Michael Avenatti won't bring his anti-Trump rhetoric to Texas on Monday despite his promise last month to 'fight fire with fire' when the president visits Houston.

Two days after Trump announced that he would swing through the Lone Star State to stump for his former bitter rival Sen. Ted Cruz, the flamboyant lawyer said he would stage a counter-event somewhere in Texas.

Blaming a scheduling conflict, he told an NBC reporter on Sunday that he won't be coming.

A senior Republican aide on Capitol Hill who declined to be identified so he could speak freely said Monday: 'Bawk, bawk, bawk! It turns out "Basta" is Italian for "Never mind".'

Avenatti ends most of his tweets with 'Basta,' meaning 'Enough.'

Michael Avenatti pulled back from holding what he had promised would be a 'large resistance rally' on Monday while President Donald Trump visits Texas

Trump will speak Monday night in Houston to an estimated 100,000 people, including 19,000 inside a basketball arena and the rest watching on outside Jumbotrons in a tailgate-party atmosphere

Avenatti said Monday that his decision was unrelated to the prospect of suaring off against a pro-Trump crowd that the campaign sayd could number 100,000.

'Nonsense,' he told DailyMail.com in a text message.

He added: 'My decision was made far before any bogus claim of 100,000.'

Avenatti built a significant national profile last year by representing pornographic actress Stormy Daniels in legal actions against the president.

A federal judge dismissed one of his cases last week, saying Trump is entitled to recover his lawyer's fees from Daniels – specifically in texas.

And with Cruz leading his Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke handily in opinion polls, Avenatti appeared in recent weeks to be washing his hands of a political underdog there.

Avenatti's tweet on September 2 about staging a counter-rally went viral

He told an NBC reporter neary seven weeks later that he's not going to organize anything

He withdrew an online fundraising effort for O'Rourke on October 11 after conservatives claimed he steered much of the proceeds to his own super PAC.

Avenatti refused a day later to tell DailyMail.com how much he had raised or how much made it to the O'Rourke campaign.

He said Sunday that Monday 'is Beto's show because it's his race.'

That's a far cry from his September 2 tweet, in which he pledged 'a large resistance rally in Texas at the exact same time of Trump’s.'

He followup up a day later, tweeting: 'Many reporters have been asking whether we have a name for the Texas rally. In fact, we do. Here it is: “Don’t Mess With America.” See you in Texas.'

Fans of the president began lining up outside the Toyota Center in Houston a full 24 hours before his rally's scheduled start time.

The arena seats 19,000 people. More than 100,000 registered to attend through the Trump re-election campaign's website.

To accommodate the overflow, giant TV screens are being set up in the parking lot and the campaign announced Sunday that country music bands would play live outside as part of a giant tailgate party.