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Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who recently announced she will be leaving office in January after a falling out with President Donald Trump, spoke out against the “the MAGA Mar-a-Lago sexualization” which she has always been “uncomfortable” with.
In an interview with The New York Times, the 51-year-old congresswoman criticized what has emerged as the so-called MAGA beauty aesthetics this year, which plays up femininity to an almost caricatural point.
“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,” Greene said.
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Newsweek contacted the White House and Greene’s spokesperson on Tuesday morning, outside of standard working hours for comment.
Why It Matters
A deepening rift has emerged this year within the same MAGA movement that brought Trump back to the White House, as conservative influencers and lawmakers argue over Israel, the Jeffrey Epstein files, the administration’s anti-immigration crackdown, tariffs, and many other burning issues.
No other person embodies this growing division better than Greene, once a MAGA hard-liner and one of the most unwavering Trump loyalists, now turned one of the party’s harshest critics.
While Greene has insisted that she supports the president even as she announced she will quit Congress soon, Trump labeled her a “traitor” in November and attacked her as “wacky.”
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After months of clashing with the president over her criticism of the administration’s policies, Greene announced in November that she would resign from Congress, with her official last day being January 5, 2026.
In her resignation statement, Greene said she refused “to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better.”
Over the last few months, she has repeatedly talked about how MAGA women were being marginalized by the movement and the Republican Party. In an interview on CNN’s The Situation Room in September, the Georgia congresswoman accused House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana of sidelining Republican women in Congress.
“It is extremely frustrating as a rank-and-file Republican member and in our majority, our Republican majority, that many of us women are not taken seriously, and our legislation is not taken seriously,” she said.
Now, she is taking aim at the MAGA movement’s treatment of women, what she called their “sexualization” in her interview with The New York Times.
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Several beauty trends for conservative women have emerged this year, some with a certain underlying level of humor—from the so-called Mar-a-Lago face to the "conservative girl" makeup.
What all these trends have in common under the umbrella of MAGA beauty is an emphasis on hyperfeminine attire—sky-high stilettos, fitting skirts, bouncy hair, full-coverage makeup, and conspicuous plastic surgery.
Greene said that while she had not previously spoken up against these trends, she disliked them. “I believe how women in leadership present themselves sends a message to younger women,” she told The New York Times.
While Greene did not point the finger at Trump over the trends, she did say that the president “has a woman problem.”
Before his election in 2016, Trump made headlines for the derogatory way he talked about women after footage from 2005 revealed he had said, "And when you’re a star, they let you do it, you can do anything…grab them by the p****.” On top of that, a 2023 trial found that Trump had sexually abused author E. Jean Carroll.
What Happens Next
Greene’s unhappiness with the MAGA movement, the Republican Party and the president could reflect a wider frustration among Trump supporters.
In her interview with the Times, the Georgia congresswoman said: “There’s a significant reason why women overwhelmingly don’t vote Republican,” she said. “I think there’s a very big message here.”
In the 2024 presidential election, a majority of 53 percent of women voted for then-Vice President Kamala Harris, while 45 percent voted for Trump. The numbers were almost exactly reversed for men: 55 percent voted for Trump, while 43 percent voted for Harris.
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