We live in strange times, said Holly Hudson on The Daily Beast. Who’d have thought, for instance, that the day would come when Marjorie Taylor Greene began “sounding... kind of reasonable”?

The Georgia congresswoman has until now been best known as a conservative firebrand and conspiracy loon. She famously suggested that wildfires might have been started by “Jewish space lasers”, and railed against the “Gazpacho police” (she meant “Gestapo”).

Over recent weeks, however, this once-staunch Donald Trump loyalist has started taking the administration to task. She has blamed Republican leaders for the government shutdown; sided with Democrats in calling for an extension of tax credits for health insurance; railed against high inflation; and stated that her party has “no plan”.

‘Dipping a toe in the pool of Trump defiance’

Greene’s independent streak has not gone unnoticed by Trump, who has apparently been calling around and asking: “What’s been going on with Marjorie?” Trump is right to ask, said Melanie Zanona on NBC News, as Greene is “arguably more in tune with the Maga base than any other member of Congress”. Her attacks may, in fact, be partly motivated by pique: sources say she’s cross that the White House talked her out of running for the Senate, and is disappointed not to have been given a cabinet role.

But there’s also political calculation at work, said Rex Huppke in USA Today. Greene is positioning herself for the post-Trump era. She can see that the president’s popularity is sliding and that the economy is not working well for most Americans. She’s a “gifted grifter dipping a toe in the pool of Trump defiance to see if it makes waves she can ride”.

‘Echoing the frustrations she’s hearing’

Greene’s rebellion is a warning to the Republicans, said Matt Wylie in The State. “She’s not going rogue; she’s echoing the frustrations she’s hearing from her own base.” Trump keeps insisting that prices are falling, yet it’s clear his trade tariffs are hitting people in the pocket. Grocery bills are rising; pay cheques are shrinking. Some voters, meanwhile, are unhappy about Trump launching legal assaults on his political enemies and deploying troops in cities.

“Economic pain, institutional mistrust and political exhaustion are converging into something volatile – a storm of disillusionment that no amount of populist rhetoric can overcome.” The GOP needs to start governing more effectively, or “the cracks in the Maga movement will only widen”.

For much of the 21st century, American political support for Israel has been a bipartisan exercise, cutting across the aisle to become one of the few universally agreed-upon subjects in Washington, D.C. However, as Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip nears the two-year mark, that broad support has eroded significantly.

Not only are Democrats increasingly willing to criticize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ultranationalist government, but certain conservative circles are, too. While President Donald Trump had made the vociferous backing of Israel a key feature of his administration, some members of his MAGA coalition have begun publicly breaking from the party orthodoxy and speaking out against Israel's conduct in Gaza.

'Growing skepticism' over Israel from the right

While the Trump White House has been "measured" in its criticism of Israel, its "cautious approach" contrasts with the "ascendance of a loud wing of the president's base that has sharply criticized Israel," said Politico. While "plenty" of Republicans, including "MAGA loyalists," are still "backing Israel," the party's right flank is growing "increasingly frustrated" with support for a war they see as "politically noxious" and a "moral stain on the country's reputation."

Writing on X that the situation in Gaza amounted to "genocide, humanitarian crisis and starvation," Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) became the "first Republican in Congress" to describe the situation in Gaza as a "genocide" — an "indication of growing skepticism on the right about Israel's conduct of the war," said The New York Times. That Trump himself broke with Netanyahu recently by affirming mass starvation was happening across Gaza is "creating space for a GOP realignment on Israel," Axios said. While "America First" MAGA supporters have been historically skeptical of U.S. foreign aid, Trump had "carved out an exception for Israel," the consensus for which has "eroded at a stunning rate" recently.

While the majority of mainstream Republicans still support Israel's war on Gaza "virtually unconditionally," conservatives willing to speak against the Gaza war are "becoming more influential online and outside Washington," said Responsible Statecraft. That's true "particularly among conservatives under 30."

Republicans willing to speak out about Israel's wartime conduct are likely "reading the tea leaves in terms of public opinion," said Northeastern University Political Scientist Costas Panagopoulos at Newsweek. Lawmakers have been "getting pressure from constituencies about what's going on in Gaza" and are being asked to "hold Israel to account."

Violence that hits 'significantly closer to home'

MAGA's "increasing unease" about Trump's Gaza policy has both put "a spotlight on the administration's close ties with Israel" while raising "additional questions" about Trump's plans moving forward, said The Hill. Escalating violence in both Gaza and the West Bank "hits significantly closer to home" for many of Trump's more "traditionally" conservative supporters who may be "less swayed by flashy controversies" than they are by "harm to Christians" living in those communities, Haaretz said.

"My people are starting to hate Israel," Trump reportedly told a Jewish donor recently, according to a "Middle East expert who speaks regularly with the administration," said the Financial Times. Even so, it's important to avoid "overstating the impact of critics on the far right."

"I don't think" the MAGA frustrations will lead to a "blow-up with Israel and Trump," said the expert, who spoke on condition of anonymity. But "there are people in the White House who are watching this narrative develop in the right wing, in the MAGA world, that is very anti-Israel, very anti-Jewish.”

A few years ago, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and her brand of conspiracy-minded, populist politics seemed to be on the outside looking in. One of several members of the House who was openly aligned with the January 6 Capitol rioters, Greene's close relationship with President Trump looked less like an act of strategic genius and more like she had lashed herself to the bow of a sinking ship. With the then-former president facing a litany of legal and financial difficulties and Democrats holding a trifecta in Washington, D.C., her story might have ended there — if not for Trump's stunning political comeback in 2024. This ultimately led to pardons for everyone convicted in connection with January 6 and the sudden elevation of once-fringe figures like Greene into the political mainstream. After serving as mocked and maligned sidekicks to more serious GOP figures during the first Trump administration, Greene and her allies are now firmly in the driver's seat of national politics. While she has left some of her most outlandish theorizing behind, she continues to say things out loud that most people might leave tucked safely away in the nooks and crannies of their internal monologues.

The co-owner of a general contracting firm and CrossFit franchise before she was elected to the House, Greene rose to prominence as a conservative media figure during the first Trump administration when she published a series of articles for a website called American Truth Seekers. At the now-shuttered website, she "wrote favorably of the QAnon conspiracy theory, suggested that Hillary Clinton murdered her political enemies and ruminated on whether mass shootings were orchestrated to dismantle the Second Amendment," said NBC News. She further boosted her profile prior to her 2020 House campaign with viral stunts, including "a since-deleted Facebook Live" video in which she tried to visit Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in her office and referred to it as "a day care" while "mocking the staff for keeping the door locked," said CNN. But her relentless antics have never seemed to bother voters in her district — she ran unopposed in the 2024 Republican primary for her seat and won a third term in the general election by almost 30 points.

Allegedly conducted extramarital affairs at a CrossFit gym

In 2012, Greene reportedly had affairs with two men at the CrossFit gym where she was employed in Alpharetta, Georgia, "one with a tantric sex guru named Craig Ivey, and another with a gym manager named Justin Tway," said the Independent. She filed for divorce from her husband, Perry, that year but the couple got back together before finalizing a divorce in December 2022. Greene denied the allegations. The episode did not prevent Greene from publicly accusing Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) of having an affair with a Chinese spy during a House Homeland Security committee meeting on April 25, 2023. Republicans had hoped to land blows against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, whom they would later impeach, but "Greene's performance sidetracked that conversation," said Fox News.

Promoted QAnon and other conspiracy theories

The QAnon conspiracy theory held that an "anonymous person called Q was revealing secrets about a child trafficking ring orchestrated by Democrats and global elites," said The Washington Post. Prior to her election to Congress, Greene contributed to the extremist website American Truth Seekers, where she promoted QAnon beliefs. She also "further pushed conspiracy theories on her Facebook page," including the idea that the 2019 mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, that killed 51 people was a false-flag operation designed to undermine American gun rights, said Rolling Stone. Greene also used social media to back conspiracy theories about 9/11 as well as "casting doubt on school shootings," said The Washington Post. "I was allowed to believe things that weren't true and I would ask questions about them and talk about them, and that is absolutely what I regret," said Greene when her past behavior caused Democrats to strip her of her committee assignments in February, 2021.

Blamed California wildfires on space lasers

In a 2018 Facebook post written before her election to Congress, Greene speculated that the deadly Camp Fire was deliberately sparked by Jewish elites in cahoots with the governor of California and power company PG&E to clear land for a high-speed rail project. Her conclusions were based on the observation that "oddly there are all these people who have said they saw what looked like lasers or blue beams causing the fires," leading many observers to claim that Greene believed in "Jewish space lasers." Critics blasted the ludicrous ideas in her post. "Aren't there easier ways to get your rail stations approved by the state legislature?" said Jonathan Chait at New York Magazine. Greene's post was not just absurd but also anti-semitic because "people have used claims that this one particular wealthy family controls the world to cast aspersions on Jews in general" for centuries, said Zack Beauchamp at Vox.

Compared masks and vaccine mandates to the Holocaust

On May 20, 2021, during an interview with David Brody of the far-right news network Real America Voice, Greene complained about the requirement to wear masks during House proceedings. Forcing Jews to wear gold stars and sending them by rail to concentration camps "is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about," said Greene. She later apologized, saying "there are words that I have said, remarks that I have made, that I know are offensive, and for that, I want to apologize." She continued to use analogies to compare vaccine mandates to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. "People have a choice, they don't need your medical brown shirts showing up at their door ordering vaccinations," said Greene in a July 6, 2021, post on X.

Opposed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election

Following President Donald Trump's defeat in the 2020 presidential election, Greene quickly embraced his lies about Democrats using fraud to change the outcome. "I will not certify a stolen election," she wrote in a January 3, 2021, post on X. There remains no credible evidence that there was systematic fraud in the 2020 election. "Biden won the election, fairly and legally," said CNN.

Greene was one of the 139 House Republicans who voted against certifying the 2020 presidential election during the counting of electoral votes on January 6, 2021, a process which was interrupted by the Capitol insurrection. Greene continued to insist that the 2020 election was stolen, and prior to the 2024 election claimed in an interview with far-right extremist Alex Jones that voting machines were switching early votes in Georgia. After Trump's victory in 2024, she did not make any further accusations of election fraud.

Blamed the January 6, 2021, insurrection on Black Lives Matter and Antifa

Greene has vacillated between blaming the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot on left-wing agitators and complaining about how Black Lives Matter protesters allegedly got away with violence during the summer of 2020. Initially, she scoffed at the idea that Trump supporters could really have been behind the riot. "If the #Jan6 organizers were Trump supporters, then why did they attack us while we were objecting to electoral college votes for Joe Biden?" she said in a February 9, 2021, post on X. Greene still sometimes groundlessly blames the insurrection on left-wing agitators. "I fully believe they were Antifa/BLM [Black Lives Matter] rioters," said Greene in a November 2023 appearance on Triggered, Donald Trump, Jr.'s podcast.

Endorsed violence against Democrats

In social media posts prior to her election to Congress, Greene repeatedly endorsed violence against prominent Democratic officials, including former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In one video posted to Facebook in 2019, Greene accused Pelosi of treason, which is "a crime punishable by death," said Greene. In another 2020 Facebook post prior to her election, Greene posted a picture of herself holding an assault rifle next to pictures of Reps. Rashida Tlaib (R-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-MInn.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) with the caption "Squad's Worst Nightmare." That history of violent rhetoric and imagery was part of the reason Democrats voted to remove her from committees in 2021.

Suggested Democrats manipulated Hurricane Helene to influence the 2024 election

Greene's history of building conspiracies around natural disasters got longer in October 2024, when Hurricane Helene ravaged parts of the U.S. Southeast a month before the presidential election, including the electoral battleground state of North Carolina. "Yes they can control the weather," said Greene in an October 3, 2024 post on X. "It's ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can't be done." The post remains live and undeleted on her timeline. The congresswoman "is no stranger to misinformation" and her comments were "met with a wave of criticism," said The Guardian. Her comments even prompted some in her own party to disavow the conspiracy, including Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.). "Nobody can control the weather," said Edwards in an October 8, 2024 press release. Many observers, however, were not shocked. "Some things in this world that are inevitable: death, sunrise and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene responding to tragedies with pure insanity," said Rolling Stone. Following the Texas flooding disaster over the July 4 weekend that killed 138 people, Greene introduced a bill that will "prohibit the release of chemicals into the atmosphere intended to change the weather, temperature, climate or block out sunlight," said Politico.

Traded stocks during the rollout of President Trump's new tariffs

Greene was one of a number of Republicans whose stock trading in April 2025, as President Trump was rolling out his "Liberation Day" tariff policies, raised suspicions. Greene "purchased between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of stock on April 8 and 9, the day before and the day of" the tariff rollout, said The New York Times. Those dealings caused even fellow Republican Congressman Mike Lawler to argue that "stock trading by members of Congress or their spouses should be banned." She has also drawn criticism for investing in the company Palantir shortly before it received a massive contract from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Greene has "has long been dogged by allegations of insider trading, which she denies," said The Independent. The issue may yet cause a more problematic rift for the GOP, given that Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna "will attempt to force a House vote on a congressional stock trading ban in September," said Politico.

Claimed the death of Pope Francis was a blow struck by God against evil

Following the death of Pope Francis on April 21, 2025, Greene posted inflammatory remarks on X suggesting that his passing was a deliberate part of God's battle against wickedness. "Today, there were major shifts in global leaderships," said Greene. "Evil is being defeated by the hand of God." Greene never elaborated on exactly what she meant and "did not issue any clarification after coming under fire for the post," said The New Republic. "While it's unclear if the post was directly referencing Pope Francis," she has "been critical of church leadership" during the reign of Francis, said Yahoo News. According to the congresswoman, she left the church years ago after she became a mother, "because I realized that I could not trust the Church leadership to protect my children from pedophiles," said Greene in an April 27, 2022 post on X. That post was itself an attempt to mitigate the fallout from an interview she had given in which she claimed that "Satan's controlling the church."

Feuded with Trump advisor Laura Loomer

In August 2025, a deposition of Laura Loomer stemming from her defamation lawsuit against HBO talk show host Bill Maher was leaked to the press. In the deposition, the conspiracy-theorist-turned-Trump-consigliere who wields extraordinary power inside the White House unleashed a series of wild accusations against Greene, including that the Georgia congresswoman routinely puts Arby's roast beef in her pants. When pressed for details about how she knows this, Loomer responded, "Because I know she likes to eat at Arby's." In the deposition, Loomer also accused Greene of being a "political prostitute" who performed sex acts on former House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as well as a "raging anti-semite" who is disliked by senior members of President Trump's staff. Loomer has also attacked Greene for her criticisms of the U.S. backing Israel. "It's the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct. 7 in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis and starvation happening in Gaza," said Greene in a July 28 post on X. Loomer and Greene have traded accusations of corruption, with Greene claiming Loomer is an Israeli intelligence asset and Loomer accusing Greene of funneling campaign cash to her daughter. Given that Loomer appears to have the power to make consequential personnel decisions on bodies like the National Security Council, her feud with Greene may lead to her falling out of favor with President Trump, a cruel fate for those who yoke their political fortunes to the MAGA leader.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), one of the speakers at former President Donald Trump's rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday, said that if Republicans win control of Congress next week, they will use their power of the purse to cut off military aid to Ukraine as it battles Russian invaders. "Under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine," she said, to cheers from the crowd.

Sens. Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) visited Kyiv on Thursday to "underscore the broad support that continues to exist in Congress for the Ukrainian people," they said in a joint statement. "Clearly, what's going on in Ukraine is something that Republicans ought to focus on, because it's in our national security interest," Portman told reporters.

There is broad bipartisan support for arming Ukraine but a faction of Republicans oppose such aid. And "Portman, who is retiring, may be replaced by Republican candidate JD Vance, who opposes continued aid to Ukraine," Fox News reports. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has said a GOP House won't give Ukraine a "blank check."

Greene used to be a far-right gadfly in the party for her adherence to QAnon conspiracies and other misinformation, but she has become a major GOP fundraiser and power player as the Republican Party has shifted in her direction, as Robert Draper detailed in The New York Times Magazine last month. Greene is supporting McCarthy for House speaker if the GOP wins, but that support comes with a cost.

"I think that to be the best speaker of the House and to please the base, he's going to give me a lot of power and a lot of leeway," Greene told Draper. "And if he doesn't, they're going to be very unhappy about it. I think that's the best way to read that. And that's not in any way a threat at all. I just think that's reality."

Has Marjorie Taylor Greene even read the Bible?

She certainly has some opinions about it. The notorious Republican congresswoman from Georgia recently gave an interview in which she asserted that American church groups that assist migrant refugees are "not adhering to the teachings of Christ" but instead are the result of "Satan's controlling the church."

"The church is not doing its job, and it's not adhering to the teachings of Christ, and it's not adhering to what the word of God says we're supposed to do and how we're supposed to live," Greene said. Sure, those teachings include the command to love one another, she said, "but their definition of what love one another means, means destroying our laws. It means completely perverting what our Constitution says. It means taking unreal advantage of the American taxpayer." If groups like Catholic Charities took a tougher stance against immigration, "loving one another would have the true meaning and not the perversion and the twisted lie that they're making it to be."

Now I've been fallen away from the church a few years, but I definitely remember that among Christ's teachings is the parable of the Good Samaritan, a story about a man who showed mercy on a traveler who had been beaten by robbers.

And I remember this from the Gospel of Matthew:

Listen: There's nothing more tedious than a non-Christian citing Biblical chapter and verse to Christians, but Greene cited the "teachings of Christ" and these (if you're a believer) are the teachings of Christ. It's not clear what other actual teachings she's referring to other than her own intense feelings about the Constitution and immigration. That's not the same thing.

This would be little more than a minor theological debate if not for the fact Christianity ostensibly guides one of our major political parties. So it matters. Greene is not the first or last person to filter their religion through the prism of their own personal and political preferences. I'm probably doing it right here. But Greene's comments have all the hallmarks of a glib Biblical illiteracy that she brandishes as a cudgel against "the least of these." We'd all be better off if Christian nationalism was actually more Christian.

"A little over a year ago, thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building in an attempt to stop the election from being certified, and they wanted declare Donald Trump Super-President Forever No Backsies," Trevor Noah said on Monday's Daily Show. "But the Capitol riot wasn't even the scariest thing that happened on Jan. 6, because you see, my friends, we're now finding out that something else happened that day: Countless Republicans seem to have had their memories erased."

"I know it sounds crazy," Noah deadpanned, but to illustrate his point, he explained how House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Rick Perry suddenly have no memory of what they said and did a little over a year ago, "and it looks like nobody has been hit harder by Jan. 6 amnesia" that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)," he added, showing Greene's testimony last week — and how her memory was briefly jogged by evidence. "Clearly this person's unqualified for Congress, because politicians are supposed to be good at lying," he sighed. "This was just embarrassing." Still, it would make a good prestige TV show, The Daily Show suggested.

"It's really me, the Easter Bunny," said a bunny-suit-clad Bowen Yang to kick off the latest Saturday Night Live cold open. "Either that, or you're at Coachella and the shrooms are kicking in." Then, in the "Easter spirit" of "renewal and rebirth," he invited a variety of figures to take the stage and "share their hopes for this Easter season."

First to address the audience was Dr. Anthony Fauci (Kate McKinnon). "I know, yeah, I'm still here … trust me, I'm not here to give you any more 'COVID guidance.' I'm not stupid enough to think you're actually gonna follow it. All I'll say is that COVID cases are a lot like Jesus — they've risen again!" McKinnon-as-Fauci said.

Next up was GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Cecily Strong), who was, of course, armed with an AR-15. "I've been saying aggressively to all my Jewish and Muslim colleagues, 'Happy Easter!' Don't worry. This rifle's chocolate, but the bullets are real," she said.

Other guests included New York City Mayor Eric Adams (Chris Redd), Elon Musk (Mikey Day) — who offered to buy Easter for 23 billion Peeps — Britney Spears (Chloe Fineman), and Jared Leto (Kyle Mooney), who initially introduced himself as Jesus Christ.

As the Easter Bunny attempted to wrap up the segment, former President Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) dropped by to share his own Easter wishes. "I told America COVID would be over by Easter. I just didn't say which one," Johnson-as-Trump said.

Did you order the gazpacho? Or were you hoping for vichyssoise? That's just one of the many jokes provoked by the latest gaffe by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). In an interview on Wednesday with the right-wing One American News Network, Greene denounced "Nancy Pelosi's gazpacho police" — a reference to allegations that the Capitol Police improperly investigated members of Congress. By the end of the day, Greene herself got into the Soup Nazi act, tweeting, "No soup for those who illegally spy on Members of Congress, but they will be thrown in the goulash."

The stakes were minute even by the standards of social media controversy. Surveying the responses, it's hard to avoid the impression that Greene's critics thoroughly enjoyed the diversion from their real jobs. Still, the timing, just a few weeks after related spats about Whoopi Goldberg and the removal of the graphic novel Maus from a Tennessee middle school curriculum, points toward a more serious question. Do Americans know enough about the Holocaust and the Nazi regime?

Surprisingly, the answer may be yes. As Yair Rosenberg reports in The Atlantic, Americans are well-informed on the topic. According to a 2020 Pew study:

The results aren't all good news. The report also found:

Still, public knowledge of the Holocaust is far better than almost any aspect of American history or politics. While more than 80 percent display some understanding of the Holocaust, majorities are unable to identify basic constitutional structures or major figures and events. As I've noted before, this isn't a new problem. Evidence of widespread civic ignorance goes back as far as we have systematic data.

Rosenberg argues that Americans' relatively strong knowledge of the Holocaust and the omnipresence of analogies to the Third Reich is an educational success story. I'm not so sure.

For one thing, public awareness of the Holocaust is probably not the result of formal teaching. A recent study by the American Historical Association found the top sources for information about the past were TV and film. Even non-classroom educational settings, such as museums, were far less popular. It's a limitation of the survey that it didn't consider K-12 schools, where all students receive at least some history instruction. But it's not unreasonable to think that the dominant influence is Hollywood, where Nazis have served as all-purpose villains for more than 75 years.

Whatever its cause, moreover, disproportionate attention to the Holocaust is intellectually distorting. Nazis atrocities must never be forgotten. But there's something wrong when they're just about the only things Americans know about Jewish or European history, both of which include ample evidence of the best human capacities as well as the worst. Nor is there anything to celebrate when Americans are much better acquainted with foreign events than with our own past, which includes its horrors as well as its triumphs.

The neglect of other events, periods, and regions has damaging political consequences, too. Greene and other populist opponents of COVID restrictions have been rightly criticized for comparing mask requirements or vaccine mandates to Nazi policies. But American thinking on foreign policy is seriously distorted by the respectable habit of identifying every authoritarian ruler as another Hitler and every territorial dispute as a second Munich. Historical analogies are a valuable tool of political reasoning. But they don't work if you only know one case for comparison.

Foreign policy isn't the only area where our obsession with Nazis is an obstacle to clear thinking. During riots in the summer of 2020, progressives denounced federal agents deployed to protect courthouses and other government installations as Trump's equivalent to "Brown shirts [sic]." There were legitimate concerns about violations of civil liberties, but it's not fascism to try to stop violent attacks on public property.

To be fair, the denunciation of heavy-handed law enforcement as Nazi-like oppression isn't limited to the left. In 1995, an infamous NRA mailing described ATF and FBI personnel in the siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, as "jack-booted government thugs, federal agents wearing Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms to attack law-abiding citizens." There's considerable evidence that the authorities catastrophically bungled the situation, leading to the deaths of four ATF agents and a total of 82 Branch Davidians (including more than 20 children). But the main reason was a very American combination of bureaucratic incompetence and militarized tactics — not cold-blooded murder justified by an ideology of dominance.

Greene's gazpacho gaffe is funny, but these situations are no laughing matter. And it's not crazy to worry that misplaced Nazi rhetoric makes it harder to discuss public health, public safety, or anything else. But the answer isn't to make the Holocaust even more central to classroom education, popular culture, or political discourse. Paradoxically, we might understand more if we talked about it less.

President Biden was nearly stranded on Air Force One after the deplaning truck got stuck in snow-hit Washington, D.C., Jimmy Fallon said on Monday's Tonight Show. "The last time D.C. was hit with that much whiteness it was Jan. 6," he joked. "If you're keeping track, Biden can somehow walk down a flight of icy stairs in the snow but not up a flight of stairs when it's nice out."

Fallon also showed NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown taking off his shirt and walking off the field — and off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — on Sunday. "Before you judge him, that's the same way Andy Cohen left Times Square on Saturday," he joked.

"Usually, when someone gets that angry-drunk on live TV, they have to go explain their behavior to Andy Cohen," Stephen Colbert said at The Late Show, showing Cohen's rant and laughing at his explanation that he was "overserved."

"Oh, there is news about Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene," whose Twitter account was permanently suspended Sunday for violating its "five-strike policy" on posting COVID-19 misinformation, Colbert said. "Speaking of insane people trying to destroy everything, we're approaching the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection. In lieu of flowers, the rioters are asking for money in their prison canteen accounts."

The House Jan. 6 committee says it now has proof former President Donald Trump watched the insurrection unfold on TV in the Oval Office dining room, then "kept having to retape his video telling fans to leave the Capitol riot, which may explain his 187-minute silence during the attack," Colbert said. "Over three hours of silence from the former president! That's an unheard-of phenomenon — that Melania calls 'my dream date.'"

The Late Show also shared audio of Trump's Jan. 6 outtakes.

Late Night's Seth Meyers gave some context to Andy Cohen's live Bill de Blasio rant, then applauded Greene's Twitter ban — and Trump's — as "a huge quality-of-life improvement," explaining that "trying to live in a world where people like Trump and Greene are constantly screaming insane s--t on Twitter is like trying to have a conversation with a friend on the street next to a jackhammer."

Meyers also highlighted other conservatives who, like Greene, are "so deeply invested in the unhinged idea that any attempt at all to curb the spread of COVID is somehow tyranny," from Fox & Friends hosts to Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.).