The Ronald v. The Donald
The Republican Ronald-MacDonald clown matchup for 2024 gets mafia tough.
When President Donald Trump lost his re-election bid to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in the 2020 presidential race because DeSantis wouldn’t endorse him, it came as a tough blow since DeSantis wasn’t even running. Trump retaliated at the time by saying “DeSantis is not my governor.”
Now that Trump is running again, he is turning the tables on DeSantis by claiming DeSantis only won as governor of Florida because of Trump’s endorsement in what was supposed to have been a scratch-my-back-I’ll-stab-yours endorsement trade.
“I got him elected, pure and simple,” Trump claimed, regarding his endorsement of DeSantis:
In response to questions about DeSantis running directly against him this time in a presidential election, the Donald said in an understated way, “So, we’ll handle that the way I handle things.”
Those familiar with the language of other famous dons, know this usually means something like, “We’ll cast his feet in concrete and make a boat anchor out of him.”
Of course, it could simply mean Trump will engage in name-calling, one of the former president’s trademarks in debate. Having already called him “Ron DeSanctimonious,” however, he’ll have to come up with something better, or it will seem like Trump is losing his mojo, a claim Trump has often made against his Democratic challenger. Trump has already panel-tested names like Ron DeSoto, comparing the governor to a has-been car, but the name was found to register solely with people of Trump’s own advanced age.
Having shown a preference for sophomoric names, Trump could also go for something like “Little Ronnie,” but that could backfire into DeSantis calling him “Tiny-hands Trump,” plus it would risk conferring Reagan-like status on DeSantis – always a positive among Republicants.
Trump could even insult DeSantis’s wife, as he once did with Ted Cruz when he compared the beauty of his opponent’s wife to his own wife’s beauty as proof of Trumpian prowess. With Cruz, that tactic was effective in getting Cruz to rally for Trump and to unswervingly defend his attempted insurrection at the Capitol. Insulting Cruz’s wife seems to have made a lifetime ally out Cruz. It was probably something Cruz always wanted to do himself but didn’t have the guts to do because, in his own words, he’s a “small and petty man who is intimidated by strong women.” Ted Cruz is no Tom Cruise tough guy, for sure, nor is he a Will Smith in the stand-by-your-wife department.
The problem with this familiar approach for Trump is that Casey DeSantis can probably stand her own ground against Melania Trump.
As an alternative, Trump could attack DeSantis by claiming his father was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, another tactic he used against Cruz, and he would have equal evidentiary grounds for saying so, meaning none whatsoever.
Trump could, of course, just endlessly play Ron DeSantis’s ad from his governor’s race in which DeSantis repeatedly showed himself as the world’s biggest Trump fan, complete with exploiting his own baby in a MAGA onesie.
If “Ron’s all Trump,” as wife Casey says people say in the ad, then why not just vote Trump – sort of like when someone says, “Rattlesnake tastes just like chicken,” and the person they are persuading to eat the rattlesnake says, “Then why not just eat chicken?”
One thing is certain, with the Ronald-MacDonald matchup, the Republican clown car is loaded with professional entertainment for the next election.
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