By Molly Claire Goddard
4:11am PDT, Jun 13, 2025
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Prominent Republican Senator
Rand Paul is calling out
Donald Trump.
After the politician from Kentucky criticized the president's military parades and his support of the "Big, Beautiful Bill," he revealed that Trump disinvited him from the annual White House picnic in retaliation.
Keep reading to learn what Paul called the commander-in-chief over the diss…MORE:
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On Wednesday, June 11, Rand Paul strongly condemned Donald Trump for barring him from the White House picnic.
"The level of immaturity is beyond words," the conservative told reporters on Capitol Hill about
The Apprentice star, adding that the move was "just incredibly petty."
Paul pointed out that his refusal to back the "
Big, Beautiful Bill" Trump is touting is the main reason why he's being shut out. "I'm arguing from a true belief and worry that our country is mired in debt and getting worse," he explained. "And they choose to react by uninviting my grandson to the picnic. I don't know. I just think it really makes me lose a lot of respect I once had for Donald Trump. It's just, I think, a really sad day that this is the level of warfare they've stooped to."
The right-winger noted how he was unsure if Trump made the call or "petty staffers who have been running a sort of a paid influencer campaign against me for two weeks on Twitter."
Paul also added how he attended the event when both former Democratic presidents
Joe Biden and
Barack Obama were in office.
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Rand Paul additionally had a few choice words about Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
"You have people that are basically going around casually talking about getting rid of habeas corpus," the 62-year-old remarked. "And the same people that are directing this campaign are the same people that casually would throw out parts of the Constitution and suspend habeas corpus. So, I think what it tells is they don't like hearing me say stuff like that and so they want to quiet me down. And it hasn't worked, and so they're going to try to attack me."
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In another break with Donald Trump, Rand Paul slammed his decision to hold a $45 million
military parade in Washington, D.C. — which falls on the president's birthday.
"I've never been a big fan of goose-stepping soldiers in big tanks and missiles rolling down the street," Paul explained in a meeting with the press. "So, if you asked me, I wouldn't have done it. We were always different than the images you saw of the Soviet Union and North Korea. We were proud not to be that."
