Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Confrontations with British Journalists: A Pattern of Dismissive Exchanges

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) got very angry at a news meeting in March 2025 when she talked to Sky News reporter Martha Kelner. Kelner tried to ask Greene about the “Signalgate” story, in which leaked Signal texts between Trump administration officials talked about going to war in Yemen. Greene stopped Kelner and asked, “Wait. Where are you from?” when he heard his British accent. “We don’t give a crap about your opinion and your reporting,” Greene told Kelner after she said she was British. “Why don’t you go back to your country?”

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This isn’t the only event like this. Back in June 2022, Greene was asked by British reporter Siobhan Kennedy what she thought about gun laws in the U.S. Kennedy said that the U.K. didn’t have any mass killings. Marjorie Taylor Greene answered, “You do have mass stabbings, lady.” Any way you kill someone is against the law. “You can go back to your country and worry about not having guns,” she said. This is where we like ours.

In March 2024, Marjorie Taylor Greene got into a small fight with Emily Maitlis, a British artist. It proved how mean she was. When Maitlis asked her about the claim that she believed in a plan involving “Jewish space lasers,” Greene told him, “Why don’t you f*** off?” and then she left. A lot of people are mad about what we said.

Some people say that Greene’s rude and sometimes insulting answers to foreign reporters show that he doesn’t like it when the media looks closely at him. They say this kind of behavior goes against the open communication and responsibility that are important in free countries. Supporters, on the other hand, see Greene’s bravery as a defense of national authority and the right way to deal with what they see as outside interference in domestic affairs.

We think about the role of foreign media in U.S. politics and what leaders should do when they talk to the press because these fights happen so often. Leaders are used to being asked tough questions by reporters. How they answer can have a big impact on how people see them and on relations between countries.

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Finally, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s repeated fights with British reporters show how difficult it is for leaders and the media to get along. These events show what can go wrong when writers from other countries look closely at how things are run in a country. Bigger debates about freedom of the press, government, and what people can and can’t say in public are also shown. •