Donald Trump Thinks He's a “RINO” Hunter

Yet another lovely AI image post by the president

By: Austin Abbring

May 28, 2026

A few days ago, Donald Trump produced yet another grotesque AI-generated image of himself over a dead rhino while brandishing a long rifle with the text “NO RINOS”. For those not familiar with a “RINO”, it is a derogatory term and acronym meaning “Republican In Name Only”. This suggests that any Republican who goes against the party line, works with or votes with Democrats too often, and is not productive enough to the conservative movement is a “RINO”. Donald Trump is clearly referencing the defeat of Thomas Massie in his recent race against Trump-backed Ed Gallrein for Kentucky’s 4th congressional district. This is truly laughable as Thomas Massie, again not someone I am a fan of by any regard, has voted with Republicans over 80% of the time. I suppose joining a Democrat in creating the Epstein Transparency Act to actively hold accountable the pedophiles escaping justice and voting against the insane and illegal war in Iran is too much for Republicans to handle nowadays.

Being able to deviate from your party and achieve productive, inclusive, important, landmark legislation by voting in a bipartisan manner should be the bare minimum we expect of our elected officials. Our legislators work for us and are elected by us. If the opposite party can introduce legislation that makes clear sense and is genuinely productive for large swaths of the American populace, one should obviously put country over party. Some recent examples of Republicans who have been deemed “RINO’s” are those who voted in favor of Trump’s second impeachment following his insurrection attempt, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Respect for Marriage Act, both introduced and passed by the Biden administration, and even John McCain’s heroic “thumbs down” on repealing the Affordable Care Act. At that time, he was the deciding vote on the Senate floor.

Recognizing and holding Trump accountable for attempting to overthrow the United States government is acceptable. Supporting a historic infrastructure bill is acceptable. Protecting the sanctity of marriage in all forms is acceptable. Voting to keep the Affordable Care Act alive (before the Big Beautiful Disaster of 2025) while your party has no replacement healthcare legislation to instill is acceptable. These votes from Republican Senate and House members do not deserve the “RINO” label. This is a sensible, bare-minimum action by legislators. This should be the norm from both parties if we are ever going to combat the private interest groups seriously and the lobbyists who control a large majority of our representatives, who do the exact opposite of that - accurately represent working-class Americans.

The ultimate irony is that Donald Trump is the biggest “RINO” in the Republican Party right now. I mean this in the sense that he is the biggest gift the Democrats could ever have received for the upcoming midterms and, most likely, the next election. If Democrats find a way to avoid snatching defeat from the jaws of victory again. Trump and Republicans are underwater on just about every single key issue. Trump is hovering around 55-60% disapproval. Democrats are winning special elections left and right, often by large margins. Even when Democrats are losing elections, they are making up immense ground. Some of these Trump/Republican +25, +20, +17, +10 districts are now in single digits, mostly under +5. I mean, Democrats have been winning races in states such as Florida, South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, and even Idaho! Republicans are rightfully concerned about their seats come November. This Trump presidency is going to take years for the Republican Party to recover from.

This should not be surprising, as even a sizable chunk of independents who Trump and the Republican Party once again duped are recognizing they are getting quite literally nothing out of this administration. Independent voters decide elections, and Trump is only netting around 25-30% approval amongst them. This has been a disaster, and I think it is going to be a sort of punishment election in the midterms and 2028. I know the Republican Party will continue to run their culture war, reactionary, fringe issue politics, and many voters will fall for it again in the future, but not after they (Republicans) get their clocks cleaned for the next handful of years. Trust me, I am not naive enough to believe my fellow Americans will never vote for Trump-esque candidates again. However, his die-hard, drive-off-a-cliff 30% base is not going to be nearly enough for whoever the Republicans throw out for November 2026 and in 2028.