumn evening in 2022, I ventured to ask just how she thought the 2020 election was stolen. Did she really think that a grand conspiracy, perhaps masterminded by the Obamas and the C.I.A., had secretly rigged the results?
“Robert,” she replied with a searching look, “do you really think Joe Biden got 81 million votes without even campaigning?”
“Yes,” I said. “They counted all the votes. That was the final tally. Why wouldn’t I believe it?” The look she then gave me, which I will never forget, was one of bottomless pity.
But the contrast between the earnest stories of the survivors followed by hearing Trump complain that naming those who abused Epstein’s girls would hurt his friends broke through a belief created by the bubble of Fox News.
The reason for her lack of concern, as Greene explained it to me, might seem improbable to anyone who is unfamiliar with how the mainstream press and the right-wing media cover the same story differently — or not at all. “The story to me,” she said, “was that I’d seen pictures of Epstein with all these people. And Trump is just one of several. And then, for me, I’d seen that Bill Clinton is on the flight logs for his plane like 20-something times. So, for people like me, it wasn’t suspicious. And then we’d heard the general stories of how Epstein used to be a member of Mar-a-Lago, but Trump kicked him out. Why would I think he’s done anything wrong, right?”
For Greene, the decades that Epstein spent eluding justice for exploiting and sexually assaulting countless girls and young women while amassing a fortune, and the seeming efforts by the government to cover up the injustice, “represents everything wrong with Washington,” she told me. This September, Greene spoke with several of Epstein’s victims for the first time in a closed-door House Oversight Committee meeting. She knew that the women had paid their own way to come to Washington. She saw some of them trembling and crying as they spoke. Their accounts struck her as entirely believable. Greene herself had never been sexually abused, but she knew women who had. In her own small way, Greene later told me, she could understand what it was like for a woman to stand up to a powerful man.
One of the most important parts of MTG’s split from Trump has been an evolving relationship with the media, especially Fox News, and therefore, the truth, but with Draper always there persisting. That is, MTG had to work through the cognitive dissonance of learning that Trump really did have ties to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking, that he really was trying to cover it up, before she got to the point of retconning it all inside a faith narrative. Her own banishment from Fox News may have helped work through the cognitive dissonance.
I talk a lot about one of the ways you fight fascism is to peel off members of Congress, four in the Senate or eight in the House. I’ve laid out repeatedly how central the Epstein scandal was to that process.
Whether you like the Draper profile or not, whether or not MTG’s split from Trump will be a harbinger of more (like Stefanik’s) to come, what this profile does do is show what it took for one diehard MAGAt to go through it: political betrayal, real policy differences, retaliation, and then cognitive dissonance regarding Epstein, the Kirk epiphany, until finally responding to his terrorism in a dramatically different way than almost every other Republican, whether MAGAt or not.
There’s a process.
According to the interview she regrets being part of toxic culture and wants to be more like Christ. She specifically says that she was offended when Trump said he hated his enemies and didn’t want the best for them. I want to think she’s being genuine but time will tell.
Has she really learnt a lesson or is this a marketing move?
Am I being too cynical?
Why not both? Sure, MTG is rebranding herself as a very conservative never Trumper. There’s a lot of room in that niche.
But you have to ask why she would do that. Betrayal by Trump is a good starting point. Finally realizing that Trump is a sexual predator is another. Not in the harsh, 1950s rough sex and cast them aside sort of way. In the Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein criming sort of way. For those in love with Trump, you have to give up a lot of preconceptions to get there.
As with Gavin Newsom, you don’t have to want her political future to be bright to cheer her effective opposition to Trump.
One of the perks of being a MAGA Christian is you get to pick and choose when you want to “be like Christ” and when you want to be an asshole. Because freedom.
typo?
“when MTG opposed his cryptocurrency graft”
Should that by “grift”?
Graft also means using your public office for illicit gain, so it fits, imho.
I seem to recall some insider trading by MTG. She has no regrets about that I guess.
MTG borrowed $183k PPP loan in 2020. She had some choices.
a) repay it, because Repubs are all about fiscal responsibility, because Repubs hate government handouts at taxpayer expense, and because that’s what Christ would do.
b) not repay it, because the government said she didn’t have to.
Graft works … using your position to push thru policies and practices that benefit yourself or others
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My favourite bit in Draper’s piece:
“Still, Greene told me, she had no illusions about how her media mini-tour would be received in the White House. “All of a sudden, I’m in places” — Greene made her voice sound stern to mimic disapproving Republican leaders — “‘that you’re not supposed to be, little M.T.G. You get back in your little [expletive] box in the kitchen and shut up and cook us dinner and stay there.’”
People can achieve a modicum of non-polarization in all sorts of different ways. MTG’s tiny streak of feminism here is one way. I still despise her politics and think she oughtn’t to be let off her toxicity so easily. She doesn’t sound really repentant to me. But I welcome this little bit of enlightenment, and hope it takes her further towards a centre.
I liked “meteoric crash and burn”. Finally, a reporter used a meteor as a metaphor for something meteors do.
Her Road to Damascus moment was paved on her false belief in Fox News and her naivete in how DC worked. She was not dumb, as she watched each minority or woman get cast aside. She chose the only path to salvage her self worth, as she is someone who believed in her value as an equal decision maker and not as a “work wife” like Maxwell, Barrett, Bondi, Noem, Wiles, Melania, et. al.
She considered herself the equal of Kamala Harris, but she found out her own Party did not believe that to be true.
Just like Saul, she is trying to morph into another persona as White WItch may be her moniker if my dreams come true.
I would vote for a Harris/Taylor ticket in 2028, but I have the audacity of hope. Imagine these two women running the US for 16 years.
Inspired by reading this post and a CSD article about an acquaintance, Representative Nina Webber R-Cody Wyoming
“And because of her “long blonde hair” and the rarity of seeing white people, he said that “it would be very intriguing and (it’s feasible) how they may consider her to be a witch.””
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/12/30/judge-dismisses-claim-against-lawmaker-that-she-cheated-ex-out-of-african-safari/
This really stood out to me:
According to Greene, Trump replied, “My friends will get hurt.”
The idea that Trump is concerned about his “friends” is ridiculous. As noted elsewhere in the piece, loyalty with him is a one-way street, which has been obvious to most of us for a very long time. It seems to me that what really concerns him is that rich and powerful men might be held to account for what they did to vulnerable and powerless young women and girls, and that doesn’t sit well with him. Perhaps even Trump himself might be held to account, for what he knew and declined to stop if not for what he did. But the idea that Trump gives a rip about his “friends” is just laughable.
Could it be the type of friend who said, Keep my name out of it or else?
Don’t right wing conspiracy theorists believe that there is an international pedophile ring of elites and that the elites protect their fellow elites? Of course they thought that the Democrats were the perps and that Trump would clean it all up.
Trump told MTG was that he thought that his priority was to protect his friends. That is a rather damning statement. And, based on the Trump Administration’s actions. It looks like he is protecting elites.
Good catch. I took it at face value, but of course, you are right. DJT does not give a rat’s ass if Dersh or any of his scumbag friends are hurt. “My friends” is his subconscious redirection of “me”.
His friends are his sponsors, funders to whom he’s in debt, his narcissistic supply which is willing to buy a Mar-a-Lago membership to gain access to him.
They’re the kind of people he relies on for guidance because he’s not competent to govern — think of the triumvirate of golf buddies who were the shadow managers of the VA during Trump 1.0. Men like them with similar socially unacceptable peccadilloes, who make him feel at ease about his own revolting tastes.
He really does care but it’s not the kind of authentic care we might feel for friends and loved ones because he’s incapable of *that* kind of care.
ITA. He has no friends. Every human relationship with him is 100% transactional. His “friends” are those he’s indebted to.
Thanks for paraphrasing what I said. -__-
For the same reason he is aghast at Brazil’s treatment of Bolsonaro – he is an ex-President accused and tried for corruption – Trump doesn’t want his ‘friends’ hurt by the Epstein release. He is always projecting. It always circles back to him.
As for MTG – While I am not a big fan of Liz Cheney, I can respect her. I am not sure of Miss Greene’s motives.
Just remembering how she attacked David Hogg, then a teenage victim of a school shooting, by screaming at him like a banshee on the streets of DC. It will take more reflection on how to reconcile ‘conservative’ with ‘human’ before she gets any benefit of doubt.
Happy New Year and thank you all for raising my awareness and challenging my (limited) intellect with stories and opinions and conversation that doesn’t suffer fools gladly. I’ll go back to my rock now.
I’d like to second every word of that comment. Onward and upward in the new year!
Rayne you might find it interesting, as to his friends, I did a search asking who was Trump golfing with when the shooter on the road event happened. All the normal returns featured “Ryan Roth” as the shooter, but the AI bot returned, “Donald Trump was golfing with his friend and donor Steve Witkoff when the potential shooter was spotted aiming a rifle at a member of Trump’s security detail.” This was duckduckgo search, with it’s “search assistant” as bot.
There is something there to not deny – maybe not worth all the hype and spending with all the high tech giant corporations saying, “My AI is bigger than yours, mine’s the biggest in the locker room.” Or the functional equivalent. We cannot prematurely write AI off as all hype, no substance, as it would be Ludditeism to do that. It would be like writing MTG off as all hype, no substance. Too easy and too subjective to our prejudices.
Bottom line, It was Witkoff, and the regular search returns missed the point of the search. I remembered it was a donor put into the Administration, but was unsure of which one of several it was.
First, interesting detail about Trump’s “friend” — a detail that deserves to be mentioned in comments below Marcy’s latest post, Adam Entous’ Coy Kirill Dmitriev Flirtations.
Second, I’m not going to support the use of AI. Most search engine users don’t know how to write effective queries and can rarely be bothered to learn how; their queries using AI may not be much better for the same reasons.
If I can write an effective query using search engines without AI, why the fuck would I burn a metric crap ton more carbon for the same results?
Why would I even use a search engine without checking Wikipedia’s entry — Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Florida — first? The answer is literally laid out for you; AI steals that answer from copyrighted news material and from donor-supported, volunteer-curated Wikipedia.
The correct response to “My pedophile friends will get hurt!” is “What is your point?”.
I hate when people use religion to justify their sh-t. I’m not a church goer but I don’t want to see church going disappear. These people are the poster sh-tbags for being repulsed by religious practice.
I hear ya.
Fortunately, the ICE protests in Chicago/Broadview and elsewhere have given us Poster-Servants really walking the walk–putting their physical safety on the line for Steven Miller and Kristi Noem’s victims.
I have my own baggage around churchgoing and toxic evangelicalism. And I have to deeply respect that walking of the walk.
Better late than never for Greene to become conscious to the aggression, suppression, and misogyny of women by men in the Republican party. Took her years to wake up to Trump’s despicable behavior, finding loyalty is a one way street with him.
What goes around comes around. Greene’s arrogant words, attacking actions and toxic politics are like a boomerang returning to teach accountability. Eating humble pie being sorry for taking part in poisonous politics is a start to self-awareness and self-education.
A personal apology to President Biden for her immature outburst at the State of the Union and to David Hogg, a Parkland school shooting survivor for her hateful harassment while he was walking in Washington, DC would add to her new Christian journey.
“People seldom appreciate the pain they’ve caused until that pain is visited upon them. That is not vengeance. It is education.” Wayne Gerard Trotman
I don’t recall she ever had threats from the left, in terms of her “education” on vengeance. Not sure that has dawned on her, yet. Her rise in power was apparently not bereft of a certain self awareness as a woman. She has always promoted a version of “personal strength”and I suppose “butch body” stung her as well as the frivolity following. But it was not a threat, and she was not undeserving of that retribution by Jasmine Crockett. How deep is her love of Jesus? Remains to be seen.
I still think she is an awful person, and this is a calculated move to shape MAGA against billionaires and more toward the economic needs of MAGA working class people (ACA subsidies, e.g). She may rightly sense a coming backlash to the tech oligarchs, and this puts her on the right side of it. But she’s still a bigot, racist and conspiracist. In the end any move by a MAGA representative away from Trump is a positive one for the country.
Clean
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
From files laundered clean,
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
From the days of Jeff Epstein.
From Jeffrey Epstein, oh dear,
From Jeffrey Epstein,
Who’ll link it up the spineless fret,
From the days of Jeff Epstein.
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
From files laundered clean,
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
From the days of Jeff Epstein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IALSCIyUPXI
Auld Lang Syne (Instrumental Violin and Bagpipes) + Free Sheet Music
Bravo!
Timely even!!
It looks to me like Green, or a highly influential advisor of hers, finally realized that Trump&Co are out to screw everybody: Congress, SCOTUS, the Judiciary, the Military– every person and institution in the country.
She wised up to the terrible damage Trump (TechBroligarchs, Proj 2025) are deliberately, knowingly doing to the USA (especially wrecking ACA). Maybe she/they realized that by going along with Trump, congress were going to lose all their power, be nullified.
Too bad SCOTUS don’t seem to grasp that eagerly handing Trump all these unconstitutional powers disempowers themselves.
I think that’s right. And to be honest, Draper doesn’t describe a lot of that. I don’t think he gives MTG near enough credit for savvy.
You had me until SCOTUS. Do you really think the Roberts Court will let a Democratic president exercise the same unconstitutional powers they gave Trump because Fox News radicalized them? Based on what SCOTUS evidence?
Yes, actually. The Supreme Court is by far the weakest of the three branches. Andrew Jackson basically told them to go fuck themselves, and so did Lincoln. Both got away with it scot free. FDR was planning to do similar until the “switch in time that saved nine.”
If a Democratic administration’s DOJ were to issue guidance binding on all federal employees that the court’s opinions are from now on construed to be simply, opinions, advisory but not binding, what realistically could SCOTUS do? Call for a general strike until the government listens to them again? No one would care; there comes a point when an institution without legitimacy in the eyes of the public loses even that reputational inertia which formerly sustained it even through unpopularity.
John Roberts is the modern-day Roger Taney. (N.B. I save the comparison to Roland Freisler for Samuel Alito.)
Steve Bannon said of her that she has her finger on the pulse of their base. She’s confident they will be severely punished in the midterms so trying to be elected is pointless, as written in the article. She’s hoping she is stepping out just at the right moment, just before everybody else so that she is the trendsetter. Time will tell if she manages to stay in the limelight for 12 months more, so that she’s seen as the future of the republicans after they get their asses handed to them in November.
If you listen to her declarations in 2021 when she was asked about her harassing David Hogg, she also pretended that she cared in some way (without any remorse whatsoever). Her charitable Christian vibe comes and goes when convenient.
Green’s “Christian vibe” is the vibe of the megachurch prosperity gospel Joel Osstein variety. There is lip service paid to charity and compassion, but all of that charity and compassion is directed at themselves and others of the tribe. Really, go listen to her resignation video. The bulk of its content is self-validaion and self-congratulation. She is Christ-like in portraying herself as The Victim, naive and trusting, caring only for the welfare of her constiuents. Her net worth begs to differ, though that is a very common byproduct of serving in Congress.
Her break with Trump is completely rooted in self-interest. That makes it no less valid or important as a tool for breaking Trump’s protection by the Republican party. But MGT remains a conspiracy-driven moral scold who considers the Democrat party an evil cabal bent on Destroying America. None of that has changed in the slightest, and for every Jennifer Rubin there are a thousand never-Trumpers ready to go back to work for the party that wants to rule America by any means necessary. That includes MGT.
LOL “Christ-like”
If you watched the latest Knives Out series entry Wake Up Dead Man on Netflix, there’s a character played by Glenn Close who made me think of MTG. Martha Delacroix (which means Lady of the Cross) plays this ham-handed evangelical Christian attached to her pastor and church like a tick on a dog. So dramatically performative in her faith…I don’t want to spoil the movie but let’s just say the Lady gets down off her cross.
A parallel, with or without a story behind it, Trump changed his mind on crypto, initially saying it was questionable. Now MTG changes her mind on Trump.
Each can be said to see advantage in a change in the moment.
Private sector a lot is being wagered on AI being profitable, and in parallel, The Genesis Mission — https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/11/launching-the-genesis-mission/ — the smell of money in the morning.
MTG deserves a bit more slack being cut for her, as she’s not nakedly chasing any and all money on the table, and we must in fairness be generous in guessing a sound motive and not a trash thing. But where she goes in 2026 or beyond will tell a story to where, for now, her story is better than chasing any buck that appears, which seems to be what motivates Trump – a part of his id in overdrive, as already noted. Likely put into that id by Fred Trump, who had it too.
MTG is the far from naive. Vicious, yes. Cagey, yes.
Slogan for 2026/2028: It‘s the metanoia, stupid.
Wikipedia:
MTG slaps some christianization on her metanoia, but it‘s very classical, imo. I think however she serves as a good role model for other cult members in their own personal journeys. I thought Draper‘s piece was not bad at all.
Thank you to Marcy, Rayne, Ed, and Peterr and all the commenters for all the good work during the year. Humbling and inspiring to read every day. Good new year to all.
Very thought-provoking article by the Times and excellent step-by-step analysis by Marcy. I also enjoy the comments, because it is such a widely read, pithy intelligent group that comments here. The thoughts about Trump constantly projecting and turning everything into a narrative about himself, were right on the money. DJT and MGT are both very basal creatures – they act out of impulses from their id or very basal emotional response triggers – fear, hatred, envy. They don’t cogitate at the superego level much at all or only with great difficulty. Because they are the way they are, I think they understand each other well and recognize each other’s common traits. Happy New Year to the whole EW crowd and Marcy is right, as usual – there is a process to bring down this monster.
Wishing everyone here ( most especially Marcy, Rayne, Ed et al ) good health, happiness, and more laughter in the coming year; 2026 is our year, I can feel it.
From your keyboard to the cosmic powers that be…wishing you and yours a year ahead that fulfills your dreams.
Do a search, MTG on tour with Matt Gaetz. And, she waited until her House pension was set before redefinition of her core.
Matt Gaetz has dropped off the edge of the earth, and there’s a NYT paywall, so I ask here, was there any mention of the kindred soul marketing tour and its implications in the redef cheering coverage? Or is short attention span being counted upon?
And Erika Kirk, the show must go on seems a bigger theme than I forgive. Or both can be argued to fit together. But the show going on seems the reality of Erika Kirk’s positioning..
JD is still on board and if/when he redefines himself if he ever needs to, it will ring to me of the same sincerity as MTG, where my wondering is where she’s headed next.
Last, Liz Cheney did not help Kamala. Kudo attention to the turncoat seems questionable.
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Matt Gaetz immediately got an “anchor” job at a “news” program on OAN immediately after his AG nomination was pulled and he’s still there. I guess working for OAN may well qualify as “dropping off the edge of the earth”…