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The Philip DeFranco Show

Trump vs Massie Exposes Why Trump Is Screwed in November

The Philip DeFranco Show

philip defranco

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🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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To be honest, one of the most important things today is that tomorrow is a big day. You've got elections, primary elections, and there may be no primary election more important to Donald Trump and in general than the one that's taking place in Kentucky.

0:52.3

More money has been spent on this race than any other House primary in history. And it'll likely be the best test yet over whether Trump's hold over the Republican Party remains absolutely solid, despite his overall approval rating, hitting a second term low. So of course, I'm talking about the election to determine whether Representative Thomas Massey, a man that Trump has described as a pathetic loser, a sick wacko, and a moron wins the Republican nomination for Kentucky's 4th District.

1:12.6

Because really, whoever wins his primary, they're gonna win re-election come November since the district is so solidly red. So if Massey wins, he gets to continue being essentially a radical Republican, which means that he breaks from the president on things like releasing the Epstein files. files. Because Massey and a handful of Republicans, including former representative Marjorie Taylor Green,

1:28.5

committed the sin of wanting to get those files out, even though that was a thing that the Trump coalition campaigned on. But of course, if Massey loses, it's going to be one less Republican in office willing to stand up to the president on certain key issues. And with that, of course, we have to mention that Massey is definitely not the first targeted Trump's campaign to eradicate dissent within the party. And we've seen things like

1:44.0

Trump helped unseat Republican state lawmakers in Indiana, who he blamed for foiling his redistricting push there last year. And just this last weekend, he took credit for the primary defeat of Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, who's been on Trump's bad side ever since voting to convict the president in 2021 at his impeachment trial. In fact, Trump actually personally recruited and backed Cassidy's main challenger, Congresswoman

2:01.0

Julia Letlow, who won about 45% of the vote. Also, that only tells part of the story because notably another candidate, a former Trump administration official who also campaigned on loyalty to the president, they also finished ahead of Cassidy with around 28% of the vote. To one, Cassidy's hopes for the election just shattered and it was an embarrassing defeat, and two, since neither one an outright majority,

2:18.7

the two top finishers now have to advance to a runoff.

2:21.0

But as far as Cassidy's defeat, you had Trump celebrating on social media saying, Cassidy's disloyalty to the man who got him elected is now a part of legend, and it's nice to see that his political career is over. Without a doubt, even just based on his most recent posts, Thomas Massey is kind of the next domino in Donald Trump's size.

2:36.3

In his latest of many posts insulting Massey, you had Trump describing him as the worst congressman in the long and storied history of the Republican Party. He called him an obstructionist and a fool. And that, coming less than a day from a separate post, calling him a weak and pathetic rhino and a totally ineffective loser. But then also in that post, you had Trump praising Massey's challenger, a guy by the name of Ed Galrine. He's a former Navy SEAL. He's a fifth generation farmer who had only run for public office once before, losing to a guy by the name of Aaron Reid, who actually is also a former Navy SEAL as well as a gun store owner and was actually Trump's first choice to run against Massey, but Reid decided against it. Right, and while he also vowed to stay neutral at a respect, he has not stayed silent. Saying about Galrine in one interview, he has the personality of Iraq, saying, I don't think anybody's going to vote for Ed Galrine, they'll either vote for Massey or against Massey. And that's actually an assessment that was shared by Massey himself, who told NBC News this week, people aren't going to be voting for me or voting for him on election day. They're going to be voting for me or voting against me. That actually might be an opinion that Trump shares because he previously suggested that all he needed to run against Massey was someone with a pulse. So Trump's also said that with Ed, he got more. And I got somebody with a warm body, but a big, beautiful brain and a great patriot.

3:41.9

He's unbelievable.

3:43.1

Really, Gowrind's like most important qualification, at least in Trump's view, is his just unflinching loyalty. Well, you have Massey, you know, arguing that this is a negative, claiming, you know, his opponent would be a little more than a yes man to the president. Gowrines pushed back on that idea. I guess I should have gotten five bronze stars to demonstrate my personal courage and independence to act on my own.

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