Retiring RINO Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) is cashing in on his war with President Trump — and he is not even pretending to be polite about it.
According to ZeroHedge, citing Politico’s reporting, Tillis handed over screenshots of two profanity-laced texts he claims he sent President Donald Trump earlier this year. The messages are set to appear in his forthcoming memoir, How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents: The Trouble with Sycophants, Courage Outsourcing, and Partisan Groupthink, due out October 6.
On May 22, Tillis texted the president: “I still want to help but I don’t take this bull**** from anyone, including you Mr. President. Save that s*** for the cowards who don’t care if you fail. I care if you fail and right now we are failing.”
That message landed the same day Trump blasted Tillis on Truth Social as a “nitpicker” who was “always fighting against the Republican Party.”
Then, on June 6, Tillis went further, not by actually telling Trump off, but by bragging about what he would have said.
“As I have said before, you NEVER threatened me with a primary challenge. I get that you may have me confused with so many Republicans that you have threatened in the past, but NEVER me,” Tillis wrote on the text.
“If you had ever threatened me directly with a primary, I would have immediately told you to f*** yourself, and I would have announced my retirement immediately. Save those threats and head games for cowards and fools.”
The outgoing senator is selling the episode as courage. Voters in North Carolina already know the rest of the story.
And this is hardly the first time Tillis’s private frustration with Trump and the MAGA wing of the Republican Party has spilled into public view.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported in June, a leaked email from Tillis to his Republican Senate colleagues showed the retiring senator complaining about Trump’s continued push for the SAVE America Act and criticizing Senator Tommy Tuberville after Tuberville publicly called out Republicans who opposed the legislation.
In that email, Tillis argued that additional votes on the SAVE America Act created political problems for vulnerable Republican senators and criticized members of his own party for publicly attacking colleagues who opposed the measure.
The feud only grew from there.
In July, The Gateway Pundit reported that Tillis took to the Senate floor and vowed to use procedural tools to slow government business if another version of the SAVE America Act was advanced through reconciliation. Tillis argued that the election-related legislation could not realistically be implemented on the accelerated timetable being proposed.
Then in September, Tillis turned his fire on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The Gateway Pundit reported at the time that Tillis publicly urged Trump to replace Hegseth, accusing the Pentagon chief of mismanaging military leadership. Hegseth had originally been confirmed by the Senate in 2025 after Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote.
Trump, meanwhile, has made little attempt to hide his own hostility toward the retiring senator.
Following one dispute, Trump publicly called Tillis a “loser” and said the North Carolina Republican was angry because he would soon be leaving the Senate.
Now Americans are getting a look at what Tillis was saying privately.
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