‘Immaturity’: Rand Paul rips White House after being ‘uninvited’ from picnic
by Mychael Schnell - 06/11/25 7:56 PM ET
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) had harsh words for the White House on Wednesday after he said he was “uninvited” from its annual picnic, a snub that came amid the Kentucky Republican’s vocal opposition to President Trump’s tax cut and spending package.
Paul — who has criticized the debt limit provision in the “big, beautiful bill,” along with its impact on the deficit — said he had planned to attend the White House picnic on Thursday with his wife, son, daughter-in-law and 6-month-old grandson, but he was informed on Wednesday that he was no longer welcome.
“I’ve just been told that I’ve been uninvited from the picnic; I think I’m the first senator in the history of the United States to be uninvited to the White House picnic,” Paul told reporters. “The White House is owned by the taxpayers, we are all members of it, every Democrat will be invited, every Republican will be invited, but I will be the only one disallowed to come on the grounds of the White House.”
“I just find this incredibly petty,” he added. “I have been, I think nothing but polite to the president. I have been an intellectual opponent, a public policy opponent, and he’s chosen now to uninvite me from the picnic and to say my grandson can’t come to the picnic.”
Paul continued, saying “the level of immaturity is beyond words” before tearing into Trump himself.
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