Donald Trump is now openly feuding with House Republicans as things unravel for him

| 9:00 pm EST December 19, 2024
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“The very unpopular ‘Congressman’ from Texas, Chip Roy, is getting in the way, as usual, of having yet another Great Republican Victory – All for the sake of some cheap publicity for himself.” This sounds like a sentence I’d write – though I’d probably just stick with “unpopular” – or it sounds like something you’d probably see from some #Resist social media account – but it’s actually a post from the president-elect.

That’s right: Donald Trump himself posted it on his Truth Social page – going after Roy because he refused to raise the debt limit and tagged Trump’s account on Twitter when his office announced it.

Despite Trump’s threats to have him primaried, Roy still refuses to raise the debt limit, which is not a good sign for Trump going into this fight. It means Roy’s not particularly afraid of a challenger and more importantly, that he’s well aware how poorly a shutdown will look for Trump in trying to push it, which takes away any leverage he has.

These are two clowns that deserve each other – and it shows that Republicans are absolutely awful at putting up a united front, the exact thing they’ll need to fake if they have any hope of wrecking the country as rapidly as they hope to.