President Trump is demanding that ‘60 Minutes’ apologize for airing an interview with the former MAGA firebrand and outgoing congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, blasting CBS’s new ownership as no better than the last and using his pejorative nickname for Ms. Greene in describing her as a “very dumb person” and “Rotten Apple!”

“She sort of reminds me of a Rotten Apple! Marjorie is not AMERICA FIRST or MAGA, because nobody could have changed her views so fast, and her new views are those of a very dumb person,” the president wrote Monday on his TruthSocial social media platform. 

Ms. Greene, who recently announced plans to leave Congress in January, has emerged in recent months as one of Mr. Trump’s most vocal Republican detractors. She told host Lesley Stahl in the interview that aired Sunday evening that her relationship with the president soured after she demanded that the president’s Justice Department release its files on now-deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. 

“I stood for women who were raped when they were 14 years old and the president called me a traitor for that,” the former MAGA devotee said. “Things changed after that.”

Ms. Greene’s relationship with the president was the main topic of discussion on the weekly news program, one of several interviews she has given in recent weeks to top media to express her remorse for backing the president.

After the interview aired, the president not only criticized Ms. Greene, but also held no powder against CBS and Ms. Stahl, whom he claimed still owes him an apology for reporting that a discarded laptop owned by the former president’s son, Hunter Biden, was fake. 

Mr. Trump’s issues with “60 Minutes” are not new. He sued the network in October 2024 for what he said was deceptive editing in an interview of his opponent, Kamala Harris. The case caused a major shakeup at CBS, and its owner, Paramount, agreed to settle with the president for $16 million.

Since then, Paramount has been purchased by Trump ally, Larry Ellison, but the president said the new arrangement is still displeasing to him. 

“My real problem with the show, however, wasn’t the low IQ traitor, it was that the new ownership of 60 Minutes, Paramount, would allow a show like this to air. THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP, who just paid me millions of Dollars for FAKE REPORTING about your favorite President, ME! Since they bought it, 60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE!” he wrote, adding that an apology from the show and Ms. Stahl is “far too late to be meaningful.” 

During the interview, Ms. Greene revealed that Mr. Trump’s remarks about her being a traitor led to death threats targeting both her and her son.

“The subject line for the direct death threats on my son was his words: ‘Marjorie Traitor Greene,’” she said.

After raising these threats with the administration, Ms. Greene stated that Vice President Vance told her he would “look into it.” She said that Mr. Trump’s response was not as kind.

The congresswoman said in her interview that many of colleagues do not have kind words for the president behind closed doors but started “kissing his a**” once he secured the GOP nomination in the 2024 primary. She said many “are terrified to step out of line and get a nasty Truth Social post” written about them by the president. 

“I watched many of my colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun of how he talks, making fun of me constantly for supporting him, to when he won the primary in 2024 they all started — excuse my language, Lesley — kissing his a** and decided to put on a MAGA hat for the first time,” the congresswoman said. 

In her wide-ranging airing of grievances, Ms. Greene, who is the sole Republican to vote to call the war in Gaza a “genocide,” said that she also voted against a recent resolution condemning anti-Semitism because she didn’t think Congress should “get on our knees” and bow to AIPAC.

“I’ve already voted denouncing antisemitism many times before. It’s become an exercise that they force on Congress and I simply got tired of it,” she said.

Conservatives have criticized Ms. Greene’s appearance on the news program, with MAGA backers viewing her as disloyal and attempting to deflect responsibility as she departs from Congress. Several said they also believe that CBS News only showed interest in interviewing her after she turned against Mr. Trump. “When @60Minutes is showing @mtgreenee respect you know she’s become a useful idiot for the left,” American Enterprise Institute fellow Marc Theissen said in a post on X.