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Trump's Revenge Tour Could Backfire

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What A Day

News, Daily News

4.612.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A swath of President Donald Trump’s handpicked candidates won their primary elections Tuesday night – and one of Trump's biggest opponents in Congress, Kentucky Republican Representative Thomas Massie, lost. It was the continuation of Trump’s weeks-long revenge tour against Republicans he views as disloyal. So, for more about what we learned from Tuesday’s primaries, we spoke with Alex Wagner. She’s the host of Crooked Media’s Runaway Country.

And in headlines, President Donald Trump gives a commencement speech to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s graduates, the so-called Board of Peace needs money, and the Department of Justice announces charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro as the Trump administration escalates pressure on the island.

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0:00.0

It's Thursday, May 21st. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day, the show that thanks Utah Republican Representative Blake Moore for just saying it out loud on Wednesday.

0:13.2

Our Republican priority will always be to be putting government ahead of Americans.

0:17.7

Was this what he meant? Probably not. Is this true? Also, yes.

0:29.9

On today's show, the Department of Justice announced his charges against former Cuban president

0:34.1

Raul Castro. And President Donald Trump's so-called Board of Peace is apparently having a

0:38.8

hard time with funding. I wonder why. But let's start with Tuesday's very mega primaries. It was a good

0:46.2

evening to be Trump, as a swath of his hand-picked candidates won their primary elections, and one of

0:51.2

his biggest opponents in Congress, Kentucky Republican representative

0:54.4

Thomas Massey, lost. Tuesday night was a culmination of Trump's revenge tour against Republicans

1:00.5

he viewed as disloyal, like the Indiana Republicans who opposed his demands to redraw congressional

1:05.5

maps, or Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, who voted to convict him for inciting

1:10.6

the January 6th insurrection.

1:12.4

And Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger, who resisted Trump's request to, quote,

1:17.4

find votes to overturn President Joe Biden's 2020 victory.

1:22.2

Almost all of these politicians lost to Trump endorsed candidates.

1:26.8

So yes, this is indeed Trump's Republican Party.

1:30.1

But there are a few problems with that.

1:32.8

Problems that they are going to have to deal with very soon.

1:36.6

For one, Massey is still in office and now has few reasons to support Trump on pretty much

1:42.6

anything.

1:43.7

Here he is speaking during his concession speech on

1:46.0

Tuesday. I got to watch Fox also for the first time in 18 months. And there was the president

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