Massie Hits Trump Where It Hurts on MSNBC — Compares Him Unfavorably to MAGA Punching Bag Bush
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) hit President Donald Trump where it hurts by taking their feud to MSNBC and unfavorably comparing him to a despised MAGA punching bag — former President George W. Bush.
Massie and Trump have been feuding over Massie’s opposition to Trump’s airstrikes on Iran — which Massie called “unconstitutional.”
On Monday night’s edition of MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, Massie roasted Trump in one of the worst ways imaginable, noting that President Bush — longtime villain to Trump and his supporters — at least asked Congress for authorization to strike Iraq:
CHRIS HAYES: Congressman Massie, let me start with you. I saw comments you just made a moment ago about the sort of substance of the resolution perhaps being mooted by a ceasefire, if there’s no active hostilities. So I just want to just — that — that seems possible, nothing happens, but I want to put that to the side for a second and then just ask about — I saw that quote we played in the intro about sort of representing this antiwar part of the coalition, the part of the coalition that did not want new foreign entanglements, did not want American bombs falling on new countries. And given that you’re the only co-sponsor of this resolution, do you feel like maybe you misread the coalition, maybe that wasn’t what people wanted, and — and things are different than you had sort of perceived?
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REP. THOMAS MASSIE (R-KY): Well, you know, I think the coalition still includes Tulsi Gabbard and JD Vance and Bobby Kennedy. But, of course, they can’t speak out. And a lot of my colleagues, Republican colleagues here in Congress, they’re afraid of AIPAC, who is playing in a lot of races recently. That’s the Israeli lobby here in Congress. And they’re also afraid of crossing our own president. So I found it frustratingly hard to gain co-sponsors for what should be constitutionally obvious, which is the president can’t engage in acts of war without authorization from Congress.
I mean, even George Bush got authorization for the first Iraq War, and then the second George Bush got authorization for the — for the second Iraq War. This shouldn’t be a hard concept to grasp, but apparently it is. And my hat’s off to Ro Khanna, who’s been consistent regardless of who the president is, whether it’s a Democrat or a Republican, for working with me across the aisle on issues like this.
Watch above via MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes.
