Marjorie Taylor Greene, known as MTG, is a U.S. Representative for Georgia's 14th congressional district since 2021. A Republican, she was elected in 2020 and re-elected in 2022 and 2024. She is known for her far-right political views, business background, and promotion of conspiracy theories.
On May 27, 1974, Marjorie Taylor Greene, also known as MTG, was born.
In September 1990, an incident at Marjorie Taylor Greene's high school involved an armed student holding 53 students hostage for over five hours.
In 1992, Marjorie Taylor Greene graduated from South Forsyth High School in Cumming, Georgia.
Greene married Perry Greene in 1995 while in college.
In 1996, Marjorie Taylor Greene graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Business Administration.
In 1999, Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested John F. Kennedy Jr.'s death in a plane crash was a "Clinton murder".
In 2002, Marjorie Taylor Greene and her then-husband, Perry Mayer, acquired Taylor Commercial, a general-contracting company, from her father.
From 2007 to 2011, Marjorie Taylor Greene was listed as the chief financial officer of Taylor Commercial.
In 2011, Greene was rebaptized into North Point Community Church, an evangelical megachurch network.
In 2011, Marjorie Taylor Greene stepped down as the CFO of Taylor Commercial and began CrossFit training.
By 2012, Marjorie Taylor Greene worked as a part-time coach at an Alpharetta CrossFit gym.
In August 2013, Marjorie Taylor Greene opened CrossFit Passion in Alpharetta with Travis Mayer.
In a 2015 interview, Marjorie Taylor Greene said she and Mayer knew little about how to run a business when they started.
In 2016, Marjorie Taylor Greene said that she became politically engaged during the Republican Party presidential primaries.
In August 2017, Marjorie Taylor Greene compared Black Lives Matter activists to white nationalist participants at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a rally she had previously called an "inside job".
In 2017 Marjorie Taylor Greene speculated that the Pizzagate conspiracy theory is real.
In 2017, Marjorie Taylor Greene began writing for the now defunct American Truth Seekers, a conspiracy news website, which published 59 articles by Greene. In 2017, Greene visited Washington, D.C. to protest against a Republican gun control compromise.
In 2017, Marjorie Taylor Greene promoted the conspiracy theory that the government orchestrated the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
In 2017, the Cook Political Report ranked Georgia's 14th congressional district the 10th-most Republican in the country.
In early 2017, Marjorie Taylor Greene left CrossFit Passion.
In January 2018, Marjorie Taylor Greene started writing for Law Enforcement Today, a pro-police fake news website, which featured 27 articles Greene authored.
In January 2018, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a top official of the Family America Project, a conservative group. She was a moderator of the organization's Facebook group.
In April 2018, Marjorie Taylor Greene's Facebook account responded to a post asking about hanging Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama with the statement: "Stage is being set. Players are being put in place. We must be patient. This must be done perfectly or liberal judges would let them off."
In 2018, Marjorie Taylor Greene agreed with the Frazzledrip conspiracy theory in a Facebook post, which alleges Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin murdered a child in a satanic ritual.
In 2018, Marjorie Taylor Greene promoted a false anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that the 2018 Camp Fire may have been caused by "what looked like lasers or beams of blue light" from "space solar generators" in a scheme involving California Governor Jerry Brown, companies PG&E, Rothschild & Co, and Solaren.
In 2018, Marjorie Taylor Greene revived the Clinton kill list conspiracy theory, claiming that Hillary Clinton murdered her political enemies.
In 2018, Marjorie Taylor Greene said that the election of Omar and Tlaib in the 2018 midterm elections was part of "an Islamic invasion of our government".
In January 2019, Marjorie Taylor Greene accused Nancy Pelosi of treason in a Facebook video and promoted a petition to impeach her, based on her opposition to Trump's border wall.
In February 2019, Marjorie Taylor Greene visited Nancy Pelosi's office and suggested that Pelosi and Representative Maxine Waters had committed treason.
In February 2019, Marjorie Taylor Greene visited the U.S. Capitol and congressional offices, confronting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and making false claims about Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
On June 4, 2019, Marjorie Taylor Greene began her campaign in Georgia's 6th congressional district, stating her commitment to balance the federal budget and restrain Congress from overspending. She also criticized her expected primary opponent, former U.S. representative Karen Handel.
On December 13, 2019, Marjorie Taylor Greene announced that she was shifting her campaign to Georgia's 14th district after incumbent Tom Graves announced he would not run for reelection there.
As of 2019, Greene was Taylor Commercial's vice president.
In 2019, Marjorie Taylor Greene explained her position on gun rights and school shootings, alluding to being affected by the September 1990 incident at her high school.
In 2019, Marjorie Taylor Greene's Facebook account expressed support for the execution of leading Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, as well as FBI agents.
On February 29, 2020, Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke at a gun rights rally in Villanow hosted by Silent No Longer. She held up a banner for American Patriots USA and posed for photos with Chester Doles, a Ku Klux Klansman.
On March 2, 2020, the Georgia Republican Party contributed $5,220 to Marjorie Taylor Greene's campaign treasury.
On September 3, 2020, Marjorie Taylor Greene shared a meme to her Facebook page depicting herself holding an AR-15 style rifle next to a collage of pictures of Ocasio-Cortez, Omar and Tlaib, prompting accusations of inciting violence.
At a September 2020 gun rights rally in Ringgold, Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene stated she would always protect gun owners' rights and would not vote for laws making it harder for people to possess guns, asserting that the government cannot dictate how many guns she owns or bullets she is allowed to fire.
On September 19, 2020, Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared at a gun rights rally in Ringgold, Georgia, where the Georgia III% Martyrs provided security. During the rally, Greene had Chester Doles ejected.
On October 27, 2020, Marjorie Taylor Greene told viewers: "the only way you get your freedoms back is it's earned with the price of blood."
During her 2020 campaign, Greene became one of the most recognizable names in the GOP.
In 2020, Marjorie Taylor Greene aided and supported Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the U.S. presidential election and promoted false claims of a stolen election. She also called for the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election in Georgia to be decertified.
In 2020, Marjorie Taylor Greene was elected to Congress following the retirement of Republican incumbent Tom Graves.
In 2020, after the first round of voting in the Republican primary election, Politico rereleased videos of Marjorie Taylor Greene expressing racist, antisemitic, and Islamophobic views, which were widely condemned.
On her first day in office, Marjorie Taylor Greene wore a face mask onto the House floor that read "Trump Won", despite Trump having lost the 2020 U.S. presidential election to Joe Biden. During the counting of electoral votes, Greene raised an objection to counting Michigan's electoral votes.
On January 4, 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene called for the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election in Georgia to be decertified.
After facing increased attention in January 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene deleted some of her social media postings and publications.
By the time Marjorie Taylor Greene was sworn in in January 2021, she reported having moved to Rome, which is located in the 14th congressional district.
In January 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would "love to trade [Katie Hopkins] for some of our white people here that have no appreciation for our country" in an interview with Katie Hopkins.
In January 2021, a 2019 video resurfaced showing Marjorie Taylor Greene confronting Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg near the U.S. Capitol. Greene questioned his gun control activism, called him a "coward", and falsely claimed his efforts were funded by George Soros. The video sparked backlash, with Parkland activists calling for her resignation.
In January 2021, it was found that Marjorie Taylor Greene agreed with the Frazzledrip conspiracy theory in a 2018 Facebook post, which alleges Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin murdered a child in a satanic ritual.
On January 17, 2021, Greene's personal Twitter account was locked for 12 hours for violating the civic integrity policy due to false claims about voting fraud.
On January 30, 2021, Saturday Night Live featured a cold open where Cecily Strong played a caricature of Greene, espousing conspiracy theories and discussing how she "told [her] supporters that they should physically murder Nancy Pelosi".
On February 2, 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene co-sponsored the Old Glory Only Bill, which sought to ban U.S. embassies from flying pride flags.
On February 4, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from all committee roles due to her endorsements of political violence.
In February 2021, a YouGov poll showed that 45% of surveyed adult U.S. citizens viewed Greene unfavorably, 33% did not know her, and 21% viewed her favorably.
On February 24, 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to block the Equality Act, claiming it would "destroy God's creation". She proposed an alternative bill and displayed a transphobic poster outside her office in response to Representative Marie Newman displaying a transgender pride flag.
In March 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of 14 House Republicans who voted against a measure condemning the Myanmar coup d'état; the reasons for her vote were unclear.
On March 19, 2021, Greene was barred from blocking anyone on her public Twitter account and forced to pay $10,000 to MeidasTouch, resulting from an out-of-court settlement after they sued her for violating their First Amendment rights.
In April 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene supported a bill by Representative Mary Miller that would bar schools from allowing transgender students to use facilities, such as bathrooms and locker rooms, that correspond to their gender identity.
On April 16, 2021, reports surfaced regarding Marjorie Taylor Greene's interest in launching an America First Caucus, and she was confirmed to be involved. Greene later disavowed the caucus and stated she was not involved, calling it a "staff level draft proposal from an outside group that [she] hadn't read".
In May 2021, Greene was reported by WSB-TV in Atlanta to have potentially broken Georgia law by claiming homestead exemptions on two properties.
In mid-May 2021, a Morning Consult poll indicated that most GOP voters surveyed had either never heard of or had no opinion on Greene. Among those who had an opinion, Greene was seen overall more favorably than unfavorably.
On May 21, 2021, Common Cause filed an FEC complaint against Greene for allegedly violating campaign finance provisions. She was accused of unlawful solicitation of unlimited contributions in an advertisement on behalf of a super PAC targeting Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.
On June 4, 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene sent a letter to President Biden calling for an investigation into Dr. Fauci's statements regarding the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. In the letter, she described COVID-19 as a "manufactured plague" caused by a "Chinese-made virus."
On June 15, 2021, after Greene's visit to the Holocaust Museum, Jimmy Kimmel, Trevor Noah, and Joy Behar criticized Greene's understanding of the Holocaust and her remarks, with Kimmel calling her "human excrement" and Behar joking about her ignorance.
In June 2021, Greene voted against rewarding the Capitol Police with the Congressional Gold Medal for defending the Capitol Building during the 2021 United States Capitol attack.
In June 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a bill to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). The bill also sought to provide monetary grants to the families of Border Patrol agents killed as a result of Operation Fast and Furious.
In June 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene made controversial statements regarding transgender women, referring to them as "men playing dress up" and said she refused to recognize them as women. Later that month, she described schools teaching about LGBT people as "mental/emotional child abuse".
In June 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene was among 49 House Republicans to vote for the repeal of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.
In June 2021, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert played a satirical calendar song mocking Greene after she requested Biden reply to a letter she sent "by June 31", a date which does not exist.
During an interview with Steve Bannon on July 7, 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene rejected a conspiracy theory suggesting that Donald Trump would be reinstated as president in August 2021.
In July 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene dismissed COVID-19 variants, including the Delta variant, by stating "no one cares." She also spread misinformation, asserting the virus "is not dangerous for non-obese people and those under 65". When confronted about the deaths of non-obese and young individuals, Greene laughed and stated that people are responsible for their own safety.
In July 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene stated she would expel Chinese nationals loyal to the Chinese Communist Party and impose strict tariffs on China. She also voted against the ALLIES Act, which aimed to increase special immigrant visas for Afghan allies of the U.S. military by 8,000.
As of July 2021, opinions on Greene among her constituents in the 14th district were split.
In August 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene rejected a conspiracy theory suggesting that Donald Trump would be reinstated as president in August 2021.
In August 2021, at a fundraiser, Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that President Biden would send police to people's doors to inquire about vaccination status and invoked Second Amendment rights. She also called COVID-19 Fauci's "experiment." Her office dismissed these claims as conspiracy theories.
In September 2021, the Federal Election Commission asked Greene's 2022 re-election campaign treasurer to provide information about $3.5 million of unitemized campaign contributions.
On October 22, 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene purchased shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp., a company merging with Trump Media & Technology Group to fund Trump's Truth Social app.
In November 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene called Republicans who supported the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act "traitors" and criticized the bill as Biden's "communist takeover of America". She also publicized the office phone numbers of 13 House Republicans who voted for the bill, leading to death threats.
Greene's Twitter account was temporarily suspended five times in 2021 for violating Twitter's policies.
In 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene began serving as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 14th congressional district.
In 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene said that "maybe perhaps we live on a ball that rotates around the sun, that flies through the universe, and maybe our climate just changes,", rejecting scientific consensus.
In 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene unsuccessfully challenged votes for Joe Biden during the United States Electoral College vote count. Days after Biden's inauguration, Greene filed articles of impeachment alleging abuse of power.
In 2021, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation determined that Marjorie Taylor Greene had no significant presence at Taylor Commercial.
In April 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene faced a legal challenge to her eligibility based on her alleged involvement in organizing and promoting the 2021 United States Capitol attack. In May, Greene defeated Jennifer Strahan in the Republican primary.
In early 2022, Greene faced challenges when several Georgia electors filed papers to remove her from the 2022 Republican primary ballot, alleging her involvement in assisting the 2021 United States Capitol attack.
In his 2021 memoir, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie denounced Greene for her "baseless, factless, absurd, and dangerous" rhetoric, including her support of QAnon.
In late 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene first advocated a "national divorce" between red states and blue states. She further suggested that red states disenfranchise people who move there from blue states for a period of five years.
On February 9, 2022, Greene, using a malapropism, referred to the police guarding the Capitol building as "gazpacho police", mistaking the cold Spanish soup for the Gestapo, leading to widespread jokes.
In February 2022, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell criticized Marjorie Taylor Greene for attending the America First Political Action Conference, stating that there was no place in the party for "white supremacists or anti-Semitism".
On April 1, 2022, Greene filed a federal lawsuit denying allegations of involvement in the 2021 United States Capitol attack and sought to block a law allowing her removal from the ballot.
In April 2022, Jimmy Kimmel joked about Will Smith slapping Greene in response to her accusing Republicans who supported Ketanji Brown Jackson of being "pro-pedophile". Greene accused Kimmel of threatening violence and contacted Capitol Police. Threats against Greene invoking Kimmel were reported.
In April 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized Ketanji Brown Jackson for not answering the question "what is a woman?", further stating her personal views on the creation of women and gender roles.
In May 2022, Greene called a Petri dish a "peach tree dish" during a livestream.
In May 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that straight people would become extinct due to LGBT-inclusive educators, whom she termed "trans terrorists". She also falsely stated that the perpetrator of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Texas in 2022 was transgender.
In May 2022, using a malapropism, Marjorie Taylor Greene promoted the conspiracy theory that the U.S. government is planning to force Americans to eat fake meat grown in a "peach tree dish" by Bill Gates.
On June 1, 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene stated that "an entire" pride month celebrating LGBT people "needs to end".
In June 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene argued that Canada's proposed gun control laws would leave Canada "weak and vulnerable to being invaded and easily taken over by another stronger country", such as "Russia, who is very angry at America right now."
In July 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested that the Highland Park parade shooting was "designed to make Republicans go along with more gun control" because it occurred "in a rich, white neighborhood" during "MAGA month". She conceded that her comments might sound "like a conspiracy theory".
In July 2022, Twitter labeled two tweets by Greene, where she misgendered and deadnamed Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, as violating rules on hateful conduct but did not delete them, citing public interest.
In August 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene stated, "People die in the cold. This Earth warming, and carbon, is actually healthy for us. It helps us to feed people, it keeps people alive. ... We need to hold Democrats accountable and defund all of their climate garbage"—contrary to the scientific consensus.
In August 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested that Democrats designed the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri to boost Biden in the midterms because the Russian invasion of Ukraine had not achieved this, shortly before doubting he had been killed.
On August 19, 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced the "Protect Children's Innocence Act", which aims to criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth, prohibit federal funding for such care, and restrict instruction on it in higher education. The bill was co-sponsored by fourteen Republicans.
In September 2022, Perry Greene announced that he was filing for divorce from Greene.
In November 2022, Greene's personal Twitter account was reinstated after Elon Musk acquired Twitter.
In November 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene promoted the anti-vaccine film Died Suddenly, which promotes misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and Great Reset conspiracy theories.
In November 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene responded to California state senator Scott Wiener's criticism of the term "groomer", stating that the Protect Children's Innocence Act would stop "communist groomers" such as Wiener.
In November 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene was reelected, defeating Democratic nominee Marcus Flowers with 65.9 percent of the vote.
On December 22, 2022, Greene's divorce from Perry Greene was finalized.
In 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene was re-elected to Congress.
In 2022, the White House criticized Greene for attacking its student loan forgiveness program, calling her hypocritical for accepting forgiveness of a $183,504 loan from the Paycheck Protection Program.
In September 2021, the Federal Election Commission asked Greene's 2022 re-election campaign treasurer, to provide information about $3.5 million of unitemized campaign contributions from undisclosed donors received in the first half of 2021.
In January 2023, Marjorie Taylor Greene was appointed to new committee roles in the House of Representatives.
In February 2023, Marjorie Taylor Greene repeated her suggestion for a "national divorce" between red states and blue states, which was met with condemnation from Democrats and some Republicans.
On April 15, 2023, Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted that climate change was a "scam" and that "fossil fuels are natural and amazing", saying that "there are some very powerful people that are getting rich beyond their wildest dreams convincing many that carbon is the enemy".
In May 2023, Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed lax security at the Mexico-United States border for contributing to the opioid epidemic, stating that "Three hundred Americans are dying every single day." She suggested that Mayorkas and President Biden should be impeached.
In June 2023, Marjorie Taylor Greene was expelled from the conservative House Freedom Caucus after insulting fellow caucus member Congresswoman Lauren Boebert.
In October 2023, Marjorie Taylor Greene sponsored a resolution to censure Democratic U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib for alleged "antisemitic activity." She also expressed skepticism about Iran's nuclear weapons development and criticized American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites during the Iran-Israel War.
In November 2023, Greene released a memoir titled MTG, published by Winning Team Publishing, detailing her life and political career.
In 2023, Greene began dating Brian Glenn, the director of programming for the Right Side Broadcasting Network.
On May 8, 2024, Marjorie Taylor Greene unsuccessfully attempted to oust Mike Johnson from his role as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
In June 2024, Marjorie Taylor Greene questioned Dr. Fauci at a congressional hearing. She refused to address him as Doctor, questioned his medical license, and accused him of covering up COVID-19's origins.
In October 2024 after Hurricane Helene caused destruction in several American states, Marjorie Taylor Greene posted online "a map of hurricane affected areas with an overlay of electoral map by political party shows how hurricane devastation could affect the election", then she wrote later that day: "Yes they can control the weather … It's ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can't be done."
In November 2024, Marjorie Taylor Greene was reelected in the general election against Democratic Party nominee Shawn Harris, receiving 64.4 percent of the vote.
In 2024, Marjorie Taylor Greene was re-elected to Congress.
Throughout the Russo-Ukrainian War, and in 2024, Marjorie Taylor Greene promoted Russian propaganda, praised Vladimir Putin, criticized the Ukrainian government, and opposed supplying Ukraine with weapons. She suggested Ukraine instigated the invasion and proposed an amendment requiring House members voting for aid to enlist in the Ukrainian military.
In January 2025, Greene targeted and misgendered congresswoman Sarah McBride in a series of tweets, labeling her a "groomer".
In July 2025, Marjorie Taylor Greene called the situation in Gaza a "genocide" and condemned Israel's conduct. She proposed a defense appropriations amendment to end U.S. funding of Israel's Iron Dome and expressed her condemnation for the suffering of innocent people in both Israel and Gaza. She also condemned Randy Fine, for celebrating the starvation and bombing of Palestinians.
In October 2025, Marjorie Taylor Greene broke with her party over a federal government shutdown, primarily due to a disagreement over a proposed extension of Obamacare subsidies. She voiced strong opposition to the Affordable Care Act and high health insurance premiums.
Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her resignation from Congress effective January 5, 2026, stating that she did not want her district to endure a "hurtful and hateful primary."
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