Ron DeSantis thinks Trump is 'f***ing nuts' and has 'no business' running in 2024: Report | Daily Mail Online
By: Elizabeth Elkind (Mail Online)
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has reportedly told donors that he plans to hammer Trump over unfulfilled promises if the two wind up facing each other in a 2024 Republican primary. Those reportedly include attacks about Trump's border wall and for not having fired Dr. Anthony Fauci
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis privately called his former ally Donald Trump a 'moron' and 'f***ing nuts,' according to a Tuesday report detailing the popular Republican leader's recent rise to prominence.
DeSantis' narrow 2018 victory over ex-Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum was widely credited to Trump's support for his campaign - back when DeSantis was a member of the House Freedom Caucus.
Their close relationship fractured as DeSantis' star grew. For months neither has been seen directly mentioning the other amid rumors of a possible 2024 clash for the White House.
But DeSantis has savagely locked Trump in private, according to Vanity Fair. And while he's thus far demurred from presidential speculation, the Sunshine State governor reportedly told donors that he would face a Trump challenge 'head on.'
'He calls him a TV personality and a moron who has no business running for president,' a staffer told the outlet.
The report suggests his plan of attack would largely focus on showing Trump's broken promises and empty threats as just bluster.
An unnamed Republican source recalled him telling donors, '[T]he only way to beat Trump is to attack him head-on. He says he would turn to Trump during a debate and say, "Why didn't you fire Fauci? You said you would build the wall, but there is no wall. Why is that?"'
But even when he represented Florida in the House of Representatives, before Trump's unforeseen rise to the presidency, Vanity Fair's report claims he was mocking the then-president behind his back.
When Trump first ran for president, DeSantis 'made more fun of Donald Trump than anyone I know,' a former staffer reportedly said.
Trump meanwhile has reportedly branded DeSantis as 'disloyal' and a 'know-nothing,' while a previous report indicates Trump made fun of the Florida governor's weight
'He thought Trump was f***ing nuts,' another said.
In 2015, DeSantis and his staffers reportedly had a laugh at Trump's expense while watching old videos of him on Saturday Night Live.
Trump, who once adored the comedy show's attention, grew to revile it over its constant and cutting parodies of his political career.
A staffer recalled, '[W]e pulled up old SNL videos of Trump doing Domino's pizza commercials and stood around the computer making fun of Trump for 30 minutes.'
It came after Trump's appearance at a Republican Jewish Coalition where he told the audience, 'I'm a negotiator like you folks' - which was seen by his critics as an anti-Semitic trope.
'Ron came back to the office and said, "I can't believe Trump said that!"' the staffer recalled.
Neither Trump nor DeSantis have declared any concrete 2024 plans, and their silence over each other's public headlines is telling.
'Trump says he's overrated, disloyal, and a know-nothing,' someone referred to as a 'Trump friend' said.
The two had shared a close public relationship after Trump's endorsement helped DeSantis clinch the 2018 Florida gubernatorial election
An excerpt from Maggie Haberman's forthcoming book 'Confidence Man' published in The Atlantic over the weekend claimed Trump had called DeSantis 'fat,' 'whiny' and a 'phony.'
But the Tuesday report suggests DeSantis could struggle in an area where Trump is known to do well - charisma.
'I describe him as having the personality of a piece of paper,' said a former staffer of his.
An unnamed Republican reportedly said DeSantis was 'missing the sociability gene.'
One strategist apparently suggested that DeSantis lacked gratitude toward donors and other support.
'People host events where donors give him enormous sums of money, and he never says thank you,' they said.
Someone who worked for his current office in Tallahassee is quoted as saying, 'When you work for Ron, he makes you feel like you're just lucky to be there.'
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The death match has begun.
Let's hope he wins.
A battle of wits between 2 unarmed opponents...
Battle of the swamp dwellers.
Is that a Florida resident joke?
It is, since we have one of the largest swamps in the world (Everglades). Actually DeSantis is trying to save them. Trump has no idea what and where the Everglades are.
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You sure live up to your name.
That's great and you're doing a great job of it. [removed]
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You can call it anything you like. You both got tickets. You didn't have to ramp it up, as you are doing now with me. Officially you get a cool off period now.
A valid question.
Since the original perpetrator was unable to control his mouth or in this case fingers and decided to continue posting violations that would certainly have a detrimental effect and would earn him whatever punishment handed out.
Thus comparing the comments/violations shows that the original perpetrator let his mouth overload his ass and accordingly he earned what he got. The other ''perpetrator'' (your language) was given three violations.
If you have any more questions regarding this incident I'm sure your curiosity can be satisfied or not.
A valid response.
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Ahh, that's the best that you can do is make unfounded accusations or whine, that seems to be your MO.
"Ahh, that's the best that you can do is make unfounded accusations or whine, that seems to be your MO."
Ya, that's all he's got. It's both actually
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Trump was a tv personality and a moron back in 2016 too, but that didnt stop DeSantis from praising him to high heaven for 4 or 5 years.
trumpturd - the steaming pile of shit - just called DeathSantis fat, phony, and whiny - must have been looking in the mirror.
I was thinking the same thing
pot meet kettle
"I'm a good negotiator like you are" speaking to Republican Jews.
They’re both pretty awful.
Its funny how many people get upset when Trump or DeSantis get criticized.
White Majoritarians feel they finally have champions who actually get it.
America was a great place to live in until the government put its thumb on the scale by removing immigration quotas back in the 1960s.
Wait, doesn't sound right - "put its thumb on the scale by removing quotas?"
I need to rework my talking points.
"The passage of the act marked a fundamental change in America’s immigration policy:
(Ted) Kennedy declared:
“First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same…
Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset… Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia…
In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think… The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.”
To be filed under trusting a progressive.
File under righting a bigoted law.
If Lee Harvey Oswald hadn't shot Kennedy none of the legislation LBJ pushed through would have ever passed.
(Is a thought that has occurred to me.)
EDIT: I don't fully understand the 60s. I technically grew up during them but I was just a child then. The mythology of the 60s I cultivated through in the 70s had more to do with Woodstock than politics. Weren't people more racist then than today? Have I got it backwards?
It seems unknown to many Americans is LBJ's staunch support of Mexicans when they were fighting for their rights long before he was President.
That aside I grew up in the 40s and 50s near a ''sundown town'' in northern MN. the racism was overwhelming and sadly these many years later it is still there. Has there been forward movement, yes there has, but the past few years it seems much of that forward movement has began a backward movement.
I am aware of the fact that LBJ's liberal accomplishments and priorities precede him winding up in the White House. But I don't think he would have been able to pull along congress and the nation to pass the Civil RIghts Act if we had not been so traumatized by the assassination of JFK.
He could twist some arms so I think that he may have pulled it off.
But it wouldn't have actually been him. It would have been JFK.
Meanwhile the triggered still hate Trump and give the boob they elected, a complete free pass ..... news at eleven .....