President Donald Trump is unhappy with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) for impeding short-term spending plans, vowing to “lead the charge against him” in a Republican primary and even likening the Kentucky lawmaker to former Rep. Liz Cheney “before her historic, record breaking fall (loss!)”
“The people of Kentucky won’t stand for it, just watch,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. The president also called Massie a “third rate Grandstander” and said the GOP should “throw Massie out of the Republican Party!”
Actually, those last two Trump quotes about Massie come from 2020, when the Kentuckian bucked the White House by pressing for a recorded vote on a COVID-19 emergency spending bill. The legislation ultimately passed. “[Trump’s] bill signing happened right on time,” Massie told me at the time.
Trump didn’t actually end up endorsing Massie’s primary opponent…
