Rep. Lauren Boebert appeared to be making peace with President Donald Trump this week after finding herself in his crosshairs over her support for ousted Rep. Thomas Massie.
Just days after Trump publicly threatened to yank his endorsement and potentially back a primary challenger against her, Boebert was back on social media loudly reaffirming her loyalty.
“Trump is my President! Jesus is Lord!” she posted Tuesday night.
The timing raised eyebrows.
Boebert’s declaration came only hours after Massie — one of Trump’s most outspoken Republican critics in Congress — was defeated in Kentucky’s high-profile GOP primary by Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein.
For many Republicans watching the race, the message was hard to miss: crossing Trump can carry a political price.
The blowup started after Boebert traveled to Kentucky to campaign for Massie, a libertarian-leaning conservative who has repeatedly broken with Trump and Republican leadership on spending battles, surveillance issues, foreign policy fights, and the push to release files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Trump did not take kindly to seeing one of his longtime congressional allies standing shoulder-to-shoulder with one of his most frequent internal critics.
“Anybody who can be that dumb deserves a good Primary fight!” Trump wrote over the weekend, before raising the possibility of pulling his own support for Boebert if the “right person” entered the race against her.
For a politician long viewed as one of Trump’s fiercest defenders on Capitol Hill, it was a rare public dressing-down.
Boebert initially tried to shrug off the clash.
“Yes, I saw the President’s post. No, I’m not mad or offended,” she wrote after Trump’s comments. “I knew the risks when I agreed to stand by my friend Thomas Massie.”
But after Massie’s defeat, Boebert’s latest message sounded less like defiance and more like a quick political reset.
The dust-up highlights a reality becoming increasingly clear inside today’s GOP: policy disagreements may come and go, but Trump’s influence over Republican primaries remains a force few lawmakers seem eager to test.
Massie’s defeat already is being viewed by many inside Republican circles as another reminder that even longtime conservatives with strong grassroots support can face serious trouble when Trump decides to make a race personal.
Boebert appears to have gotten that message.
And she didn’t wait long to send one back.
She deserves a good spanking! 😏
That may be true, but she HAS done a lot of good in the past.
But she seems to have picked the wrong person to be friends with.
Her friendship with Massie appears to have overcome her ‘common sense of logic’ about what Massie has said about the only democracy in the near east, and the only country in that part of the world that we can usually trust to do what is right!
Is Israel perfect? Are we?
It is a good idea to pick what is the best stance for freedom and democracy in the world.
NO country is always totally correct … no country has ever been that way.
We will have to wait for ‘The Day of The Lord’ for that!
We must always pick what and who is the best for freedom and security from any form of terrorism!
We have to pick the person who is best to support that hope and effort!
Friendship should never get in the way of that!
She made a mistake, I believe. But she IS one of the best people in our government.