Trump gets Into Shouting Match with Sen. Bill Cassidy over Iran War in Closed-Door Meeting; ‘Cluster F*ck’: Trump’s Dramatic Feud With Senate Republicans Boils Over
By Fox News. President Trump and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) got into a shouting match during a lunch meeting Wednesday over the US war with Iran, according to sources and lawmakers who were in attendance.
GOP senators described Trump as being “mad as a murder hornet” and raising his voice at the Louisiana Republican for joining three other Republicans in a vote limiting his wartime authority.
Cassidy — who later quipped that the talks went “swimmingly” — called the president “my brother” several times during the heated exchange to lower tensions, Senate GOP sources said. The president spat back that Cassidy wasn’t his brother and told him to sit down, per CNN.
“[Trump] did not particularly care for my comments, raised his voice, I lost my temper,” Cassidy later recounted to reporters. “It’s the Irish in me.”
“But again I matched his tone and his volume, and it went back and forth,” he further explained. “So I sat down and tried to de-escalate. I guess my point is, though, that the American people need to know more than we are being told. The Senate needs to know.”
Cassidy lost his reelection to the Senate this year, when Trump backed his primary opponent in Louisiana. (Read more from “Trump gets Into Shouting Match with Sen. Bill Cassidy over Iran War in Closed-Door Meeting” HERE)
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‘Cluster F*ck’: Trump’s Dramatic Feud With Senate Republicans Boils Over
By Daily Caller. President Donald Trump’s highly anticipated appearance at the Senate Republicans’ weekly lunch took a turn for the worse, deepening the ideological fault lines between Congress and the White House.
Trump met with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and his Republican colleagues Wednesday to address disagreements on policies related to the Iran war and his flagship election integrity bill, known as the SAVE America Act.
These tensions reached a boiling point after Trump canceled the signing of a major bipartisan housing bill moments before the lunch was set to take place, in an attempt to further pressure the Senate to make progress on the SAVE America Act.
The lunch quickly escalated after Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy — who is serving his last term after Trump backed a successful primary challenger — unloaded on the president for the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. A person familiar with the conversations told the Caller that Cassidy “went nuts over Iran,” saying the two got into a shouting match.
Trump reportedly told Cassidy to sit down and called him a “lunatic” when he refused. Cassidy also referred to Trump as “brother,” leading Trump to push back and say he wasn’t his “brother.”
.@POTUS arrives for lunch with the @SenateGOP on Capitol Hill.
PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT! pic.twitter.com/5vUn2vmUbJ
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 24, 2026
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