Trump and DeSantis

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Former President Donald  Trump is reacting to news of Ron DeSantis’s impending presidential bid as you may expect: with relentless assaults on social media.

News broke the day before today that the Florida governor would formally announce his long-anticipated bid for the White Home in a Twitter Areas interview ostensibly brokered via Elon Musk. This has led to some just right-natured laughter by means of the less tech-savvy set of your conventional professional-Republican media shops.

And so Trump has began nowadays — the primary day of the rest of his and DeSantis’s political lives — by using doing what he does perfect: attacking and insulting his former political ally grew to become rival on social media.

He opened with the outdated chestnut of taking credit score for DeSantis’s successful run for governor, a message he’s sent many times. But the former president just isn’t afraid to hit the classics:

Seem to be, Rob DeSanctimonious got here to me requesting help. He became shedding badly, through 31 points, to widespread Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam. He became on the brink of drop out of the race – Ran a horrific marketing campaign! Ron told me he had one closing chance, my Strengthen & Endorsement, which Putnam, and everyone else, wanted additionally. I gave it to Ron, and the race changed into over. In one day, he went from shedding badly, to successful through rather a lot. With 3 LARGE TRUMP RALLIES, he WON THE GENERAL ELECTION in an upset. DISLOYAL!!!

Trump then disregarded DeSantis’s probabilities for winning the final election (although that’s continuously stated because the it is because Trump will have to no longer win the Republican nomination) before hitting DeSantis’s personality:

Ron DeSanctus can’t win the Typical Election (or get the Nomination) as a result of he VOTED TO OBLITERATE SOCIAL SECURITY, EVEN WANTING TO RAISE THE MINIMUM AGE TO 70 (or extra!), VOTED TO BADLY WOUND MEDICARE, AND FOUGHT HARD AND VOTED FOR A 23% “TAX ON EVERYTHING” SALES TAX. He turned into, and is, a disciple of horrible RINO Paul Ryan, and others too many to mention. Additionally, he desperately desires a persona transplant and, to one of the best of my data, they don’t seem to be medically available but. A disloyal person!

(“Trump Admits He Is Ignorant of a Personality Transplant!” changed into a headline we in short thought to be.)

Trump then back to his ALL CAPS layout as a result of he notion that turned into a compelling approach to get his message out and under no circumstances unhinged:

I BUILT THE GREATEST ECONOMY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, NO INFLATION, ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, AND SOON DOMINANCE, THE STRONGEST BORDER EVER, RECORD BEST EMPLOYMENT NUMBERS, BIGGEST TAX & REGULATION CUTS, REBUILT OUR MILITARY, NO WARS WITH RUSSIA/UKRAINE OR CHINA/TAIWAN (OR ANYWHERE!), AND THE USA WAS RESPECTED ALL OVER THE WORLD! WHAT ELSE CAN I SAY?

Eventually, with out apparent purpose, Trump dropped the non sequitur “ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!” as a result of why not?

 

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