Speaking at an event in Hebron, Kentucky’s Verst Logistics, President Donald Trump laid into Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) with a vengeance, taking the opportunity to spend minute after minute demolishing Rep. Massie while simultaneously praising Massie’s primary challenger, Navy SEAL veteran Ed Gallrein.
Further, the president, whose main issue with Rep. Massie is that the representative has proven a thorn in his administration’s side while also failing to support important immigration bills, slammed the Senate for having a “hard time” in passing the SAVE America Act. That came when the president was in Kentucky for the campaign event on Thursday, March 12.
During the event, Breitbart News noted, President Trump laid into Rep. Massie with a vengeance, calling him “the worst person,” and noting that the representative had remained implacably opposed to the One Big Beautiful Bill, with all its funding for ICE and Border Patrol, along with all of the tax cuts it brought Americans.
Commenting on what Rep. Massie’s vote against the Big Beautiful Bill entailed, President Trump declared, “Massie voted against tax cuts for seniors, he voted against tax cuts for overtime workers, and he voted against tax cuts for earners; tip earners, no. He wanted to increase the taxes. He voted with the Democrats.”
Further, the president noted that the representative had, in his staunch opposition to the bill, been opposed to Border Security. The president said, “He voted against border security, where we took the worst border in the history of our country, made it the best border in the history of our country in two and a half months… and he voted against eligibility verification for welfare recipients.”
Adding to that, the president joked that the perpetual pain of a congressman is even worse than Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), as Rand is at least somewhat likable, quite unlike Massie. He said, “We call him Rand Paul Jr. He votes against everything. But at least I like Rand a little bit.”
Still not done, the president declared that Massie must be primaried out of office because he is disloyal to the GOP, the country, and his constituents. The president began, “We got to get rid of this loser. This guy is bad.” He added, “He’s disloyal to the Republican Party. He’s disloyal to the people of Kentucky. And most importantly, he is disloyal to the United States of America.”
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Massie, for his part, said, “The first few days they the war was popular, but then, as we saw gasoline and diesel prices go up, people started to talk about, you know, ‘what are the goals?’ ‘How long is this going to go on?'” He added, “the public sentiment among Republicans will turn against it.”
He then said, “What we’re seeing in Kentucky is farmers are getting ready to plant crops, and they’ve got to purchase their fertilize. They have held off on that, hoping the price would go down, and now the price is skyrocketing on fertilizer. We’re going to see the price of delivering food go up. So there’s going to be a triple whammy here.”