Trump Cussed Out Susan Collins Last Week – Now She's Looking at the Brutal Demise of Her Senate Career
Collins joined Democrats on a war-powers vote and faced criticism from Trump as she campaigns for reelection.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYRedState is an opinion-first, politically aligned outlet, and this piece relies partly on reporting attributed to The Hill and other RedState articles. The named author and attributed quotations provide some transparency, but the article offers little independent sourcing or counterpoint.
- Source type — Opinion-first outlet with a strong partisan orientation.
- Transparency — Some claims and quotations are attributed to The Hill and other RedState reporting.
- Author attribution — A named author is identified.
- Editorial standards — The piece uses openly evaluative language and offers limited independent verification or opposing perspectives.
The article attributes key claims to other reporting and quotes a Senate Republican and Collins, but it provides little direct evidence, context about the resolution, or response from Trump or the Democratic candidates. Its strongly evaluative framing also limits its reporting quality.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article is an explicitly opinionated account with little source diversity. It quotes Collins briefly and relays an account from a Republican senator, but provides no response from Trump or the Democratic candidates and uses strongly loaded descriptions.
- Source diversity — The main outside account comes from an unnamed Senate Republican, alongside a brief Collins remark.
- Counterarguments presented — No substantive response from Trump or the Democratic candidates is presented.
- Loaded language — The headline and article use emphatic, evaluative descriptions.
- Opinion vs reporting — The piece is an opinion article and includes the author’s judgments about the candidates and the election.
The article uses a conservative, pro-Republican framing, particularly in its negative characterizations of the Democratic candidates and its emphasis on Collins’s political vulnerability. Its criticism of Trump’s treatment of Collins does not offset the broader partisan framing.
- Language tone — Uses loaded phrases such as “brutal demise,” “abandoned their party,” and “world of hurt.”
- Framing — Frames Democratic candidates with disparaging descriptions and presents the race through a conservative partisan lens.
- Source selection — Relies on a Senate Republican and cited conservative coverage, with little opposing perspective.
- Headline — The headline foregrounds Trump’s confrontation and predicts a “Brutal Demise” for Collins’s career.
RedState says President Donald Trump angrily confronted Sen. Susan Collins after she joined Democrats in a Senate vote on a Venezuela war-powers resolution. The article argues that Trump’s criticism could complicate Collins’s reelection campaign.
RedState reports that Collins was among five Republican senators who voted with Democrats on a war-powers resolution concerning future U.S. military action in Venezuela. The article says Trump criticized the senators on Truth Social and later called Collins; a Senate Republican described the call to The Hill as a “profanity-laced rant.” Collins said Trump was unhappy with the vote but declined to comment further.
The article describes Collins as vulnerable in her reelection campaign and says she is the only one of the five senators facing an election in 2026. It suggests that a lack of support from Trump could hurt her, while noting that Democrats are choosing between Janet Mills and Graham Platner as their candidate.
Community verdict
11 VOTESCounts every outlet’s report of this story. See all 17
- Readers of left-leaning coverage: not enough votes yet
- Readers of right-leaning coverage: 56% good look
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Votes cast on this page: ▲ 5 · ◆ 2 · ▼ 4
People in this story
SWIPE →Senator whose vote on the Venezuela war-powers resolution drew criticism from Trump
President who criticized Collins and called her after the Senate vote
Trump's version of this story ↗Senator who voted with Democrats on the resolution
Senator who voted with Democrats on the resolution
Senator who put forward the war-powers resolution
Senator who voted with Democrats on the resolution
Democratic Senate candidate mentioned as a possible opponent to Collins
White House chief of staff whose interview is cited on Trump’s campaigning plans
Maine governor and Senate candidate mentioned as a possible Democratic opponent
Senator who voted with Democrats on the resolution
Part of a bigger story
14 OUTLETSCollins backed a Senate resolution requiring congressional approval for further military action in Venezuela, and Trump criticized her after the vote. Left-leaning outlets foreground a reported angry call as a story about Trump’s hostility toward Collins. Center outlets recount the vote and Trump’s response, with some examining the reported call and Collins’s reelection prospects. Right-leaning outlets emphasize the break with Trump over war powers, while some stress the potential electoral cost of his criticism.
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- OUTLETS
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- AVG CRED
- 60
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- RadarOnline · Donald Trump Explodes in Profanity-Laced Phone Call to Susan Collins
- Attack of the Fanboy · Trump was so angry about one vote he threatened a GOP senator's re-election, then realized she doesn't have an opponent
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