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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., seemingly made light of President Donald Trump recently branding the maverick Republican congressman a “Rand Paul Jr.”
“In case you were wondering after five posts in ten days… I am NOT paying any rent to live there,” Massie wrote in a post on X that contained screenshots of multiple Truth Social posts in which Trump referred to the congressman as “Rand Paul Jr.,” a reference to the Republican U.S. senator from Kentucky.
Massie added the face with tears of joy emoji and joked, “BTW, the name is Ron Paul, Jr. — Rand and I were mixed up at the hospital.”
PATRIOT OR ‘PATHETIC RINO’? MAVERICK REPUBLICAN THOMAS MASSIE TRADES ‘AMERICA FIRST’ LABEL FOR ‘AMERICA ONLY’
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., leaves to speak with the media after the House voted 427-1 to approve the Epstein Files Transparency Act and the release of documents and files at the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 18, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a Massie ally who has said he will help the congressman win re-election, is the son of former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas.
Massie made the quip hours after Trump re-issued a broadside targeting both Massie and Paul. It was the same attack Trump made in a Truth Social post last month targeting the two lawmakers.
TRUMP CLAIMS GOP HAS ‘NEVER BEEN SO UNITED,’ CALLS GREENE AND OTHER REPUBLICANS ‘LOWLIFES’
Sen. Rand Paul, M.D., R-Ky., and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., answer questions and share stories during the Towing Industry and Mason County Forum held at Parc Cafe in Maysville, Kentucky, on Sept. 24, 2025. (Tasha Poullard/Lexington Herald-Leader/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
“Whatever happened to ‘Senator’ Rand Paul? He was never great, but he went really BAD! I got him elected, TWICE (in the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky!), but he just never votes positively for the Republican Party,” Trump declared in the post.
“He’s a nasty…
