The Trump campaign and MAGA world on Saturday blasted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for remarks appearing to label some of the former president’s supporters “listless vessels.”
“DeSantis goes full-blown Hillary and call[s] MAGA supporters ‘Listless Vessels,’” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung wrote on X, referring to a DeSantis interview with The Florida Standard in which the GOP presidential candidate stated that a strong conservative movement needed to be based on principles.
“A movement can’t be about the personality of one individual,” DeSantis said. “If all we are is listless vessels that’s just supposed to follow, you know, whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that’s not going to be a durable movement.”
A Trump-aligned super PAC also blasted DeSantis’ statement.
“To Hillary Clinton, Trump supporters are ‘deplorables.’ To Ron DeSantis, they are ‘listless vessels.’ The truth is, Trump supporters are patriots,” MAGA, Inc. spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. “DeSantis must immediately apologize for his disgraceful insult.”
“Looks like Ron DeSanctimonious just had his ‘Basket of Deplorables’ moment,” said Trump adviser Jason Miller.
The statements’ reference to Clinton alludes to an episode during the 2016 election when the former Democratic nominee called supporters of Trump “deplorables” that were motivated by “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic” feelings. After blowback from Trump, she later walked back those comments, saying that she was referring to his campaign rhetoric and not his supporters.
In a response posted to X, DeSantis campaign press secretary Bryan Griffin said the governor’s comment was aimed at Trump and his congressional allies.
“The dishonest media refuses to report the facts — Donald Trump and some congressional endorsers are “listless vessels.” Why? Because Trump and DC insiders feel he is entitled to your vote,” Griffin wrote.
“DeSantis must immediately apologize for his disgraceful insult.”
Haha coming from the ‘fuck your feelings’-crowd, fucking snowflakes.
The truth is, Trump supporters and DeSantis supporters are a bunch of wimpy fascists, and should meet in (…I don’t know, how about…) Jacksonville this coming Wednesday for a big dick-chopping contest. Whoever chops the most dicks off of the opposing side wins a prize.
Marjorie would win
Thank God we Jews have that space laser!Uh, I mean… oy vey!
👀
I like the cut of your jib.
He’s an absolute twat and a Nazi, but maga are empty vessels…
You know what they say about broken clocks
They’re all fascists? Because every time I’ve heard anyone talk about broken clocks in the last seven or eight years, they’re all fascist broken clocks.
TIL clocks are fascists. Support freedom by abolishing time!!! /s
Something something easier to blow up trains than make them run on a clock.
Time is a fake, capitalist convention, so /s
That its useless and not insightful analysis?
Which “he”?
Can you find one that it wouldn’t apply to?
“A movement can’t be about the personality of one individual,” Desantis said
Desantis is a POS but he’s not wrong here
* “Unless they follow me,” DeSantis added quietly under his breath. “Then it’s okay.”
The truth is trump supporters are shockingly gullible and traitorous.
Absolute lack of self awareness. Like, what does it mean if the criticism is coming from both the left and now the right about how blind the loyalty is to this orange fascist? They’re desperate to link DeSantis and Hillary, but don’t you think DeSantis also stands to benefit from conservatives’ blind loyalty. When even he is trying to be the wake up call, and they reject it… Good God.
There is no way I can see DeSantis winning this primary.
He’s got the votes of the incels who are threatened by Disney because it’s girly. He’s stolen some child-molester votes from Trump with his anti-LGBT+ stuff. It’s not clear anyone will ever vote for him who ever had consensual sex.
Ehn. I don’t think that’ll be enough. Trump does a far better job at courting those voters. He’s done fuck all in his war against Disney too other than criticize them. And sure theres plenty to hate disney for but dude hasnt done anything.
Scary that, depending on the poll, he’s 46 to 48 points behind Trump and he’s in the #2 slot…
There’s not really a republican figure who can challenge trump currently running. I think the only conservative who can realistically beat him would be Manchin, and hes a democrat.
“To Hillary Clinton, Trump supporters are ‘deplorables.’ To Ron DeSantis, they are ‘listless vessels.’"
That’s maybe a little unfair, they’re just simple farmers. People of the land. The common clay of the new West, you know…
Oops All Haters!
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I can’t get past his cowboy boots 🥾
Wait till you get load of his rubbet boots! Google “Desantis, white boots”
Wow
I know, right! There are some hooker/thigh-high versions out there too!
Fuck the republican traitor filth.
