Screenshot of the video “MTG” by Forgiato Blow – Photo: YouTube.
For a woman to be a successful politician, she must not know what a gun is, but know how to fire one; must glow in the dark, but in a totally nonradioactive way; and, simply put, must be Beyoncé — this we know from a popular 2019New Yorker article.
Two election cycles in the House of Representatives since that piece was published, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, has shown the nation another rite of passage for female officeholders: Star in a rap music video.
“I never thought I’d be featured in a rap video but then again I never thought the left would be grooming our children!” wrote Greene in a July 16 Instagram post.
The Republican congresswoman and self-proclaimed “Christian nationalist” from Georgia, who previously called for the end of Pride Month, appears in the video for rapper Forgiato Blow’s song “MTG,” which is laden with anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and references to right-wing conspiracy theories.
The video begins with an inflammatory quote from Greene’s 60 Minutes interview in April: “Even Joe Biden the President himself supports children being sexualized and having transgender surgeries. Sexualizing children is what pedophiles do to children.”
In the video, rapper Forgiato Blow, the self-crowned “Mayor of MAGAville,” while dropping rhymes and spouting blatant falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election, crowns Greene, who sits in a gold-winged throne and wears sunglasses at night, “MAGA’s MVP.”
“Most rap videos exploit women, glorify drugs and violence, but Forgiato Blow’s new video is about calling out the left’s grooming agenda and protecting our children from genital mutilation,” Greene said in a statement. “It was a blast filming this video.”
“I’m proud of Forgiato Blow’s support of my Protect Children’s Innocence Act,” she added, referring to a bill she sponsored to prohibit trans and gender-expansive children from accessing gender-affirming care. The bill would prosecute and sentence doctors found guilty of prescribing such treatments to up to 25 years in prison, and would ban medical schools from teaching about gender-affirming treatments — thereby ensuring that transgender people, including trans adults, will be unable to receive transition-related treatments in the future.
While Greene, promoting the song, tweeted, “Protecting our children has to be our number one priority,” it remains unclear how this legislation would accomplish that goal, given that gender-affirming care is supported by all major medical organizations and linked to dramatic reductions in depression and suicide attempts during adolescence and beyond.
Protecting our children has to be our number one priority.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 16, 2023
Blow’s past songs, many shared by Greene on social media, have mocked the toll of the AIDS epidemic (“fake news already spreading disease, like two queers with HIV”) and opposed companies like Bud Light and Target for their collaborations with LGBTQ content creators and designers.
Greene has a colorful history of attacking the queer community, including calling LGBTQ-inclusive school curricula “child abuse,” and claiming that people who support allowing same-sex couples to wed “don’t love God.”
Ten people are on trial in France, accused of engaging in sexist online harassment of First Lady Brigitte Macron by spreading false and malicious claims about her.
The posts alleged that the French president's wife is transgender and was born male under the name Jean-Michel Trogneux -- the name of her older brother. Some also equated the 25-year age gap between the 72-year-old first lady and her 47-year-old husband to "pedophilia," according to Agence France-Presse.
The Macrons first met in 1993, when Brigitte was a 39-year-old married teacher at Lycée La Providence in Amiens and Emmanuel Macron was her 15-year-old student -- and a classmate of her daughter. (The age of consent in France is 15.) They reconnected years later after Macron graduated from Lycée Henri-IV in Paris and married in 2007.
Reports that the person who fatally shot conservative activist Charlie Kirk had left behind bullet casings engraved with phrases espousing "transgender ideology" have been debunked.
The rumor spread quickly after conservative commentator Steven Crowder posted to X on the morning of September 11 -- the day after the shooting -- claiming he had received an email from a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives officer describing such engravings.
Crowder shared what he said was an email from an ATF officer claiming investigators had recovered the weapon used in Kirk's killing, with one spent cartridge in the chamber and three rounds still in the magazine. The email further alleged the cartridges were engraved with "transgender and anti-fascist ideology."
President Donald Trump has commuted the 87-month prison sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), the openly gay congressman who pleaded guilty in August 2024 to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By commuting his sentence, Trump allows the 37-year-old former congressman to walk free and resume his life. Before his imprisonment, Santos had been earning money on Cameo, charging up to $350 for personalized video messages -- from birthday greetings to shout-outs for special occasions.
Elected in 2022 amid a Republican "wave" in New York, the one-term congressman admitted to deceiving donors and stealing the identities of nearly a dozen people -- including relatives -- to fund his campaign.
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