Donald Trump welcomed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to the Republican presidential race with a collection of more and more weird posts on his numerous social media channels.
The previous president posted a video attacking DeSantis as an ingrate who owes his profession to Trump. He posted one other of what seems to be a SpaceX rocket falling over and exploding with “Ron! 2024” over it.
And he shared a bizarre video mocking DeSantis’ entry by way of a glitchy Twitter occasion hosted by Elon Musk.
In Trump’s model, the contributors embrace not simply Musk and DeSantis but additionally Adolf Hitler, the satan, a coughing Dick Cheney, billionaire George Soros, World Financial Discussion board founder Klaus Schwab and an FBI agent overtly plotting to “take out” Trump.
The video concludes with a pretend ― maybe AI ― Trump voice unleashing insults.
“The satan, I’m gonna kick your ass very quickly. Hitler, you’re already useless. Dick Cheney, sounds such as you’ll be becoming a member of Hitler very quickly,” the Trump voice says. “Ron DeSanctimonious can kiss my massive, lovely 2024 presidential ass.”
The weird video was posted on Trump’s official Instagram and Fact Social pages however broadly shared by others on Twitter:
Trump additionally fired off a collection on insults geared toward DeSantis on his Fact Social web site, together with one through which he in contrast sizes.
That’s a reference to a 2018 tweet by Trump warning that his nuclear launch button “is a a lot larger & extra highly effective one than his, and my Button works!”
DeSantis at one level gave the impression to be a respectable menace to Trump’s third run for the presidency, with polls exhibiting him catching up the previous president.
One ballot in January even had DeSantis with a lead over Trump.
His star has since pale, with more moderen polls exhibiting the Florida governor behind by double digits ― together with a current Quinnipiac ballot that has the Florida governor down by almost 30 proportion factors.
“His entire marketing campaign will likely be a catastrophe,” Trump predicted Wednesday on Fact Social. “WATCH!”