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Donald Trump continues to troll Ron DeDSantis by claiming the Florida governor is being sent to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for an “emergency personality transplant”.
The former president took to Truth Social on Sunday night for his latest attack on the man believed to be his biggest Republican threat in the 2024 presidential race.
Calling him by his favourite nickname of “Ron DeSanctimonious”, Mr Trump once again took credit for “put[-ting]” Mr DeSantis in his current position as governor of Florida.
“The Globalist, China hawking and RINO infiltrated Club For No Growth, which now wants to give up backing Ron DeSanctimonious because they realize there is no personality or people skills there, are beside themselves, and just don’t know what to do,” he ranted.
“Florida has the Sun & the Ocean, and was GREAT long before I put Ron there. The semi-elite “No Growthers” are considering sending Ron to the great Walter Reed Medical Center for an emergency personality transplant. His poll numbers are crashing!”
Hours earlier, he had also lashed out at the Florida governor, repeating his often-made claim that he had “begged” for Mr Trump’s endorsement in the gubernatorial race.
“So why would a very disloyal Ron DeSanctimonious be considered even a good politician? He was DONE when he came to see me, losing badly to Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam by insurmountable numbers,” he said.
“Ron was performing poorly as a candidate, getting beaten at every turn, when he asked (begged!) me for my Endorsement, which I gave him. His then losing campaign immediately turned around, & he easily won the Republican Nomination. My Rallies then won him the General…THANKS PRESIDENT TRUMP!”
There’s been no love lost between the two former allies for quite some time – ever since Mr DeSantis emerged as the Republican favourite to take on Mr Trump in 2024.
Mr DeSantis is yet to announce his bid but began receiving support from the Republican party and conservative media in the immediate aftermath of the midterm elections, where many of Mr Trump-endorsed candidates failed to get the vote of the American people.
Despite the repeated attacks from Mr Trump since then, Mr DeSantis has largely avoided retaliating and engaging in a full-blown tit-for-tat with the former president.
Trump has made many attacks on DeSantis in recent months (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
However, when Mr Trump was arrested and charged with 34 felonies in New York in early April, Mr DeSantis took a thinly veiled jab at him.
When asked about the situation, Mr DeSantis retorted that he himself had no experience “paying hush money to a porn star”.
Then, last week a super PAC supporting Mr DeSantis released a television ad accusing Mr Trump of spending airtime and money attacking the Florida governor.
“Donald Trump is being attacked by a Democrat prosecutor in New York,” the ad said.
“So why is he spending millions attacking the Republican governor of Florida? Trump’s stealing pages from the Biden-Pelosi playbook.”
The latest spat comes as Mr Trump’s civil rape trial begins this week in New York.
Columnist E Jean Carroll has claimed that Mr Trump raped her in the dressing toom of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the 1990s. Jury selection begins on Tuesday in the case.
Meanwhile, the Florida governor is gearing up for a trip to Japan, South Korea, Israel and the UK this week as part of an international trade mission.
gdshaffe on April 24th, 2023 at 12:27 UTC »
On one hand you have Donald Trump, who bragged about having cut off his grand-nephew's medical funds out of a dispute with his nephew and niece, who bragged about walking into the dressing rooms of underage contestants at teen beauty pageants, who bragged that one thing he and his daughter have in common is "sex", whose reaction to 9/11 was "Now I have the tallest building in lower Manhattan", whose reaction to Princess Diana's death was "It's a shame because I never got to date her and could have totally nailed that", who is so fundamentally incapable of admitting he made even the tiniest mistake that he took a Sharpie to a weather map, who has called for the death penalty of the Central Park 5 even after DNA evidence proved their innocence, and who instigated a coup attempt upon having lost the 2020 election.
On the other hand you have Ron DeSantis, who while serving as a military lawyer was stationed at Guantanamo Bay and presented himself to the inmates there as a human rights attorney whose job was to ensure their humane treatment, then after listening to their complaints of the actions they felt were the most inhumane, turned around and presented them to the torturers as a playbook, and who is currently working toward a playbook toward the genocide of the LGBTQ community in Florida.
The idea that either one of them should be allowed anywhere near any position of political power is so far from comprehensible as to render one completely numb.
Shamcgui on April 24th, 2023 at 10:57 UTC »
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the mental maturity of the Republican party.
SouthofAkron on April 24th, 2023 at 10:57 UTC »
Trump calls DeSantis a China hawking globalist, that only got to be governor because of Trump. Not the own he thinks it is.