{"id":73656,"date":"2026-05-17T13:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/trump-attacks-massie-as-republican-critic-describes-desperate-attempts-to-oust-him-from-primary\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:55:40","slug":"trump-attacks-massie-as-republican-critic-describes-desperate-attempts-to-oust-him-from-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/trump-attacks-massie-as-republican-critic-describes-desperate-attempts-to-oust-him-from-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump attacks Massie as Republican critic describes \u2018desperate\u2019 attempts to oust him from primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president writes \u2018vote the bum out\u2019 as congressman faces close race against Trump-endorsed Republican<\/p>\n<p>With two days to go before the next big test of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s iron grip over his party, the president went head-to-head on Sunday with his nemesis, Thomas Massie the Kentucky congressman who is in a fight for his political life in Tuesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republican<\/a> primary.<\/p>\n<p>Over an eight-hour period starting in the early hours of Sunday, Trump took to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/trump-late-night-social-media-posts\">bully pulpit<\/a> on Truth Social to taunt Massie, one of very few senior Republicans who has dared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/09\/howard-lutnick-thomas-massie-resign-epstein-files\">to<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/16\/trump-epstein-files-republican\">defy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/27\/kentucky-republican-thomas-massie-trump-epstein-files\">him<\/a>. Massie is the \u201cworst and most unreliable Republican Congressman in the history of our Country\u201d, the rant began, followed by a mid-morning exhortation to Kentucky voters to \u201cvote the bum out on Tuesday\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/17\/trump-thomas-massie-primary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president writes \u2018vote the bum out\u2019 as congressman faces close race against Trump-endorsed Republican With two days to go before the next big test of Donald Trump\u2019s iron grip over his party, the president went head-to-head on Sunday with his nemesis, Thomas Massie the Kentucky congressman who is in a fight for his political &#8230; <a title=\"Trump attacks Massie as Republican critic describes \u2018desperate\u2019 attempts to oust him from primary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/trump-attacks-massie-as-republican-critic-describes-desperate-attempts-to-oust-him-from-primary\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump attacks Massie as Republican critic describes \u2018desperate\u2019 attempts to oust him from primary\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}