Trump mocks DeSantis at Pennsylvania rally: 'Ron DeSanctimonious'

Fox ^ | Nov 5 2022 | Fox

[NeverCheney]

Former President Donald Trump took a swipe at Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis at a rally on Saturday night referring to him as "Ron DeSanctimonious" in what could be a sign of growing tension between the two potential presidential candidates.

[NorthMountain]

Save it for the enemy, Donny-boy. You’re just making yourself look small.

[lone star annie]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o8jz7Cwjo3c

This ad is why Trump labeled him Desanctimonious. Now I find that funny. Gotta love Trump! “God made a fighter”

[Rocco DiPippo]

When I read this I got a quick pit in my stomach. This is not a good look for Trump considering that he and DeSantis are on the same page when it comes to the major issues.

Attack leftist filth and RINOS, Trump, not your own kind. Ugh.

[rdcbn1]

Trump needs to take a hint from Ronaldus Magnus’s Golden Rule - Never speak ill of another Republican. Of course, Ronaldus had the luxury of driving all of the Country Club Republicans out of power before he was elected in 1980. Unfortunately, we still have a lot of RINOs in office who need to see the light or be shown the door.

[nathanbedford]

“Lyin Ted” was TRUE

No, it wasn't true when he said it.

It wasn't true when he obliquely accused Ted's father of murdering John F. Kennedy.

It wasn't true when he slandered Ted's wife.

We were forced to swallow, or rather choke down, one gratuitous, gutter liable after another by Trump but few of us are prepared to swallow smoothly if Trump cannot control his childish solipsism respecting DeSantis.

Trump's bigmouth very likely cost us in the 2018 election, safe margin in the 2020 election and the Georgia Senate in the run off.

I have written that we have to defend Trump right into the White House in 2024 or both the rule of law and decency in politics are forfeit. But Trump is pushing his luck with this comment and with his comment about "ask-kissing" JD Vance in Ohio.

Our bench is deep, Trump might well have run his course and has nothing new to say, at any rate he is mindlessly exhausting whatever goodwill he built up with good policies.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Enough Mr President

This isnt about Y O U

[sit-rep]

thats been my lingering thought on all 3 of these threads. and i’m a bit shocked to see all the disdain towards trump coming out of the woodwork here. and youre right... i havent heard or read anything positive desantis has said about trump. nothing...

[nathanbedford]

“ But deSantis has said nothing negative about Trump” "Wow"

How many times have we heard that Trump is a counterpunch who does not initiate these childless insults but crudely insults his adversaries only when first attacked?

In the world of ever lowering bar of acceptable Trump behavior, a fellow Republican is now worthy of slander by Trump if he merely publicly fails to say "something good about Trump."

The more we permit ourselves to be made silly by fan boy worship, the more ammunition we give the Democrats.

[nathanbedford]

We don’t pay Trump to be perfect. We pay him to do a particular job, and he does that job very well.

Part of the job of the president includes duties beyond commander-in-chief and even beyond chief executive officer, those duties include head of the party and leader of the nation.

Leader of the nation in the sense that Lincoln led the nation, that Washington, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan led the nation. They led the nation to adhere to their better angels, they led the nation in a spiritual and moral sense. Some presidents, John F. Kennedy in particular, in whom I find much to criticize, led the nation in this sense with a greater vision for what you can do for your country. He inspired the nation even though most of it was Buncombe.

Ronald Reagan inspired the nation to defeat Bolshevism. That is a moral crusade. It is an essential requirement for presidential competency much more for presidential greatness that he inspire the nation positively.

I will not debate here whether Trump has done that, but I will insist that that is just as much a part of a President's duties to uplift the nation as is vetoing an increase in taxes.

[nathanbedford]

It won't be long before the next round of zotting starts over Trump's inability to think before opening his mouth.

This time, it will be the death of FR, for financial reasons. You just can't run off another 25% of your audience without negative effects.

That comment should be bronzed and enshrined in the Free Republic Hall of Fame.

[central_va]

Oh Geriartric Republic will lose them anyway (if you know what I mean).

[central_va]

Wow, Trump makes a small off hand remark about your pretty boy aka Pope Ron and you Desanctimonious desciples go nuts. F all of retards with terminal TS.

[mewzilla]

More food for thought...

'DeSanctimonious' was a "shot across the bow" and is in direct response to DeSantis talking to Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan behind Trump's back. McCarthy and Ryan have hatched a plan to defeat MAGA in '24 and want to use DeSantis as the stool. 100% a DC establishment plan.

[linMcHlp]

Night Hides Not: “It won’t be long before the next round of zotting starts over Trump’s inability to think before opening his mouth.”

nathanbedford: “That comment should be bronzed and enshrined in the Free Republic Hall of Fame”

Priceless

[nathanbedford]

And fair game to be called whatever name Trump sees fit to call him as his 2024 rival.

Let Trump be Trump. It works.

But that did not work in 2018 and in 2020.

Yes, concededly there were other factors like unremitting attacks by Democrats and the media, Russia hoax and impeachment etc. but did Trump rub too raw suburban mamas thus enabling the Democrats to cheat to win?

Trump won by under hundred thousand votes in 2016 and lost by under 100,000 votes in 2020. How much damaged did his big mouth do?

[central_va]

Sissy Desantis disciples can’t take a little snide Trump verbal mean tweet and you want us to take Pope Ron seriously?

[Maris Crane]

Worth repeating.

[central_va]

i havent heard or read anything positive desantis has said about trump. nothing...

[NorthMountain]

Thank you for demonstrating my point.

[central_va]

Lake just eclipsed Desantis. LOL! Your guy is Cruz II.