Raleigh, NC — The feud between retiring Republican Sen. Thom Tillis and President Donald Trump escalated again this weekend after a senior White House official attacked Tillis over profanity-filled private texts he sent to the president earlier this year.
Politico previously obtained two messages that Tillis plans to include in his forthcoming book, How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents. In one May text, Tillis told Trump he would not tolerate his “bullshit” and said the administration was failing. A June message said that if Trump had directly threatened him with a primary challenge, Tillis would have told the president to “fuck yourself” and immediately announced his retirement.
Responding to the disclosures, an unidentified senior White House official told Politico that sending the messages rather than confronting Trump personally was a “pussy move” and questioned Tillis’s character.
The exchange reflects how badly the relationship between Trump and Tillis has deteriorated. The North Carolina senator has increasingly criticized Trump and other administration figures while preparing to leave Congress.
Tillis has also argued that too many Republicans are unwilling to challenge Trump publicly, while the president has repeatedly attacked lawmakers who resist his agenda. The newly disclosed messages provide a particularly blunt glimpse of that internal Republican conflict.
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