‘I Lost My Temper’: GOP Senator Describes Shouting Match With President Trump Over War Powers Vote

Four Republicans joined every Democrat in the Senate to cast a vote in favor of a war powers resolution aimed at strong-arming President Donald Trump into pulling out of Iran.

Even as negotiations were underway to end the military operation in the region, a handful of the president’s GOP detractors couldn’t resist ensuring that the largely symbolic measure sailed through the Senate after narrowly passing in the House.

And one of those individuals, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), opted to take a victory lap by denouncing

As The Hill reported, Cassidy later described what happened during a meeting after the vote:

Trump asked “why would anybody vote for the war powers” resolution, according to Cassidy, who later recounted his tense debate with the president.

“I stood and said, ‘Is that a rhetorical question or would you like to really know?’” Cassidy said.

When Trump said he really wanted to know why Cassidy and three other Republicans — Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) — voted with Democrats to attempt to curtail his authority as commander in chief, Cassidy stood up and ripped into Trump’s handling of the unpopular war.

“I stood and said, ‘You have not told the American people what’s going on. It was supposed to last four weeks, it’s lasted four months. Our original objectives have not been achieved and I want to know what’s going on,’” Cassidy said, recounting the heated back-and-forth.

Trump, infuriated over the Cassidy’s defiance in front of the entire Senate GOP conference, started yelling at the senator and Cassidy yelled back – matching the president’s tone and anger.

“He did not particularly care for my comments, raised his voice. I lost my temper, that’s not appropriate – it’s the Irish in me,” Cassidy said. “I matched his tone and his volume and it went back and forth.”

Cassidy said Trump then got personal, insulting him over his primary election loss.

“What does President Trump say? ‘Oh, you lost the election,’ that sort of thing, whatever comes to mind to demean another person,” Cassidy said.

Cassidy said he sat down at the urging of the senator next to him in an attempt to “de-escalate.”

News of the clash soon prompted some social media chatter:

Cassidy on what he said to Trump: "You have not told the American people what's going on. It was supposed to last for four weeks, it's lasted four months. Our original objectives have not been achieved. And I want to know what's going on. He did not particularly care for my… pic.twitter.com/3TnZAsDLR0

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 24, 2026

My president should have called him a lame duck and a has been irrelevant loser🤔

— 🥸 (@zc7867hhhd) June 24, 2026

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump did NOT hold back on Senate Republicans in his meeting

Trump spent "90%" of his lunch RAILING ON RINOs like Lisa Murkowski, Bill Cassidy, and Mitch McConnell, per Punchbowl

"I don't like a few people, but that's OK. I think you know who they are,"… pic.twitter.com/Hc9tFWKD4o

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 24, 2026

The New York Post had this to add:

“We had a really great meeting, and we’re very proud of the party. We like our leader. We like everybody. Really, in the room, we don’t like a few people, but that’s okay,” Trump told reporters afterward, refraining from naming names. “For the most part, we had a really well unified party.”

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), sarcastically told reporters the exchange was “very pleasant” before describing how Trump and Cassidy butted heads.

“Very much like a hospital board meeting when a bunch of doctors are yelling at each other, but at the end of the day, we’ll figure out a way to get along,” said Marshall, a practicing OB/GYN before entering politics. “Voices were raised. … I think the vote yesterday on the War Powers Act, the president’s very disappointed.”

Here’s some additional coverage:

CNN reports that Bill Cassidy lost his temper with Trump and "berated the president for what has transpired in Iran, for not being clear with Congress about his actions in the region" pic.twitter.com/4tq7GC3pU1

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 24, 2026

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