President Donald Trump has clashed with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), on several fronts, from the Epstein files release to spending policies. Now, Trump is unloading on Massie over the Congressman’s lack of support for the military action in Iran.
In a Truth Social post filled with weird punctuation and misspellings, Trump attacked the Kentucky Congressman, who is one of the few current Republicans in Washington who has been unafraid to cross the president, and has not announced plans to quit Congress.
“I predict that “Representative” Thomas Massie will go down as the WORST Republican Congressman in the long and fabled history of the United States Congress, even worse than Crazy Liz Chaney, Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger, and Marjorie “Traitor” Brown (Remember, Green turns to Brown under stress!),” Trump wrote. “They are all misfits and losers, but Massie, who is running against a great American Patriot in the Kentucky Primary, will hopefully lose BIG. I LOVE KENTUCKY!!! President DJT”
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In the post, Trump misspelled former Rep. Liz Cheney’s name, while also continuing his so-far-unsuccessful effort to give Marjorie Taylor Greene the nickname “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown (Remember, Green turns to Brown under stress!).”
Trump has endorsed Ed Gallrein, a primary challenger to Massie, and is heading to Kentucky to campaign for him. At one point last year, Trump mocked Massie for remarrying, less than two years after the passing of his first wife.
Per the Daily Beast, “Massie has proven a near-constant thorn in Trump’s side during the president’s second stint in the White House. He has vocally opposed the war in Iran, launched by Trump on February 28, arguing “the only winners in [the U.S.] are defense company shareholders” and asserting the president “can’t even give us a straight answer” as to why he started the conflict.”
“People support Trump, but they also support what he campaigned on,” Massie told NBC News this week. “When people support me, they’re supporting the things that Trump campaigned on actually getting done.”
Per The Hill, “the Kentucky primary, slated for May 19, is being closely watched as a gauge of Trump’s continued grip on the GOP at a time when he’s facing low approval ratings, a tough midterm cycle when he’s not on the ballot, and internal accusations that he’s abandoned the ‘America First’ pledge that swept him back into office.”
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