https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1243534445367492608Quote
Looks like a third rate Grandstander named @RepThomasMassie, a Congressman from, unfortunately, a truly GREAT State, Kentucky, wants to vote against the new Save Our Workers Bill in Congress. He just wants the publicity. He can’t stop it, only delay, which is both dangerous......
...& costly. Workers & small businesses need money now in order to survive. Virus wasn’t their fault. It is “HELL” dealing with the Dems, had to give up some stupid things in order to get the “big picture” done. 90% GREAT! WIN BACK HOUSE, but throw Massie out of Republican Party!
By empowering the Radical Left Democrats, do nothing Kentucky politician @RepThomasMassie is making their War on the 2nd Amendment more and more difficult to win (But don’t worry, we will win anyway!). He is a disaster for America, and for the Great State of Kentucky!
Trump is fucking merciless. He's out to make an example of anyone who breaks rank.
Massie is a hardcore libertarian ideologue, like an even farther Rand Paul, 100% tea party allegiance and routinely votes with democrats on bills opposing Trump's executive actions, but only as a horseshoe- he's the #1 most conservative libertarian in congress. A lot of 500-1 votes in congress with him being the 1. And he's generally avoided getting on Trump's bad side so far, even with votes against his immigration plan and many sets of sanctions. Massie even threw in loosely with the Trump bandwagon in 2018 to survive his primaries, focusing his messaging on haranguing the Crossfire Hurricane abuses since that aligned his anti-federal ideology with Trump supporters at the time. And even when he was opposing Trump's policies, he was desperate to appeal to Trump voters, like this tweet chain:
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1100448981421838337well shit Massie, you went one sovereign citizen moment too far. Trump is
not amused at him holding up the bill
The only thing left to see is whether Massie has any viable off-ramp to surrender and beg forgiveness and get Trump to endorse him again. Because there's no way he's getting reelected otherwise