Former President Trump ripped into Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Saturday, blasting him for his response to the coronavirus and his friendships with former GOP politicians and more.
Former President Trump ripped into Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis early Saturday, blasting him for his response to the coronavirus and his friendships with establishment GOP politicians while denying that he ever called him “Meatball Ron.”report that he had taken to referring to the pol with Italian roots by the derisive nickname.
“I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious ‘Meatball’ Ron, as the Fake News is insisting I will,” Trump said at 1 a.m.
The post suggests Trump, 76, is ramping up his shadow campaign with DeSantis for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination — and also that Trump’s own propensity for social media trash talking at all hours of the day and night remains undiminished by his advancing age, though so far he has stuck to Truth and not returned to larger platforms like Twitter andtwo years after he was booted off following the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
The post suggests Trump is ramping up his shadow campaign with DeSantis for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.have declared their candidacies. DeSantis is widely expected to jump into the race and has become a favorite of those looking for an alternative to Trump. Though Trump has now taken repeated shots at the Florida governor — a former protégé — DeSantis has assiduously refused to take the bait. When asked about the barbs earlier this month, he bristled before finally answering, “I don’t spend my time trying to smear other Republicans.”
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