Donald Trump couldn’t stop gloating over Ron DeSantis’s botched 2024 campaign rollout with Elon Musk. The ex-president celebrated the governor’s live stream glitch with Truth Social rants, a new nickname, and a campaign ad that’s actually good.
Donald Trump has been practicing his Ron DeSantis attacks for months: He’s hit the Florida governor for his policy positions (like threatening Social Security and signing a six-week abortion ban) and for completely absurd reasons (like eating pudding with his fingers and having a name that sounds a bit like “DeSanctimonious”). So when the Florida governor did something that was actually hilariously inept on Wednesday — bungling the rollout of his 2024 presidential campaign — Trump was ready. Here’s how Trump, who’s never been one to take the high road, reveled in this Republican rival’s misfortune.
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Trump relentlessly attacked DeSantis on Truth Social.
Trump complains about DeSantis frequently on Truth Social, but he really went all out in the lead-up to the governor’s campaign announcement with Elon Musk. Trump posted more than two dozen anti-DeSantis “truths” on Wednesday, including retweeted memes, videos, polls, articles, and original rants like this:
Following the Twitter Spaces meltdown, Trump remarked, “Wow! The DeSanctus TWITTER launch is a DISASTER! His whole campaign will be a disaster.
