President Donald Trump blasted a House Republican who criticized the U.S. military strike on Iran and announced plans to campaign “really hard” to oust him from Congress.

In a post on Truth Social Sunday, the president went after Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) for coming out against the attack.

“Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky is not MAGA, even though he likes to say he is,” Trump wrote. “Actually, MAGA doesn’t want him, doesn’t know him, and doesn’t respect him. He is a negative force who almost always Votes ‘NO,’ no matter how good something may be. He’s a simple minded ‘grandstander’ who thinks it’s good politics for Iran to have the highest level Nuclear weapon, while at the same time yelling ‘DEATH TO AMERICA’ at every chance they get.”

Immediately after the strike, Massie — in a post on X — denounced the attack as “not Constitutional.” In a Sunday morning interview on CBS’s Face the Nation, the Kentucky congressman went even further criticizing the president.

“It was a good week for the neocons in the military industrial complex who want war all the time,” Massie said. He added, “What happens when Israel gets bombed again? Is Trump going to sit by and say, no, we’re not going to further engage in this war?”

Trump made clear he plans to do everything in his power to see that Massie is defeated in the 2026 Republican primary.

“MAGA should drop this pathetic LOSER, Tom Massie, like the plague!” Trump wrote. “The good news is that we will have a wonderful American Patriot running against him in the Republican Primary, and I’ll be out in Kentucky campaigning really hard. MAGA is not about lazy, grandstanding, nonproductive politicians, of which Thomas Massie is definitely one.”

Ironically, just a short time before the lengthy message denouncing Massie, Trump waxed poetic about what he called “great unity” in the Republican party.

“Great unity in the Republican Party, perhaps unity like we have never seen before,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Now let’s get the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill done.”

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