Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) aired her grievances about President Donald J. Trump to Tucker Carlson, including a claim that a pro-MAGA GOP lawmaker secretly “hates” the president and mocks him behind his back.
Greene appeared on the latest episode of “The Tucker Carlson Show” podcast to discuss the Iran war and the current state of the Republican Party, her latest stop on a months-long media tour since she quit Congress over an ugly feud with Trump, whom she once devoutly supported.
“They’re bought and paid for. They do not represent the American people or the American people’s interest, and it’s because they’re funded that way,” she told the host concerning the GOP, which she accused of being motivated more by donor money than doing anything to improve the lives of ordinary people.
Why do neocons consistently act against the interests of the United States? It’s more than neglect. It’s hate. Marjorie Taylor Greene saw it firsthand. pic.twitter.com/HGJlRfJ3bo
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 30, 2026
The former lawmaker singled out one House member in particular, Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), a rising star who is beloved by the media and outwardly loyal to the president.
“There’s a whole other side, there are Republican members of Congress that never had good intentions, ever, ever,” Greene told Carlson, according to a transcript. “And they came into the House of Representatives already completely supported and propped up and funded by this nasty entanglement I’m talking about in Washington. And I watched it with my own eyes when I watched Mike Lawler get elected.”
“I remember specifically when Mike Lawler came in, and he was welcomed in by everybody. I mean, he was propped up as the guy we have to fight for,” she said. “One of the most critical races as an incoming Republican candidate, because it was a very close district, and it was so– we were told it was so important to win this district.”
“Well, I learned a lot about him very quickly. He, as a Catholic, Mike Lawler is a Catholic, was heavily supported and funded by the Jewish community there and was heavily being supported by all the Christian Zionists,” MTG continued. “And he instantly had more support from pretty much every fundraising mechanism that there is in Washington, D.C. that supports Republicans. He had more help than I could have ever dreamed of having, ever in my entire political career.”
“And I was like, ‘Wow, what is going on with this guy?’ And it turns out he did win his race. It was a narrow victory, but he did win it. And of course, he instantly came into the House of Representatives, completely bought and paid for by all of the establishment donor class that had supported him,” she said.
“He hated Donald Trump, made fun of him constantly, mimicked him, making fun of his voice. He used to attack me, make fun of me, come and find me on the House floor, and make fun of me for supporting Donald Trump, and this was in the four years before Trump got elected as president again in 2024,” Greene claimed.
“I saw this unbelievable change in him, and of course it happened after Trump won his primary in 2024,” she added. “All of a sudden, Mike Lawler – I started joking – I started calling him MAGA Mike Lawler because he was all of a sudden becoming Trump’s biggest supporter.”
If true, then the New York congressman certainly won’t be the only one who pretends to support Trump when it’s politically convenient for them and will turn on him the second that things go south, especially if the GOP loses the midterms because of the Iran war.
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