MAGA has spent the last week insisting that Donald Trump is not a king. In fact, they could disagree with him anytime they wanted to, but why would they ever do that when he’s so obviously right about everything! Cast iron logic.
Well, that is now being sorely put to the test as the “America First” isolationists react with horror to Trump breaking his election promise and dragging the United States into yet another pointless and bloody war in the Middle East. Marjorie Taylor Greene is currently frantically trying to square this circle, but now Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie is proving just what happens when you displease Dear Leader.
Massie is an outspoken libertarian and has made a name by voting against bills other Republicans have supported en masse. In the days since Israel attacked Iran, Massie has been trying his best to stop the United States from being involved, including cosponsoring a war powers resolution preventing Trump from engaging in “unauthorized hostilities” and saying on social media that the strikes over the weekend were “not constitutional”.
This is not Constitutional. https://t.co/EU3fS5jcwb
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) June 21, 2025
Now, Trump is demanding Massie’s scalp for his disobedience. In a (very) lengthy rant on TruthSocial, Trump dismissed Massie as a “grandstander”, “weak”, “ineffective”, “disrespectful”, a “LOSER”, and said he wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon. Trump wrapped things up by saying he’ll have a handpicked MAGA drone running against him in the Republican primary and vowing to personally campaign against him.
Massie strikes back
Massie shot back with a flippant response that Trump “declared so much War on me today it should require an Act of Congress”:
.@realDonaldTrump declared so much War on me today it should require an Act of Congress. #sassywithmassie pic.twitter.com/ZrMiIKcAxu
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) June 23, 2025
We already knew that Trump is petty and vindictive, and that he won’t tolerate any disobedience from the Republican party. Every Republican senator and congressperson knows that Trump can make or break their careers, with Massie now proof of what happens if you decide to make a stand against Trump.
THOMAS MASSIE EXPOSES AIPAC:
— ADAM (@AdameMedia) June 22, 2025
“AIPAC is very persuasive. If you look at my colleagues' feeds now, they all look the same, they're all tweeting the same message.”
He’s 100% right.
pic.twitter.com/UR379MwD7o
If Massie is doomed, he’s not going down without a fight. In a fairly jaw-droppingly honest move for a Republican, Massie took aim at Israeli lobbying group AIPAC, pointing out that “somebody was persuasive” in twisting Republicans’ arms into supporting Israel. He even said that “If you look at my colleagues’ feeds now, they all look the same, they’re all tweeting the same message.”
Explicitly calling out AIPAC is an act of political suicide, as they can and will pour money into primarying you out of a job. With Trump now vowing to destroy him and AIPAC gearing up to take him down, it’ll be telling what happens to him over the next few months. Nothing good, that’s for sure.
