Donald Trump fired off a slew of recent insults at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), a rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, on Wednesday.
The previous president uploaded a video montage of DeSantis praising him, posted a sequence of mocking memes, taunted him as a “knockoff,” attacked his response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and shared a ballot of him beating DeSantis.
However the middle of all of it was a jab at DeSantis’ identify.
“He’s demanding that folks name him DeeeSantis, quite than DaSantis,” he posted on his Reality Social platform. “Really, I like ‘Da’ higher, a nicer circulate, so I’m completely satisfied he’s altering it. He will get very upset when folks, together with reporters, don’t pronounce it accurately.”
Naturally, the submit included Trump’s personal tackle DeSantis’ identify:
Trump usually pokes on the names of his rivals, and bestows insulting nicknames. For DeSantis, he’s gone with “Rob,” “DeSanctimonious” and “DeSanctus,” and has reportedly toyed with known as him “Meatball Ron.”
DeSantis fired again throughout a information convention on Tuesday, particularly taking intention at Trump’s criticism of his coronavirus response.
“He used to say how nice Florida was,” he mentioned throughout a information convention on Wednesday. “Hell, his complete household moved to Florida below my governorship, are you kidding me?”