Trump’s Glass Jaw
Donald Trump is showing his glass jaw. The former president infamously launches vile, fact-free slurs at rivals, enemies and even the odd bystander. Yet after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, interviewed by The Post’s Piers Morgan, mildly noted Trump’s chaotic style and the alleged hush-money-to-a-porn-star thing, Trump (and his cronies) completely lost it.
“Ron DeSanctimonious is not working for the people of Florida as he should be, he is too busy chatting with a Ratings Challenged TV Host from England,” Trump fumed at Truth Social — dumping on Morgan, who merely interviewed DeSantis.
Trump-backer Steve Bannon called DeSantis a “weasel.” Mike Lindell, “disgusting.”
Donald Trump Jr. said DeSantis is “pathetically” turning to the “liberal media” (did he really mean The Post?) “on orders from his RINO establishment owners.” DeSantis, whose record of standing up to the Lockdown Left far excelled Trump’s, is a RINO?
Trump even doubled down on his innuendo that the Florida gov is a groomer — a ridiculous smear he first echoed last month, after a grainy picture emerged of a guy who looked like a young DeSantis partying with young women, one apparently holding a beer.
It’s perfectly fair — and not at all unhinged — you see, for Trump to ludicrously imply that the father of 2016 prez-race rival Ted Cruz helped John Kennedy’s assassin. And to call Cruz’s wife ugly. And to mock the looks of 2016 rival Carly Fiorina in a debate.
Or to call his own former national security adviser, John Bolton, a “dope.” Or his own niece, Mary, “unstable.” No one’s lobbed as many bullying insults as The Donald.
Sure, Trump faced an unprecedented onslaught of purely partisan, fabricated attacks from the left during his time in office. The Post and DeSantis stood up for him during Russiagate and the rest.
But DeSantis merely says out loud what everyone already knows to be true about the ex-prez — that his term in office was plagued by “drama” and chaos, that he spends his time “fighting with people on social media” — and TrumpWorld goes nuts.
Trump can’t take a tiny bit of what he loves to dish out. Sad.