I don’t understand Trumps hatred of Ron…he basically got the guy in office and since then Ron has pretty much enacted all of Trumps policies. Either he fixes whatever problems he has with Ron or Trump will slowly morph into old man who yells at cloud territory here.
The Youngkin stuff about his name sounding Chinese was just idiotic.
He doesn’t hate Ron. He sees him sort of as an ingrate. Everthing he said about Ron was factual and he owes it to Trump to sit this one out. Something Greg Kelly said and something I agree with Trump on, but in politics this happens all the time. People turn their back on you and forget what you did for them. That’s politics and remember Trump isn’t a politician. He doesn’t play by their rules or when they break their own rules he is free to point it out. Now the uniparty wants Ron to run and is ripping Trump every day. At the end of the day I don’t think Ron runs.
On the “Young Kin stuff”, take the time to understand it. Trump’s statement came out after Young Kin’s Lieutenant attacked Trump in a TV interview as the fall guy for the election and said it’s time to move on from Trump. Excuse me. Neither of them have been Governor long enough, not even a year. Trump has been warning him gently, don’t do this Glen it’s not your time. He couldn’t win without him and that is true, if he came out against him he wasn’t going to win. Now they are saying move on? Trump called into question his name. Sorry that’s not idiotic. They are asking for it. What he was getting at is his work with the Carlyle group. A private asset hedge fund ground. He’s a billionaire and a lot of the work went to the Chinese. The company CEO said they’re “committed to China.” Trump was pointing that out. It could be troublesome.
Everthing he said about Desantis was factual and measured. Especially compared to what the Deemocrats have said about each other.
The repub presidential primary is already going on behind the scenes with money flowing to DeSantis and his and Youngkin’s name being talked about by people like Paul Ryan, Luntz etc. Trump knows all of this so he’s kicking into primary mode. It’s nothing personal. It’s just the way Trump campaigns. Remember the 2016 primary?
Morgan told the story of when he was interviewing Kanye West and Morgan said to West "Let me give you a piece of advice..." West cut him off and asked "What's your net worth? Are you worth a billion dollars?" Morgan replied "no," and West then said "Then I don't care about your advice."
The point of this story is that President Trump is worth so much money that it surprises me that he still lets people get under his skin. I've met some very rich people socially, and when I've been invited to dinner in restaurants with them they are usually loud, dismissive, and don't care what others think about them. "I can buy this place if they don't like it" is a usual retort.
The fact that Trump lets all these people of lesser accomplishment push his buttons in so obvious a way and with so obvious a desired result to hurt him, it surprises me that he still engages them on their terms like that.
If I could give President Trump a piece of advice...
I'd ask him why doesn't just ignore the sniping, and advise him to let it roll off his back and let his deeds do his talking for him. I'd advise President Trump to not let his detractors of lesser accomplishment steal his gravitas from him and use it to attack him with it on their terms.
-PJ
I don’t understand Trumps hatred of Ron…
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Think back to 2016 when Trump and Ted Cruz were friendly competitors. Until they weren’t. Until Trump got nasty and vicious.
Donald Trump is doing to Ron DeSantis exactly what he did to Ted Cruz some 6 years ago. The trouble is while it might’ve worked back then, it will not work today. Ron DeSantis is not Ted Cruz.
People like and respect Desantis.
The Big Club (Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, Rupert Murdoch et Al) are wooing Ron to stab his mentor Trump in the back instead if maturing a bit and waiting his turn.
This will put all of Florida and much of the base in turmoil and give Joe Biden and his cronies a free pass. They have given Ron huge amounts of money already. Trump knows this and thinks Ron is a traitor.
Remember the Mar A Lago FBI raid. You think Kari Lake would allow that in her state?
The anger is because DeSantis was against lockdowns and the vaccine push. And against wokeness.
That whole mess could have been handled very differently and much better.