GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is pushing back hard on rumors that she plans to run for president. After announcing she would resign from Congress in January, speculation exploded — but she shut it down immediately on Sunday. “I’m not running for President and never said I wanted to and have only laughed about it when anyone would mention it,” Greene wrote on X.
The rumors began to swirl after outlets like Time Magazine and NOTUS reported that Greene had privately floated a 2028 presidential bid. Greene blasted those reports as nonsense. She said people don’t understand what actually goes into running for the highest office in the country, and they definitely don’t understand why she has no desire to do it.
She said running for president means traveling nonstop, begging donors, living in permanent exhaustion, destroying your health and personal life, and doing it all to enter a broken system that blocks real solutions. “The fact that I’d have to go through all that but would be totally blocked from truly fixing anything is exactly why I would never do it,” Greene wrote. For her, that was enough reason to never even consider it.
The Georgia Republican said she is “not motivated by power and titles,” and accused Washington of being rotten to the core. She called it the “Political Industrial Complex,” claiming it crushes people who genuinely want change and rewards those who keep the status quo alive. Greene said she knows they’d never allow someone like her — or the everyday Americans she represents — to actually fix the crises facing the country.
Her surprise announcement that she’s leaving Congress came after a dramatic split with President Trump, who withdrew his endorsement and publicly criticized her. Greene, once seen as one of Trump’s most loyal defenders, hardened in recent months against GOP leadership over health care, affordability, and shutdown negotiations. While the party waffled on transparency, she kept demanding full release of the Epstein files.
For a lawmaker who built her brand as a firebrand ally of Trump and conservative grassroots voters, her resignation shocked Washington. It also triggered widespread theories — including that she was maneuvering for the presidency. Greene says those rumors are not just wrong, but ridiculous. She insists she would never waste her life in a system that refuses to let anyone actually fix the problems it created.