“I’m guessing you were a Cruz type”
No not all. I voted for Trump both elections, enthusiastically. 2016 primaries too.
But I think Desantis has done a good job as governor of my state. He certainly isn’t governing like a Rubio, Cruz, Nikki Haley establishment GOPe establishment politician.
Now, Trump is correct in a sense: Desantis DID close down Florida, to a degree. For about a month. But by May 2020 he was opening Florida up quickly and taking A LOT of heat for it. While other governors were still doing the mask mandates and other nonsense. Desantis was ahead of all the other governors on covid sanity.
Meanwhile… Trump kept the entire country shut down for months. Remember “15 days to flatten the curve”? “We’ll be open by Easter”? That was Trump! And he has the gall to say “shutdown Ron”?
Trump can’t rewrite history. We remember. He got played by Fauci (who he affectionately referred to as “Tony” and praised for months in 2020- cringe) et al - and Trump’s mishandling of covid - by not governing more like desantis- helped cost him the election.
I voted for Trump 2X and glad I did it. But he made a lot of grave errors as President example did not “drain the swamp”, “lock her up”, or fire Fauci etc when he should have. He surrounded himself with backstabbers and weirdos (Bolten? Scaramucci?).
Also I think Trump is too old- look what 80 years looks like on his “successor”. America needs someone sharp and on their game, and I think Trump’s recent tone deafness and frankly lies about Desantis suggest that he has already lost a step.
Trump is rightly attacking the Establishment that’s attempting to thwart his 2024 run. Plain as day, and surprisingly over the heads of so many indignant FReepers.
The real embarrassment are the reactionary FReepers unable to endure the same type of primary campaign trolling of 2016. Sound like a bunch of whiny-ass Democrats. That’s right, whiny-ass Rats
You should get your facts straight.
President Trump had no authority to shut down anything other than Federal facilities.
Anyone who has any complaints about the dystopian, totalitarian COVID lockdowns should take it up with the @sshole in their governor’s or mayor’s office who imposed it. Because it sure wasn’t Trump who did.