Marjorie Taylor Greene blew up at a British reporter on Wednesday, only for her attempted scolding to embarrassingly backfire.
“What country are you from?” the Georgia congresswoman snapped at Sky News correspondent Martha Kelner, who was asking a question about American lives being put at risk by the Trump team planning military operations in a group chat.
When Kelner replied that she was from the U.K., Greene went off.
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“OK, we don’t give a crap about your opinion and your reporting,” she said, wagging her finger, before exploding, “Why don’t you go back to your country where you have a major migrant problem? You should care about your own borders.”
Kelner kept pressing while Greene waved her off: “No, you’re done. I don’t care about your fake news.”
But when Greene tried moving on, calling on another journalist with a pointed, “This is an American journalist, thank you,” she got an unexpected reality check.
“I’m an American and I’d like to hear your answer to what she’s asking,” the journalist said.
Again, Greene refused to engage—at least until the American journalist repeated back Kelner’s initial question himself.
The MAGA firebrand has mirrored Donald Trump’s confrontational rhetoric towards Europe in recent years.
In January, she penned an angry X post at the U.K. after it became clear that the country would not be adopting Trump’s new name for the Gulf of Mexico.
“We have to force this to happen and we should!” she said.
Last year, she told Sky News that David Cameron—then the U.K.’s foreign minister—“really needs to worry about his own country, and frankly, he can kiss my a--.” Cameron had urged the U.S. to send more aid to Ukraine.
Greene never directly addressed Kelner’s question about Trump officials potentially endangering military personnel by using the Signal app to plan attacks, instead deflecting the issue and launching into a tirade against the Biden administration’s border policies.
Earlier, she had chaired a hearing in which she and fellow GOP colleagues slammed the heads of NPR and PBS, accusing the public media networks of becoming, “radical, left-wing echo chambers.”
“That’s what this is about today,” she said as she hurried away from Kelner and other reporters, “not journalists from the U.K. that should care about their own country.”
