{"id":458000,"date":"2026-05-24T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/458000\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:37:10","slug":"thomas-massie-refuses-to-rule-out-presidential-run-in-2028-after-losing-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/458000\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Massie refuses to rule out presidential run in 2028 after losing primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

After losing his primary<\/a> to a Trump-backed challenger, Rep. Thomas Massie<\/a> is leaving the door open to a potential 2028 presidential run.<\/p>\n

Speaking Sunday on NBC\u2019s Meet the Press,<\/a> the Kentucky<\/a> Republican<\/a> said he is still weighing his political future after being defeated last week by former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, who was endorsed by Trump after the president repeatedly urged supporters to vote him out of office.<\/p>\n

When asked whether he was considering a run for the White House, Massie said, \u201cI will not rule out anything, and right now, I\u2019m not going to rule in anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery hour that passes, I get decompressed a little bit more,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s like coming up from the bottom of the ocean, and I\u2019ll take some time and decide what\u2019s next, but I think I will stay engaged in some way or shape. Maybe it\u2019s from the outside. I\u2019ve been exposing what\u2019s going on in Washington, D.C., for years, and I\u2019ll keep doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Massie also warned that the Republican Party could be \u201cvery vulnerable\u201d in the upcoming midterm elections over their loyalty to Trump.<\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/p>\n

Thomas Massie said Sunday that he is still weighing his political future after being defeated in his primary last week by a Trump-backed challenger (Getty)<\/p>\n

When asked whether Republicans were beginning to break with Trump, he responded: \u201cIt\u2019s true, you can take out Republicans in primaries, but Republicans are going to be very vulnerable this fall. They\u2019re worried about their own political mortality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Massie frequently broke with the Trump administration on issues including Iran policy, the so-called \u201cBig Beautiful Bill,\u201d and the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.<\/p>\n

He said Sunday that his split from the president was \u201cabsolutely worth it for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, I don’t think it’s going to be worth it for the party,\u201d Massie added.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, some people on the left have Trump Derangement Syndrome. They call it TDS. But there\u2019s a growing number of people on the right who have a form of TDS called Trump Disappointment Syndrome.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Trump<\/p>\n

Trump at the construction site of his proposed ballroom at the White House, a project Massie has criticized, calling it \u2018a slap in the face of Americans\u2019 (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

Massie also criticized Trump\u2019s focus on building a new White House ballroom, calling it \u201ca slap in the face of Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ballroom, I mean, that is such an egregious waste of money,\u201d Massie said.<\/p>\n

Trump has said the ballroom project would be funded through private donations, though Republicans recently sought to include $1 billion in taxpayer funding tied to security costs associated with construction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president was bragging on the Roman architecture, when in fact we\u2019re operating like a Roman Empire,\u201d Massie said. \u201cWe\u2019re overextended overseas with our foreign aid, with our foreign bases. We\u2019re spending money that we don\u2019t have, and the gasoline and rent and groceries are so high that people can\u2019t afford it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think it\u2019s dangerous to indulge in these things like a gold-plated ballroom in Washington, D.C., while Americans are suffering,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After losing his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, Rep. Thomas Massie is leaving the door open to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,86761,40,38,41,39,7421],"class_list":["post-458000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-thomas-massie","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}