The Trump-affiliated Kentucky MAGA super PAC has unleashed its first round of attacks on GOP contrarian Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) after the lawmaker vehemently opposed the president's weekend strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.
President Donald Trump's team was cobbling together the organization in the days before Massie joined with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) to introduce a war powers resolution to prevent Trump from acting on his own against Iran, Axios reported Sunday. Trump ordered the strikes Saturday, before Congress could consider the resolution.
Massie, a deficit hawk who wears a "ticking debt clock" on his lapel, is also standing firm against Trump's megabill that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated would add more than $2.7 trillion to the deficit between 2025 and 2034.
Trump has called Massie a "grandstander" and vowed to back a primary challenger in next year's midterm elections.
Kentucky MAGA, which is headed by senior Trump advisers Tony Fabrizio and Chris LaCivita, released its first anti-Massie attack ad Friday that Newsmax reported will air on Fox News and broadcast TV stations in the Cincinnati and Louisville markets.
The ad opens with the question, "What happened to Thomas Massie?" then lists the ways the Kentucky Republican has defied Trump on a variety of issues.
"President Trump is banning sex changes on minors; Massie voted against it," the voiceover said while showing a split screen of Massie and a drag queen. "President Trump is cutting taxes and saving Kentucky families $10,000; Massie voted against it. President Trump is securing our border and deporting criminal aliens; Massie voted against Trump again. And after Trump obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons program, Massie sided with Democrats and the Ayatollah."
The ad superimposes Massie next to Iran's supreme leader, as well as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
"Let's fire Thomas Massie," the ad concludes.
Massie responded to the ad on social media, writing, "The BBB now allows funding sex changes for minors! This ad slams me for voting against the BBB, but the Senate just stripped the 'ban on sex changes for minors' from the BBB. By the ads’ twisted logic, those who support the Senate’s edits now support sex changes for minors."
