Marjorie Taylor Greene talks about losing patience in Congress

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) leaves the House chamber after a series of votes in the Capitol on June 14, 2024.

Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia commented on heated exchanges in Congress in a recent interview.

Greene is one of the most outspoken GOP members in the House and has had tense exchanges with her colleagues. During a recent appearance on comedian Russell Brand’s show, he asked her if she had ever said anything and thought, “I really shouldn’t have said that, that was a little too strong.”

“Yes, of course,” she said replied.

She pointed to a heated exchange during a House Oversight Committee hearing in May when she and other lawmakers hurled personal insults at each other. At one point, Greene told Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) that her “false eyelashes mess up what you’re reading.”

This sparked outrage among Democrats, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.). Later, Crockett appeared to counter Greene with a hypothetical question about a “blonde, poorly built butch body.”

Greene told Brand that lawmakers simply “went at each other” during the hearing, pointing out that people had only seen snippets of that exchange, not the 45 minutes preceding it.

“But nobody saw what led to this turning point,” she said in the episode that aired Wednesday. “And that’s usually the hard part, isn’t it: understanding why are they yelling at each other? What happened? Why did MTG just break down and say these things to people?”

She stated that she only loses patience when she or former President Trump are personally attacked.

“It’s usually because I keep getting pressured and I hear them calling Donald Trump ‘our orange messiah,’ or I hear them attacking me personally, or they hold up my tweets or social media posts to X, paraphrasing my words and lying about what I said. And I have to sit there and take it and take it and take it,” she said.

“And yes, and in those moments, I lost patience and just ran up the hill and said things that maybe I shouldn’t have said. But you know, I’m human and I make mistakes too,” she continued.