Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene posed for a photo together in Costa Rica just days after a Trump-backed candidate took Massie’s Kentucky Congressional seat. 

Seven-term Republican Congressman Massie of Kentucky was handily defeated a week ago by Trump’s hand-picked challenger, Ed Gallrein.

Greene resigned this past December after Trump promised to back a primary challenger. Both have pressed the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files and have opposed Trump’s ‘excursion’ in Iran.

The two were spotted in Costa Rica Tuesday when they posed for a photo with their significant others.

Greene’s boyfriend, former broadcaster Brian Glenn, posted the photo of the three alongside Massie’s wife Carolyn Moffa to Instagram.

‘So I was just walking along the beach…’ he wrote, before tagging both Greene and Massie.   

The vacation comes just days after Massie announced he’d filed to run again in 2028, though he didn’t specify for what office, refusing to rule out a challenge for the presidency. 

He wrote Monday: ‘I filed with FEC for the 2028 House race. This allows me to raise funds to continue my political operations supporting my position as a current office holder and as a potential candidate for federal office. I haven’t made a final decision about which office to seek, if I run.’ 

Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene posed for a photo together in Costa Rica just days after a Trump-endorsed candidate took Massie’s Kentucky Congressional seat

Trump endorsed challenges to both lawmakers

It also comes a week after Massie became a lame duck due to his loss to Gallrein. 

Speaking to his supporters following his defeat, Massie to the crowd, ‘I would’ve come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv,’ jabbing at the fact that his challenger was being backed by millions from pro-Israel donors, despite them being US citizens.

Gallrein, a retired Navy Seal and farmer, was chosen by the President’s political operation to oust Massie after the incumbent relentlessly pushed for the release of the files surrounding the deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and bucked the President on his signature One Beautiful Bill tax legislation last summer. 

The race amounted to a continuation of Trump’s bitter revenge tour and underscores his unmatched power over the Republican party even as his personal popularity continues to dwindle during his second term. 

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, who voted to convict Trump after the January 6 Capitol riot, failed to even make his state’s GOP runoff.

More than $32 million flooded into the northern Kentucky race, with Trump and pro-Israel groups backing challenger Gallrein and blanketing the airwaves with attack ads against Massie, who was accustomed to cruising to re-election. The race was the most expensive House primary in history.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made an unusual last-minute trip to the district to endorse Gallrein, who largely kept his campaign away from media scrutiny. 

Trump himself unleashed a torrent of attacks in the final hours ahead of the election, calling Massie ‘a disloyal, ungracious, and sanctimonious FOOL,’ the ‘worst and most unreliable Republican Congressman in the history of our Country,’ and ‘a totally ineffective LOSER.’ 

Greene resigned this past December after Trump promised to back a primary challenger. Both have pressed the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files and have opposed Trump’s ‘excursion’ in Iran

Trump’s fury extended even to Representative Lauren Boebert, a deep MAGA loyalist who dared to campaign for Massie – prompting the president to call her ‘weak-minded’ and float a primary challenge against her.

Massie had attempted to hold onto his seat by showcasing Gallrein’s past animosity toward Trump. He’s presented voter registration cards he claims show Gallrein quit the GOP after Trump’s initial presidential win in 2016. 

‘I call them voter transition cards. He transitioned out of the party and stayed out for five years,’ Massie said at a GOP event back in March.

A Massie TV ad is also blasting Gallrein as ‘woke Eddie,’ who turned his back on the Trump movement.

But Massie’s personal charisma and incumbency couldn’t overcome the iron-fisted grip Trump holds over Republicans.

He faced a torrent of explosive personal allegations just as the race closed.

Cynthia West, a former Capitol Hill staffer who claims she had a brief romantic relationship with the congressman after the death of his wife, Rhonda, in 2024, said Massie used a secret ‘burner’ phone he jokingly called a ‘boner phone.’

She also claimed he boasted about a past fling with Boebert, even describing her as the ‘hottest woman in Congress.’ 

Neither Boebert nor Massie publicly addressed the allegation, though Boebert campaigned for Massie this past weekend ahead of his primary, as did several other Republicans, including Ohio Congressman Warren Davidson, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, and former Michigan Congressman Justin Amash.

Republican congressional candidate for Kentucky, Ed Gallrein, defeated Massie a week ago

West also accused Massie of attempting to silence her with a $5,000 hush-money offer, which Massie has denied. 

Loomer reacted to Massie’s defeat by targeting his longtime ally, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, writing on X, ‘Rand Paul, You’re next.’

Paul, who was at the White House Congressional Picnic instead of with Massie, did not answer questions from reporters about his defeat.

Trump’s former co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita posted a photo of Trump giving a middle finger with the caption, ‘Hey @MassieforKY …’

At his concession speech, Massie was showered with chants of ‘2028’, to which the congressman asked if the crowd wanted him to seek his current seat again.

Several voices yelled out, ‘No,’ and ‘President’ in response, sharing that they wanted him to run nationwide next cycle.

Current president Donald Trump has already claimed wins against Cassidy and a group of Indiana state senators who were ousted on May 5 after opposing his preferred plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts. 

On Tuesday, he claimed another, with his endorsement of Ken Paxton leading to a blowout defeat of four-term incumbent John Cornyn in Texas. 

Massie sits at a table alone in the studio ahead of a Kentucky Educational Television (KET) debate, Monday, May 4, 2026, in Lexington, Kentucky

Massie has a long history of antagonizing Trump, going back to his first term when they clashed over Covid-19.

Even when the frustrated former president denounced Massie in 2020, he never mobilized behind a primary opponent against him. 

In 2020 Massie skewered his primary challenger by 62 points.

Then Massie went all in against Trump, endorsing Ron DeSantis’ ill-fated campaign for president in 2023.  

What a difference a second Trump term makes.  

Kentucky’s Republican voters also selected Andy Barr as their nominee to replace former US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, another longtime Trump nemesis from Kentucky, who is retiring.