Trump completed his revenge tour. Allies wonder what it cost.

Photo: President Donald J. Trump boards Air Force One at Beijing Capital International Airport, China on Friday, May 15, 2025, en route to Washington, D.C. Photo credit: Official White House photo by Daniel Torok via Flickr. US government work. Article by Adam Wren, Dasha Burns and Samuel Benson. Politico – May 20, 2026.

President Donald Trump has finally delivered on his promise a decade ago: He has made Republicans “so sick and tired of winning.” The winning — a series of retributive primary challenges this month that settled scores up to five years old — has led to a fresh round of chest-thumping from MAGA allies boasting about their victories in Indiana, Louisiana and Kentucky. Trump ended his vendetta spring Tuesday by dropping a two-stage MAGA bomb, backing Attorney General Ken Paxton for Senate in Texas on the same day he ushered Rep. Thomas Massie to the exits in Kentucky. But the revenge tour is increasingly imperiling Trump’s midterm agenda on the Hill. […]

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