Pro-Trump PAC targets Massie in first ad

The pro-Trump PAC MAGA Kentucky rolled out its first ad targeting Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Friday, marking the first spot in a $1 million ad buy as the lawmaker feuds with President Trump.

The 30-second ad — titled “What happened to Thomas Massie?” — hits the GOP congressman over his opposition to Trump-supported legislation to fund border security and cut taxes, as well as his opposition to the president’s recent military intervention in Iran. 

“After Trump obliterated Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Massie sided with Democrats and the Ayatollah,” the ad’s narrator says, as an image of Massie flashes on screen with other images of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). 

Massie quickly responded to the ad in a post on the social platform X, appearing to refer to measures in Trump’s legislative agenda that the Senate parliamentarian opposed, including blocking Medicaid funds to be used for gender-affirming care. 

“The BBB now allows funding sex changes for minors!” Massie said, referring to Trump’s tax and spending bill. “This ad slams me for voting against the BBB, but the Senate just stripped the ‘ban on sex changes for minors’ from the BBB. By the ads’ twisted logic, those who support the Senate’s edits now support sex changes for minors.” 

The ad is one of the first major steps Trump’s political operation has taken in its effort to oust Massie from Congress. Earlier this week, Trump’s co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita launched MAGA Kentucky PAC amid Trump’s growing feud with Massie. 

“MAGA KY was formed for the specific purpose of firing Thomas Massie — his constituents will soon learn that he prefers the politics and policy of AOC and the radical left — over President Trump,” LaCivita told NewsNation.