Elon Musk may have only said “Me,” but the timing and context of his latest post suggest he’s picking sides… again.

In the early hours of July 1, Musk posted a screenshot of a digital thank-you note apparently sent by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to an X user who had captioned the image: “I donated again to @RepThomasMassie’s re-election campaign. Who’s next?” Musk’s terse reply — “Me” — quickly went viral and appeared to signal his support for Massie just as the congressman faces an all-out assault from President Donald Trump’s political operation.

The post marks the latest twist in a messy and increasingly personal fallout between Trump and Musk, one that has escalated over Trump’s signature domestic legislation and spilled into Kentucky’s 2026 primary.

On June 28, Musk had lashed out at the nearly 1,000-page bill and its package of tax cuts, domestic spending, and regulatory rewrites, arguing that it would kneecap emerging industries.

Musk, who until May advised Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been openly hostile to the “One Big Beautiful Bill” by Trump and previously called it “pork-filled” and a “disgusting abomination.”

On June 30, he went a step further, threatening to launch the “America Party” if the bill becomes law.

 

“Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame! And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth,” Musk stated in another post that same day.

The posts placed him in clear alignment with Massie, one of just two House Republicans to vote against the bill, and who has long drawn Trump’s ire. Trump and his allies have launched a super PAC, Kentucky MAGA, with the sole goal of unseating Massie in the upcoming primary, the Associated Press reported.

“Massie is weak, ineffective, and votes ‘NO’ on virtually everything put before him,” Trump posted on Truth Social recently. “MAGA should drop this pathetic LOSER, Tom Massie, like the plague!”

Massie has faced similar fire. When Trump denounced him in 2020 as a “third rate Grandstander” for opposing a COVID-19 relief package, Massie still cruised to victory in the primary. By 2022, Trump had reversed course, endorsing him as a “first-rate Defender of the Constitution.”

Now the pendulum has swung again, with Trump vowing to personally campaign in Kentucky against the libertarian-leaning incumbent. The President’s operatives have already begun recruiting challengers and promise to spend “whatever it takes.”

Massie is holding firm. “I suspect the President isn’t doing this out of spite for me, but instead to intimidate my colleagues into rubber stamping his actions,” he told the AP in a statement on June 30. “He knows me well enough to know he’s not changing my mind with these threats.”