The Massie representative says he feels “induced” by Trump after Iran strikes

EXCLUSIVE: Representative Thomas Massie accuses President Donald Trump of not having failed his promises on Saturday evening on Iran.

“I feel a little misleading,” Massie told Fox News Digital in an interview on Sunday afternoon. “I didn’t think he would let the neocons determine his foreign policy and train in another war.”

“The others feel the same thing, which supported Trump – I think that the political danger for him is that he induces a certain degree of apathy at the republican base, and they do not show up to keep us in the majority in mid -term.”

Massie, a conservative libertarian who has long been wary of foreign intervention in the United States, was one of the most vocal criticisms of the Trump administration’s recent operation.

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Representative Thomas Massie said he was looking for means to force a vote on his resolution of war powers. (Win McNamee / Pool / AFP via Getty Images; Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)

The American stealth bombers struck three major nuclear enrichment facilities in Iran on Saturday evening.

Trump and other GOP leaders praised the operation as a victory, while even the pro-Israeli democrats also rare praise.

“Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities were completely and completely erased,” Trump said on Saturday evening. “And Iran, the Middle East intimidator, must now make peace. If they do not do so, future attacks would be much larger and much easier.”

But the progressives and the growing isolaist wing of the GOP exploded it as an unnecessary climbing of tensions in the Middle East, at a time when Israel is also engaged in a week-long conflict with Iran.

The senior officials in Trump himself said that the United States did not seek war with Iran.

Vice-president JD Vance told NBC News to “meet the press” Sunday, “we are not at war with Iran. We are at war with the Iranian nuclear program.”

Massie told Fox News Digital that these insurances were “ridiculous”.

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“He is engaged in war. We are now co-belligerent in a hot war between two countries,” said the Kentucky Republican, arguing that the conflict separates this action from Trump strikes who killed the deceased Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.

“You cannot say that it is not an act of war, that it is a strike outside a war,” he said. “It is inside, geographically and temporally, of a war.”

The Kentucky Republican has notably broken Trump several times and was one of the few GOP officials to compete openly with the President – in particular on public spending and foreign intervention.

President Donald Trump spoke to the nation after strikes on June 21, 2025. (Pool)

He co-directs a resolution to prevent the “armed forces of the United States from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran” alongside the representative Ro Khanna, D-Calif., Which they introduced a few days before the strikes. Senator Tim Kaine, D-VA., Led a counterpart from the Senate.

Massie noted that her team was looking for ways to obtain resolution on the room floor – while conceding a probable opposition from pro -Israeli groups and Congress leaders.

“We will try to use the privileges of the house to achieve it on the ground,” he said.

“People said,” Why did you presented this resolution? The president is not going to strike Iran. “He hit Iran.

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Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, said at a Sunday morning press conference that the administration had correctly informed the strike congress within the existing statutes – even if the progressives and certain conservatives accuse him of bypassing a branch of co -equal government.

“They were informed after the aircraft released,” said Hegseth. “We have respected the notification requirements of the Act on War Powers.”

But Massie noted that this law also obliges the congress to vote on American military intervention in foreign countries within 60 days, if the conflict continues.

“Even if they are able to bypass a vote on the resolution that Ro Khanna and I have presented, we will have to vote at some point if it becomes a long commitment,” he said.

The resolutions of war powers can be called for a vote of the House after 15 days of inaction by the committee concerned, after the reference to the legislation to this committee.

When he was contacted to comment, the White House pointed out Fox News Digital to Trump’s last social article of Trump calling Massie a “gallery” and threatening to recruit a main challenger against him.

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“The member of the Kentucky Thomas Massie Congress is not Maga, even if he likes to say that he is,” wrote Trump. “In fact, Maga does not want it, does not know it and does not respect it. It is a negative force which votes almost always” no “, no matter how good something can be.”

“Maga should drop this pathetic loser, Tom Massie, like the plague! The good news is that we will have a wonderful American patriot against him in the republican primary, and I will be in Kentucky which is very hard campaign. Maga is not a lazy, grandeur, the incredible soldier for the incredible work they are really black.”

Fox News Digital also contacted President Mike Johnson’s office to comment.