Trump Says DeSantis Cried Like A Baby While Begging For His Endorsement

Donald Trump has officially launched his "scorched earth" attack on Florida governor Ron DeSantis, and so far it isn't as thrilling as we had expected. Trump claimed in an interview last week that DeSantis came to him with "tears rolling down his face" and begged for his endorsement in 2018, and Trump obliged because he felt sorry for him. Trump is trying to portray DeSantis as a weak man-baby, as Farron Cousins explains.

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Donald Trump still seems to believe that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is of course going to be his biggest competition in 2024. And of course, he did announce recently that, you know, he was gonna handle him the way he handles things and his campaign people. And, uh, those close to him said, you know, he is preparing to basically go scorched earth against Ron DeSantis. So we now have our first taste of what Trump going, scorched earth against Ron DeSantis looks like. And it looks like Donald Trump calling him a big giant crybaby. Donald Trump said late last week, that Ron DeSantis, when he was running for governor the first time here in the state of Florida, came to him begging for the endorsement. And as he was begging, there were tears running down his face. Here is the exact statement from Donald Trump. He was dead. He was leaving the race.

He came over and he begged me, begged me for an endorsement. He said, if you endorse me, I'll win. And there were tears coming down from his eyes. That is what Donald Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt last week. And it's quite the image, isn't it? Ron DeSantis having to go to Donald Trump begging him during that Republican gubernatorial primary. If you do this, I'll win. If you don't, I'll lose and just boohooing and tears flowing everywhere. And I wanna believe it. I really do. Just because I loathe Ron DeSantis probably more than I loathe Donald Trump. I just, I don't know. I'm struggling to see it. I don't think Ron DeSantis was actually crying. But here's the thing. Donald Trump has repeatedly when talking about his, you know, opponents one way or the other, usually the ones who like to project themselves as manly men, he'll talk about them crying.

This is literally not the first time Donald Trump has accused another man of openly weeping while speaking to him. Because what Trump is trying to do, of course, and we have seen his supporters do this for many years, Trump wants to be the biggest, most manliest guy out there. You can't outman Donald Trump. I, we have seen the cartoons from that, you know, idiot Ben Garrison, where Trump's like this muscle bound, super slim figure, and stronger than everything. We have seen other pieces of artwork from conservatives depicting Donald Trump is this superhuman manliest of men. But in order to protect that image, Donald Trump has to go out there and be like, I am the most manly man. These are little crybaby weakling men. You cannot have them as president. They shall cry all the time like a baby, because

That that is what they are. Um, again, listen, maybe it works. Like maybe there are going to be some conservatives who look at that and go, well, I can't vote for DeSantis. Not if the man openly wept begging Trump for help, but there's gonna be a lot of people who won. Don't even see that Trump said that. So they don't care. And two, there's gonna be plenty who like me, are simply like, yeah, that didn't happen. We're pretty sure that there's literally no chance in hell any of that exchange that Trump described ever took place. Like this is a fantasy you have created in your head to make yourself feel better about how you are as a man. That's what most people will likely see this as. So if this is Donald Trump going scorched earth against Ron DeSantis, I don't think DeSantis has much to worry about. But if this was little, uh, you know, we'll call it a scorched earth appetizer, maybe, yeah, maybe the entree is coming up in just a little bit. But if that's all you got, then Trump's campaign is dead in the water cuz that's pretty weak.