Former President Donald Trump drew attention when he seemingly mocked Ron DeSantis for his challenging interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, describing the interaction in a vivid and somewhat unsettling manner.
DeSantis’s appearance on CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins” was marked by a rigorous line of questioning, including a persistent focus on contentious topics such as red flag laws and foreign policy issues like the war in Ukraine. Towards the end of the interview, Collins prodded DeSantis on his relationship with Trump, insinuating that he lags significantly behind the former president and questioning his reluctance to criticize Trump’s character. DeSantis attempted to navigate the query, prompting Collins to interrupt him and emphasize her point.
The Trump campaign seized upon the interview’s outcome, releasing a lengthy statement that began with an oddly provocative summary, accompanied by screen captures of critical tweets targeting DeSantis. The statement, titled “DeSanctus Campaign Gets Spanked on CNN,” portrayed the interview as emblematic of DeSantis’s lackluster campaign, using vivid language to depict his perceived discomfort during the exchange with Collins.
The statement further described DeSantis’s alleged nervous gestures and emphasized his seeming diminutive posture in comparison to Collins, invoking an analogy likening him to a child being scolded by his mother. The rhetoric employed underscored the narrative of a purportedly unsuccessful interview, with the Trump campaign’s message amplifying the portrayal of the event as a significant setback for DeSantis.
DeSanctus Campaign Gets Spanked on CNN
“In an inexplicable decision, Ron DeSanctimonious showed up on CNN last night for an interview that turned into a microcosm of his entire campaign thus far—uninspiring, pathetic, short-sighted, and embarrassing.
Things got so bad that DeSanctus bobbed his head around, nervously fidgeted, and wildly flailed his arms as he realized the interview was not what he or his team had expected.
It also didn’t help that Ron was sitting so low in his chair that he resembled a child looking up at his mother as he was getting thoroughly spanked.
It was so uneventful that even his political operation Always Back Down decided to tweet about football instead of the embarrassing trainwreck on CNN.
Moreover, the statement referenced the latest Texas poll, indicating a considerable disparity between DeSantis and Trump in terms of public support, further emphasizing the perceived challenges faced by DeSantis in his political endeavors, particularly within the state of Texas.
Kaitlan Collins is a good 6 inches taller than Desantis pic.twitter.com/e5j2WTURD2
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) October 27, 2023
Ron’s interview was so shitty your boss is watching the Bills game instead. https://t.co/pG44mMRLXp pic.twitter.com/EWa5Tsd04i
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 27, 2023
