Trump threatens to back challenger to fellow Republican Boebert after she campaigns for Massie

Reuters ^ | 5/15/2026 | David Morgan

[usafa92]

WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump threatened a primary challenge on ​Saturday for hardline conservative Representative Lauren Boebert, until now ‌a staunch Trump ally, after she campaigned for maverick Representative Thomas Massie in his Kentucky district.

"Boebert is campaigning for the Worst 'Republican' Congressman ​in the History of our Country, Thomas Massie, of ​the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, and anybody who can ⁠be that dumb deserves a good Primary fight!" Trump ​wrote on Truth Social.

Boebert, a Colorado congresswoman, responded with a ​post on X: "Yes, I saw the President’s post. No, I’m not mad or offended. I knew the risks when I agreed to stand by ​my friend Thomas Massie. I was, and will be, ​America First, America Always, and MAGA."

[usafa92]

Another day, another tweet by Trump attacking somebody for not being sufficiently loyal. I don’t like Massie, I hope he loses, but Trump continues to diminish himself when he acts like this. The Colorado primary election is June 30, ballot access is closed to new candidates and ballots are being mailed next week, nobody is running against Boebert and nobody will mount a write-in campaign. So, like 99% of Trump tweets, actually nothing will happen.

[george76]

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)

[FamiliarFace]

So who is the Democrat she’ll be facing?

[vivenne]

We need Boebert on our side. This is not helpful.

[delchiante]

Pick a target
Freeze the target
Personalize the target
Polarize the target

President and Commander in Chief Trump uses these rules for radicals.

And has for awhile.

Some may feel like they have to pick sides.

And his side has revealed a ton of schiffheads, even with R next to their names, since coming down an escalator.

[MileHi]

Sheesh...

[lastchance]

Trump’s ego leaves no room for pragmatism.

[Pappy Smear]

I'm really getting sick of Trump's dumba$$ery.

Massie is a heck of a Congressman, and this would be a better country with 435 of him in Congress. Then Trump endorses people like Lindsey Graham. Just stop.

[FamiliarFace]

Prediction, Lauren Boebert follows in the footsteps of MTG, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, etc, and finds a new revenue stream that arises from going against DJT. Massie has the same support. I have no evidence, but this is a gut feeling. Time will tell if I’m wrong or I’m right.

[proust]

I wonder what Lindsay Graham has on him. When Graham ran for president he got 0%.

[roving]

Massie fails us every time something important comes up.

[ReformedBeckite]

Well when Boebert and Massie campaign and says they are going to do something and when they get elected they do the opposite the people do have the legal ability and right to recall them. I know it is rarely done, if it has been done at all, but it is the duty of the people to get rid of politicians that don’t do what you elected them to do.

[delchiante]

Bullschiff.

On Massie’s watch we got ‘they spied on my campaign ‘, two hoax impeachments, Wuhan Coup flu stolen election and targeted lawfare.

535+ there during any of those rail cars added to the long train of abuses and usurpations, are lucky they aren’t being hanged in alphabetical order for being coup co-conspirators.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We need Boebert on our side. This is not helpful.

Trump is not the same man who came down the Trump Tower escalator in 2015. He's 80 years old now.

He would have been the old Trump in his second term had 2020 not been stolen from him.

[Reily]

Graham doesn’t have anything on Trump. You think Graham found something didn’t use it in the past, didn’t trade to the Ratters for something. Unfortunately what Graham has is clout in the Senate. Thanks to the convoluted incumbent protection jungle primary South Carolina has baked into its election system its virtually impossible to find a real effective MAGA challenger. Trump has to work with what’s there - Graham!

[cableguymn]

if she was on our side she would not have made the endorsement.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

She's a loose canon with too many stray hormones.

And I hate the smell of estrogen in the morning.

[Nextrush]

The circular firing squad and a waste of money voices have told us in the past do they keep saying the same thing this time around.

President Trump is my president, not my God not a pope with infallibility.

[UnwashedPeasant]

She showed her true colors.

[Karl Spooner]

There's something about those last batch of unreleased Epstein files that Trump doesn't like. Two and a half million of them according to reports.

Epstein files