The GOP congresswoman was painted in glowing terms during a broadcast on Russian state television on Sunday.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene, you’ve just shown is a beauty. She is one of a few members of the US Congress who is trying to look like a person in an old-fashioned sense of the word,” Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT, said of Greene.
“She is a blonde, who wears white coats with a fur collar. She is demonstratively heterosexual,” Simonyan continued.
Meanwhile in Russia: head of RT Margarita Simonyan praised Marjorie Taylor Greene as “a real beauty,” who wears white coats and furs. Simonyan asserted that only Russia can stop this war and it will do so only after Moscow achieves whatever it wants.https://t.co/GDoJnX539d
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) April 21, 2024
Simonyan lavished praise on Greene during an appearance on the Russia-1 talk show, “Evening With Vladimir Solovyov.” Greene, Simonyan said, had been treated unfairly by the US media.
“Who is Majorie Taylor Greene? She is a ‘conspiracy theorist.’ She has ‘extreme right views,'” Simonyan said, per verified translations by Russian Media Monitor. “As soon as a person says something that shows they are normal, America’s enormous media behemoth declares them a conspiracy theorist and a person of extreme right views.”
Representatives for Greene didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.
It is unsurprising that Russian media outlets favor Greene. The Georgia Republican has been a vocal critic of US aid to Ukraine.
Besides trying to delay a foreign aid bill to Ukraine, Greene also pushed for an amendment that called for lawmakers to enlist in Ukraine’s military if they voted for the aid package.
“If you want to fund the endless foreign wars, you should have to go fight them,” Greene wrote on X on April 18.
Greene also threatened to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson after he managed to pass the aid bill to Ukraine on Saturday. The move, Green said on Monday, was a “total betrayal of Republican voters.”
“Mike Johnson still hasn’t shown Congress or the American people the proof that Russia intends to invade the rest of Europe after finishing its campaign in Ukraine,” Greene said in an X post on Monday.
To be sure, Greene isn’t the only US politician that Russian media has lauded.
Back in 2022, Russian state television reporter Denis Davydov commended Rep. Matt Gaetz and Rep. Lauren Boebert’s behavior when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed Congress in December 2022. Gaetz and Boebert, Davydov said, were the “brave ones.”
“Congress members Gaetz and Boebert didn’t clap. They demonstratively remained seated and didn’t jump up. You can feel the fatigue in Washington over the boundless aid to Ukraine,” Davydov said of the two GOP politicians.
Russian state TV relies on Tucker Carlson, Josh Hawley, Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert to promote their talking points that America is sick and tired of supporting Ukraine. https://t.co/GNu7y2UTGn
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) December 25, 2022
The Russians, meanwhile, have managed to keep the war machine going and boosted their army’s size despite sustaining heavy losses while invading Ukraine.
Earlier this month, US Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli said in a House Armed Services Committee hearing that the Russian army “is actually now larger — by 15 percent.“
“Regardless of the outcome of the war in Ukraine, Russia will be larger, more lethal, and angrier with the West than when it invaded,” said Cavoli, who is also NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.
