If you’ll recall, last month, The Daily Beast served up one of the most desperate hit jobs on Ron DeSantis that we’d seen yet. The one about how he allegedly eats pudding with three fingers.
New — Ex-DeSantis staffers and those involved in planning his book tour/pre-campaign events describe long standing issues over his soft skills coming to the fore as he hits the road.
Example: A 2019 flight from TLH to DC where he ate pudding w/ 3 fingers.https://t.co/KEwA7F9Pgr
— Jake Lahut (@JakeLahut) March 16, 2023
In case your memory could use a refreshment:
The chatter over DeSantis’ public engagement has also surfaced past unflattering stories about his social skills—particularly, his propensity to devour food during meetings.
“He would sit in meetings and eat in front of people,” a former DeSantis staffer told The Daily Beast, “always like a starving animal who has never eaten before… getting sh*t everywhere.”
Enshrined in DeSantis lore is an episode from four years ago: During a private plane trip from Tallahassee to Washington, D.C., in March of 2019, DeSantis enjoyed a chocolate pudding dessert—by eating it with three of his fingers, according to two sources familiar with the incident.
Man, that was a weird one. Made even weirder by the fact that some people out there actually thought it was a solid swipe at DeSantis. Hell, American Bridge President Pat Dennis was downright inspired:
paid ad with a ron desantis lookalike eating pudding with his fingers, but it's labeled medicare and social security, is that anything
— Pat Dennis (@patdennis) March 16, 2023
As it turns out, that is something. And that something is a new ad from the fine folks at Make America Great Again Inc.
Behold:
Pudding Fingers pic.twitter.com/PRCVAZlkw9
— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) April 14, 2023
Wow. Woooooooow.
You got him now
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) April 14, 2023
Boy, do they!
I have a feeling this ad is going to stick….
In all seriousness it’s wrong that globalists like Rob DeSantis supporting spending endless amounts of money on foreign wars like Ukraine but want to gut benefits from American seniors.
Trump takes care of Americans First! https://t.co/HNbojfi4WD
— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) April 14, 2023
The ad is sticking, all right. But not in the way Alex needs it to. More in the Team-Trump-is-not-gonna-be-able-to-shake-off-the-stench-of-whatever-the-hell-this-ad-is kind of way.
— Prison Mitch (@MidnightMitch) April 14, 2023
And that ad is pure, unadulterated cringe.
it’s very weird that team trump put out a pudding sex fetish clip. https://t.co/YDAzgwzQPy
— kaitlin (@thefactualprep) April 14, 2023
Ok so this ad is just nasty lol. How desperate is the Trump campaign💀 https://t.co/R8HJdcmCyA
— Ryan Cook🇺🇸🤠⚜️ (@ryan_cook2021) April 14, 2023
Pretty damn desperate.
Trump is running the Democrats' playbook, including literally following the public advice of Democratic admakers. https://t.co/JQg0lyVCm6
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) April 14, 2023
That’s literally what Trump and his minions are doing. They’re attacking Ron DeSantis from the Left!
Lincoln Project released it's first 2024 national ad attacking DeSantis through Trump's super PAC https://t.co/S8tGqBmba0
— Joel Weingart (@JoelWeingart_) April 14, 2023
Ha! Let’s just say nobody should be surprised if MAGA Inc. and The Lincoln Project collaborated on that ad.
Most low IQ political ad in history goes to…Trump World. https://t.co/LYmx74PqT2
— Cryptid Politics 🇺🇸 (@CryptidPolitics) April 14, 2023
And the prize is a gold-plated horseshoe.
Two things jumping out at me here:
– The guy who's been whining about fake news for the last 8 years eagerly jumped on this bit of fake news.
– This story was specifically concocted to dupe Leftists. Trump was duped. Draw your own conclusions. https://t.co/dKarQru8ES
— Eric Spencer (@JustEric) April 14, 2023
Trump is a Leftist.
— Area Man (@lheal) April 14, 2023
At the very least, Trump is a Democrat. And he thinks that ad makes him look appealing as a Republican candidate. Mkay.
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