Marjorie Taylor Greene Obviously Is Going to Be Trump’s Running Mate, Right?

Who else would it be?

Will Leitch
4 min readJan 30, 2023

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This week, Marjorie Taylor Greene made her move. In the wake of a deeply disturbing New York Times story about how new Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy has forged an “iconclad” bond with lunatic Jewish-space-lasers-Hillary-eats-babies Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the inevitable stories leaked out: Greene wants to be Trump’s Vice President:

“She sees herself on the short list for Trump’s VP. Paraphrasing Cokie Roberts, when MTG looks in the mirror she sees a potential president smiling back,” [Steve Bannon] said in an interview, referring to Roberts, the late political reporter who worked for NPR, ABC News and other outlets.

A second source who has advised Greene said her “whole vision is to be vice president.” The source, who has ties to Trump and spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations, said he also believes Greene would be on Trump’s short list.

This is obviously a terrifying prospect for Republicans, Democrats and, frankly, of all humanity. It’s so terrifying, in fact, that the temptation is to mock the very notion of it, to imagine Greene staring in a mirror, Dirk Diggler-style, and telling herself that she’s a great big shining star. That person? As a…

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Will Leitch

Author of six books, including “How Lucky” and "The Time Has Come." NYMag/MLB.. Founder, Deadspin. https://williamfleitch.substack.com