Trump Coalition Tested in Kentucky Vote
The future viability of the Trump coalition is on the line when votes are cast on May 19 to choose the nominee in the Republican primary in the 4th Congressional District of Kentucky. The incumbent is Thomas Massie, who was first elected to Congress as a traditional conservative Republican in 2012. Massie had been a loyal Trump supporter during the President’s first term, committed to the idea behind Trump’s MAGA Movement (Make America Great Again). MAGA opposed the Permanent Wars supported by Presidents of both parties, arguing that the procession of wars served no American interests, thus wasting taxpayer’s dollars and American lives. Trump campaigned in 2016 and again in 2024 as an antiwar candidate.
But that changed in his second term, with Trump continuing to provide weapons and money to Ukraine and Israel. Massie objected to this change, as did an increasing proportion of Trump supporters, leading a drive against the wars underway. While Trump made some minimal efforts to cut off Ukraine, he not only increased the funds and weapons flow to Israel, but became a partner of Greater Israel war criminal Netanyahu in launching a war against Iran, in violation of the War Powers Act, which required Congressional approval to engage in war.
Massie not only objected to Trump’s support for the Zionist extremist ethnic cleansing in Gaza, but to the Zionist Lobby which provided funds, weapons and political cover to the Greater Israel fanatics. Massie joined with Democrat Ro Khanna to challenge the funding of war.
More threatening to the pro-war American Zionists was their campaign to expose the role of the Trump Justice Department in covering up the penetration of “Epstein Class” operatives in the defense, security and intelligence agencies. The introduction by Massie and Khanna of the Epstein Transparency bill, along with his opposition to Trump’s “Big Beautiful [Budget] Bill,” and his battle to expose the corrupting influence of the Zionist Lobby/American Israel Public Affairs Committee, provoked Trump to recruit an opponent to defeat Massie in the primary election.
Trump announced his choice in October 2025 of former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein to defeat Massie. And the money flowed in to defeat Massie at record levels, led by three Zionist billionaires—Miriam Edelson, Paul Singer, and John Paulson—whose MAGA Kentucky PAC provided Gallrein’s campaign with more than $15.5 million from Zionist donors. Yet even with this cash flow, polls show that there is a divide in the Trump base, and the dividing line is the role of the Zionist Lobby in backing Trump’s war. Massie escalated the fight, by introducing a bill which would force AIPAC to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which would identify those attacking Massie and other anti-war candidates as agents of a foreign power. Over the weekend, an additional $3 million was contributed by the Zionists to the Gallrein campaign, leading Massie to say that this is a sign of desperation, which has been fed by the failure of Trump to deliver any of the goals he identified as the object of his and Netanyahu’s war against Iran.
In his continuing commitment to the losing war against Iran, his reliance on anti-MAGA neocons to defeat the MAGA antiwar forces in the Republican Party, and his defense of the Special Relationship praised by his recent guest of honor, the Malthusian City of London Monarch King Charles III, Trump is orchestrating the demise of his presidency, while increasing the danger of a nuclear World War III. That is why the vote in Kentucky’s 4th CD is being watched so closely.
