Trump trolls DeSantis with ‘awkward’ video of Florida governor wiping his nose with hand while greeting people
Former president Donald Trump mocked Ron DeSantis, his chief rival within the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, by posting a video of the Florida governor wiping his nose with his hand while greeting people.
Mr Trump posted the video on his Fact Social website, which featured the youngsters’s music “One of These Issues is Not Just like the Different” with Mr DeSantis speaking with supporters while holding a beer. The video was created on the right-wing video website Rumble by the pro-Trump Dilley Meme Staff.
The top of the video exhibits Mr DeSantis wiping his nose with his hand while talking with people with a voice saying “ew.”
The Florida governor has obtained unfavourable media consideration for his supposed social awkwardness, most notably a narrative in The Every day Beast the place he reportedly ate pudding with his fingers.
Mr Trump has often pilloried Mr DeSantis, accusing the Florida governor of being disloyal after Mr Trump endorsed him within the Republican major for governor in 2018, and has dubbed him “Ron DeSanctimonious.”
Throughout a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, he mocked the truth that Mr DeSantis’s marketing campaign is shedding cash and workers, in accordance with a number of information experiences. He additionally mentioned Mr DeSantis ruined his possibilities to run for president in 2028.
“Loads of people say simply saying that is dropping out of the race,” Mr Trump mentioned. “I do not know that that is true, however I would not be shocked. He ought to. As a result of I believe he is completely killed himself for [2028].”
Mr DeSantis lately laid off a number of members of his workers after elevating solely $20m and burning by way of a big half of his marketing campaign money regardless of the very fact he has solely been a candidate for 2 months.
A New York Instances/Siena Faculty confirmed that 54 per cent of Republicans help Mr Trump, with solely 17 per cent supporting Mr DeSantis.
