Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) expressed deep concern Saturday over her personal safety, emphasizing that receiving aggressive threats is "completely shocking" and entirely different from that time in 2019 when she filmed herself following Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg around Washington, D.C., calling him a "coward" while he tried to walk away.
"I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world," Greene wrote on social media, apparently having completely forgotten the video she personally uploaded to her own YouTube channel showing her trailing the then-18-year-old mass shooting survivor while repeatedly accusing him of being paid by George Soros to "attack the Second Amendment."
The Georgia congresswoman told associates that Trump's aggressive rhetoric—including calling her "Wacky Marjorie," a "traitor," and threatening to support a primary challenger with his "Complete and Unyielding Support"—has created a threatening environment, which she noted is totally distinct from when she confronted Hogg weeks after seventeen of his classmates were murdered and said on camera, "He's a coward. He can't say one word because he can't defend his stance."
"Aggressive rhetoric attacking me has historically led to death threats," Greene explained in her post, somehow maintaining a straight face despite documented evidence that she previously described the Parkland shooting as a "false flag" operation and called Hogg "#littleHitler" on social media before gleefully recounting to Georgia Gun Owners that she "confronted David Hogg twice, and he ran away."
Political observers noted Greene's newfound understanding that powerful figures using inflammatory language can endanger others—an insight she apparently did not possess when she told Hogg, a teenager coping with PTSD from watching his classmates die, that she had a concealed carry permit while following him down the street demanding he answer her questions.
Sources confirmed that Greene characterized Trump's attacks as unprecedented political aggression, even though she had previously mocked Hogg's appearance, called him "an idiot" who is "trained like a dog," and accused him of being "completely scripted" in a 2019 interview where she bragged about harassing him.
"This time by the President of the United States," Greene wrote of the threats against her, as if there were some meaningful moral distinction between being targeted by the sitting president versus targeting a traumatized teenager who watched his friends bleed to death in their high school.
