Massie responds after Trump calls him a ‘moron’ during National Prayer Breakfast

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., responded with a joke Friday after President Donald Trump known as him an “fool” throughout a speech on the Nationwide Prayer Breakfast Thursday.

“I am glad to know I’m within the president’s prayers,” the lawmaker wrote in a textual content message to Fox Information Digital on Friday.

Whereas talking on the occasion on Thursday, Trump accused Massie of being “an computerized no” on measures supported by different Republicans within the Home of Representatives.

Trump stated there’s “one thing mistaken with him. We name him Rand Paul Jr.,” the president stated, referring to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., arrives for a vote within the Home of Representatives on the Authorities Reopening Funding Act on February 3, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photographs)

“They like to vote no,” Trump stated.

Massie defended his voting file on Thursday.

“The President of the USA known as me an fool this morning on the Nationwide Prayer Breakfast for nonetheless preventing for what he promised the American folks: minimize huge spending, DOGE, no new wars, finish international assist, defend 1A 2A 4A, proliferate, and expose intercourse traffickers,” the congressman wrote in a speech. message on X Thursday.

In a submit on his marketing campaign account, Massie, a staunch finances hawk, stated wrote“#FeelingBlessed,” together with the praying palms emoji, earlier than including, “Trump attacked me immediately on the Nationwide Prayer Breakfast. I vote with the Republican Social gathering in DC 91% of the time as a result of 9% of the time they bankrupt our nation, begin one other warfare, or cowl up for pedophiles.”

Trump is endorsing Ed Gallrein, a Republican Social gathering main challenger who’s operating towards Massie within the Bluegrass State’s 4th Congressional District.

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“Folks say Thomas Massie has turn out to be a liberal as a result of his new spouse, blessed be their marriage, is supposedly a radical leftist ‘flame thrower’. This new union all occurred so shortly that he could not have identified what he was entering into, however however he’s a completely horrible and unreliable ‘Republican’ – perhaps a RINO, or perhaps worse!” Trump claimed in a Reality Social after Monday.

Massie’s first spouse died in 2024 and he remarried in 2025.

“Ed Gallrein, a farmer and warfare hero, is operating towards Massie. He’s a HIGH QUALITY particular person, and there’s no candidate for Congress who could possibly be higher. He’s operating as a result of he realizes that Thomas Massie has been utterly disloyal to the President of the USA and the Republican Social gathering. He by no means votes for us, he at all times goes with the Democrats. Thomas Massie is an entire and complete catastrophe, we want to ensure he loses, BIG!” Trump added this within the message.

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Ed Gallrein and President Donald Trump (Ed Gallrein congressional marketing campaign)

Massie shot again in a single after on X.

“So now he’s attacking my spouse who voted for him thrice,” Massie wrote. “Possibly somebody advised him she’s the one who prompt we ask Pam Bondi in individual at a cocktail party after we would get section 2 of the Epstein information. Bondi stated there have been no extra information. As they are saying, the remaining is historical past.’