{"id":18926,"date":"2026-02-12T19:16:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-continues-to-lash-out-at-rino-gop-gov-kevin-stitt\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:16:40","slug":"trump-continues-to-lash-out-at-rino-gop-gov-kevin-stitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-continues-to-lash-out-at-rino-gop-gov-kevin-stitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump continues to lash out at \u2018RINO\u2019 GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump on Thursday continued to personally attack Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt over a debacle regarding the upcoming annual governors\u2019 weekend in Washington.<\/p>\n

“We will soon have a Governor in Oklahoma who knows how to accurately write a Press Release to the Public, in this case, to state that I invited, not happily, almost all Democrat Governors to the Governor\u2019s Dinner at the White House,\u201d Trump wrote in a Thursday Truth Social post. \u201cStitt, a wiseguy, knew this, but tried to get some cheap publicity by stating otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s latest criticism against the Republican comes after Stitt, who serves as chair of the National Governors Association, became embroiled in a back-and-forth over whether Democrats would be invited to the routinely bipartisan governors event. Stitt at one point announced that a bipartisan business meeting with the president would be removed from the NGA\u2019s agenda for the weekend because the White House said Democrats would be excluded from the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After a conversation with Trump, Stitt informed governors on Wednesday that all governors would be invited to the meeting, attributing the dispute to a \u201cmisunderstanding in scheduling,\u201d according to a letter viewed by Blue Light News.<\/p>\n

But that wasn\u2019t enough to salve the president\u2019s displeasure: In a Wednesday afternoon social media post \u2014 after Democrats had begun receiving invitations to the meeting \u2014 Trump took to Truth Social<\/a> to lament that \u201cas usual with him, Stitt got it WRONG!\u201d<\/p>\n

All governors were welcome at the event, Trump wrote, except two Democrats: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore \u2014 the latter of whom had already received a formal invitation to the meeting at the time of the post, according to a person familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

In the Thursday morning post, Trump took credit for Stitt\u2019s victory in his last race for governor, writing that the Republican \u201cwas massively behind his Opponent in his previous Election for Governor\u201d and \u201ccalled me to ask for help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump added: \u201cI Endorsed him (Barely!), and he won his Race,\u201d but the president eagerly anticipated the arrival of the governor\u2019s successor. Stitt is term-limited and cannot seek another term when his current one expires in 2027.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Stitt\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and a spokesperson for the NGA declined to comment on the post.<\/p>\n

Stitt\u2019s position atop the NGA has put him at odds with the president on at least one other occasion, when the Oklahoma Republican broke with his party<\/a> to criticize the administration\u2019s cross-state National Guard deployments last year.<\/p>\n

The dispute regarding the upcoming NGA weekend has reignited tensions within the association, with 18 Democratic governors vowing to boycott a bipartisan dinner<\/a> over the White House\u2019s handling of the invitations.<\/p>\n

With regard to the event, Trump wrote Thursday: \u201cI\u2019ll see whoever shows up at the White House, the fewer the better!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump on Thursday continued to personally attack Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt over a debacle regarding the upcoming annual governors\u2019 weekend in Washington. “We will soon have a Governor in Oklahoma who knows how to accurately write a Press Release to the Public, in this case, to state that I invited, not happily, almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}