President Trump’s political operation has launched an aggressive effort to unseat Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, its first such effort to defeat a sitting Republican incumbent, Axios reports. Trump’s $500 million political apparatus is the most powerful, well-funded force in American politics—and gives Trump a weapon with which to target any lawmaker who crosses him. Trump’s team has launched Kentucky MAGA, a Super PAC devoted to defeating Massie in the May 2026 primary.
Axios writes that Massie has attacked Trump over his strike on Iran, saying on X that it was “not Constitutional,” prompting the president to fire back on Truth Social that the congressman is “not MAGA.” He also called Massie “weak, ineffective” and “disrespectful to our great military, and all that they stand for.” He seems to have forgotten that he attacked the foreign wars in his election campaign.
Massie also voted against Trump’s “big beautiful bill” last month, one of only two Republicans to oppose it. Trump then called for him to be “voted out of office.”
