President Trump’s feud with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) is showing no signs of abating as the president seeks to oust the GOP congressman for his history of regularly breaking with the administration.

Massie recently opposed the administration by denouncing its strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and refusing to support the president’s legislative agenda, leading Trump's political operation to launch a targeted campaign against Massie.

On Friday, a Trump-aligned super PAC, led by the president’s co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita, rolled out its first ad as part of a $1 million ad buy targeting Massie. The 30-second ad — titled “What happened to Thomas Massie?” — hit the GOP congressman over his opposition to Trump-supported legislation to fund border security and cut taxes. It also ties him to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).

But Massie isn’t backing down.

He hit back 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 what Trump calls the “big, beautiful 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.”

Earlier in the week, Massie invoked former Vice President Mike Pence being targeted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol after Vice President Vance questioned if his successors saw as much “excitement” as he has while in office.

The ad campaign is the first major sign the president’s political operation is flexing its........

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