The soon-to-be ex-Congresswoman should enjoy the media attention. While it lasts.

 

U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene speaking with attendees at the 2023 Young Women’s Leadership Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. June 11, 2023. Photo: Gage Skidmore)

Media outlets are making much of GOP infighting, but, as usual, it’s hard to separate fact from fiction. Like the failed doomsday prophets of yesteryear, their many predictions of Donald Trump’s political demise never come to pass.

And yet. They persist.

“Trump Slammed by Heritage Hardliner Over ‘Fake’ Deportations,” wrote Alicia A. Caldwell for Bloomberg over the weekend.

Getting “slammed” meaning that Trump was criticized by one party insider who said the President needs to “try harder.”

“From Musk to Kimmel, a Look at Trump’s Biggest Feuds of 2025,” gushed Callum Sutherland for Time Magazine. 

There were Republican names on the list. The media loves an anti-Trump Republican, preferably someone from the inner circle with dirt to dish and an ax to grind. So no one has been feted more by left-leaning media outlets lately than Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Taylor Greene is currently getting the kind of media attention Republican candidates for office can only dream of.

“Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump,” announced Robert Draper for the New York Times Magazine, beside a flatter photo of Taylor Greene.

Unflattering photographs of political opponents has long been a sly requirement at the NYT and other major media outlets. It’s a subtle form of manipulation. All things being equal, attractive people are generally perceived as more trustworthy and intelligent.

Which is why Republicans tends to be pictured with eyes half-closed. Mouth mid-snarl. Awkward lighting. A freeze-frame that suggests anger, confusion, or incompetence. Extreme close-ups. When the subject is a Democrat, the image tends to be warmer — smiling, composed, competent.

So when a conservative Republican like Marjorie Taylor Greene is shown in a flattering light by the New York Times, it means something.

“How the Georgia congresswoman went from the president’s loudest cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic,” as Robert Draper explained for the NYT.

“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,” he admitted.

 Taylor Greene should enjoy the positive media attention while it lasts.

Republican members of Congress who criticize Donald Trump will always be in demand by progressive media outlets ever eager to undermine and defeat him.

Former members of Congress who want to do the same are far less welcome.

(Contributing writer, Brooke Bell)