President Donald Trump predicted Rep. Thomas Massie is "history" come primary season. (Win McNamee/pool/AFP via Getty Images; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Trump spoke to the media after landing back in the nation's capital following a short trip to the Florida Everglades to tour a new illegal immigrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." The Senate passed the "big, beautiful bill" while Trump was speaking at a roundtable at the detention center.
Trump had rallied Republican lawmakers to pass the budget reconciliation bill since his inauguration, celebrating that it will advance his agenda on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and the national debt. The vast majority of Republican lawmakers voted in support of various versions of the bill, while a handful of Republicans such as Massie, Paul, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis and Maine Sen. Susan Collins rejected supporting the legislation's passage.
Massie, specifically, bucked supporting the legislation when it was in the House earlier in 2025 by citing it would add $20 trillion of federal debt over 10 years.
MUSK AGREES WITH MASSIE THAT BILL IS 'DEBT BOMB TICKING' AND 'MISSED OPPORTUNITY' FOR CONSERVATIVES
President Trump talks to the media about former ally Elon Musk outside of the White House. (Getty Images)
"Anyone who campaigned on the PROMISE of REDUCING SPENDING , but continues to vote on the BIGGEST DEBT ceiling increase in HISTORY will see their face on this poster in the primary next year," Musk posted to X Monday evening.
The message was accompanied by an image of Pinocchio sitting on fire and the caption, "LIAR Voted to increase America's DEBT by 5,000,000,000.00"
Musk added in an X post that he plans to support Massie's re-election campaign.
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Trump added in his remarks from Air Force One that he does not "think about" Massie when asked if he's trying to make an example of the lawmaker.
"I don't think about him," Trump said. "When I oppose somebody, I oppose somebody. And for some reason, the voters almost always seem to go along with me because they know I'm working hard. I have a nice high IQ. They like that. They like high-IQ people, but they know I make good decisions."
Massie's office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment on Trump's remarks.
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