Chip Roy and Donald Trump Are on a Collision Course

Afew weeks after the presidential election, Rep. Chip Roy headed to Mar-a-Lago to make peace.

Roy was a rare House conservative who opposed efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Congress. After the Jan. 6 attack, he argued that Donald Trump had engaged in “clearly impeachable conduct.” Then the fiery Texas conservative hitched his wagon to the wrong horse in the 2024 primaries, backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

But now that Trump was president-elect, it was time to make nice.

Over the course of an hour, Roy and Trump engaged in what one Trump insider described as a “reset.” They talked about Trump’s agenda, Roy’s fight with cancer and their shared love of golf. Trump ribbed him over his poor political judgment in supporting DeSantis, and later, with the two standing in front of a crowd, Trump jokingly called Roy “a nasty son of a bitch.”