Marjorie Taylor Greene joins 'The View' after dumping Trump, Congress

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, seeking sympathy and settling scores, appeared on the nation's No. 1 talk show, "The View," on Jan. 7, two months after her fiery falling out with one-time ally President Donald Trump.

The Georgia congresswoman returned to the Hot Topics table on Wednesday for her first exclusive interview since her shocking Jan. 5 exit from the House of Representatives.

"The straw that broke the camel's back for me was the president calling me a traitor for standing with women who were raped when they were teenagers," Greene said, referring to women who say they were exploited in connection with Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sex trafficking ring. "One of MAGA's big campaign pledges was to release the Epstein files."

Greene added that she left Congress after she began wondering if she might become "the next Charlie Kirk," the conservative activist who authorities say was assassinated by a lone gunman during a campus event in Utah in September.

When Greene was asked by the panel's legal hawk, Sunny Hostin, if she was distancing herself from Trump to save her own future political hopes, Greene said no, she would not pursue a future in politics.

"I've said over and over again to exhaustion, I'm not running for Senate, I'm not running for governor, I'm not running for president," Greene told Hostin, declining to say if she'd leave the Republican party.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's last day came and went

In November, on a random Friday night, Greene announced her resignation from Congress. "I'm going back to the people I love, to live life to the fullest as I always have, and look forward to a new path ahead," she said Nov. 21.

"I've always represented the common American man and woman as a member of the House of Representatives, which is why I've always been despised in Washington, DC, and never fit in," Greene said.

One week earlier, Trump unloaded on Greene in a Truth Social post on Nov. 14. "She has gone Far Left, even doing The View," the president wrote, referring to Green's previous appearance on the show that features a panel packed with some of his strongest critics in daytime media.

The next month, on Dec. 28, a notably serene Greene toted a paddleboard in a bright blue bikini over rippled sand toward the Costa Rican surf in an Instagram video post. Freshly engaged to 56-year-old far-right White House reporter Brian Glenn, Greene was all smiles. "51 years old and feeling like my 24 year old self again," she captioned the post.

"The water was a little choppy today, but it wasn't bad at all," Greene said into the camera in the video. "It's really beautiful." Greene has had a choppy year, but she plotted a return to talk with "The View" panel in the new year.

“Those women were the same type of women that have always been my friends," she said in a New York Times profile published Dec. 29. "College-educated, affluent suburban women − that’s who I am. So I couldn’t wait to talk to these ladies. I was so tired of the toxic politics.”

Jan. 5, Greene's last day as a public official, came and went. Little hype was made about Greene's departure from Congress following the Trump administration's weekend capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.

'Absolutely not': MTG shoos away Trump reunion

Her first day out of the House fell on the fifth anniversary of a day that made her a household name. During the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol building, Greene was denying the results of the 2020 presidential election that former President Joe Biden won over Trump.

Her former foe Jasmine Crockett, the Democratic congresswoman from Dallas, was the marquee guest on "The View" for the anniversary of the Capitol riots.

"I can only hope that she's changed," Crockett told "The View" hosts. "I don't quite believe it, but I do want people to give her grace to the extent that she is doing something that, honestly, most of the boys are afraid to do."

Nearly two years after Crockett called Greene a "bleach blonde bad built butch body" for insulting her false eyelashes, Crockett proceeded to laud her former foe, saying she was brave to take a stand against Trump.

The next day, Greene reunited with those college-educated, affluent suburban women during the Jan. 7 taping of her appearance on the show. Greene said on "The View" that "politics is so extreme and divisive" and she no longer wants any part in it.

She also called out House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republican congressional leaders for having a "woman problem."

"Not only does (Trump) not have a good reputation with women, I would argue the Republican party has a woman problem as well," Greene told co-hosts Hostin, comedian Joy Behar, moderator Whoopi Goldberg, ex-Trump spokeswoman Alyssa Farah Griffin and Midwest-born moderate Sara Haines.

"We Republican women who have served in the House, we have been vocal about that," Greene told the panel. "There's quite a few others."

New York Rep. Elise Stefanik − a member of Johnson's leadership team who also recently announced she will leave Congress − and South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace have both called out their male GOP colleagues in recent months.

When the co-hosts asked about her future, Greene said, "I don't have any plans, which is one of the nicest things that I've had in a long time," adding she looked forward to seeing her mom, her aunt and her friends.

"If he begs you to come back, would you go back?" Behar asked in reference to Trump.

"Who? My ex-husband?" Greene joked about the father of her three children, Perry Greene, whom she split from in 2022. "No, just kidding."

"Absolutely not, the way he treated me," Greene said of Trump. "No."

Greene is feeling like herself again, whoever that may be.