This is characteristic of Trump. He effuses praise for those who praise him – as he did when Marjorie Taylor Green supported him. That effusing reverses the moment the formerly praised person steps even slightly out of line. Trump called MTG a "traitor" for publicly parting ways with his line about the Epstein Stuff being a "hoax" after Trump spent a lot of time urging his followers to believe it wasn't.

Now Trump is on Massie's ass – because Massie has dared to put America rather Trump – and the the Israeli state and its money-machine first. Here is what he posted on his Truth Social platform the other day:

People are saying that Thomas Massie became a Liberal because his new wife, blessed be their marriage, is supposedly a Radical Left "flamethrower." This new union all went so fast that maybe he didn't know what he was getting into but, nevertheless, he is an absolutely terrible and unreliable "Republican" — Perhaps a RINO, or maybe even worse! Ed Gallrein, a Farmer and War Hero, is running against Massie. He is a HIGH QUALITY individual, and there is no Candidate for Congress that could be better. He is running because he realizes Thomas Massie has been totally disloyal to the President of the United States, and the Republican Party. He never votes for us, he always goes with the Democrats. Thomas Massie is a Complete and Total Disaster, we must make sure he loses, BIG!

Where to begin?

Massie is a "liberal"?  This is like Trump's dogged insistence that the drugs he pushed "saved millions of lives."

The more audacious the lie, the harder it is for most people to believe it isn't one. Just ask OJ.

How about with the (again) gratuitous mocking of a political ally? A popular political ally? Why would he do that? It only serves to alienate Republican voters – as opposed to the dwindling number of die-hard Red Hats who support Trump because he's Trump, no matter what Trump does. Rudolph Hess articulated this at Nuremburg.

Ronald Reagan took the stance that someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time isn't your enemy. Trump's stand seems to be that anything less than 100 percent slavish support constitutes betrayal. This is Idi Amin/Joseph Stalin thinking. Total Orthodoxy is what's required to remain on Trump's good side.