Jeez. Trump can’t even subjunctive.
“If I didn’t endorse him [DeSantis], he wouldn’t have won,” Trump told the New Yorker, which published an in-depth story profiling DeSantis’s rise.
Tsssss. No no NO. “If I hadn’t endorsed him, he wouldn’t have won.”
Anyway, the point is, the repellent governor of Florida Ron DeSantis is getting too much attention for Trump’s liking, so he very naturally announces that that attention is all thanks to him, the great and powerful Oz.
The governor’s rising star and declining interest in hanging out with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, are fuelling resentment among the former president’s inner circle. One Republican political consultant told the New Yorker, “Trump World is working overtime to find ways to burn DeSantis down. They really hate him.”
Good. Do this. Burn each other down.
Trump said much the same when asked for his thoughts on the 43-year-old governor running for the White House during a phone interview with the rightwing TV station Newsmax on Monday.
“I have a good relationship with Ron, I don’t know that he wants to run. I haven’t seen that. You’re telling me something that I’ve not seen, so we’ll see what happens,” he said. “But no, I was very responsible for getting him elected.”
Trump always says much the same. Always. It’s one of the many obvious signs of his mental vacancy.
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And when he stumbles, or crosses Trump, Trump will be the first to declare he’d known he was a loser and a hack from the start. Much as he did with most of his cabinet secretaries, forgetting between hiring them and firing them that he’d given them the posts in the first place.
How fun it must be to be part of that clique.
Probably very much like Bjarte Foshaug’s description of Maoist purges, but with a lower body count.
At least he didn’t say “If I wouldn’t have endorsed him…”.
Gotta kneecap him before he trashes the 2024 Dem nominee I guess… but he’s not wrong, DeSantis is very much planning on being in the Oval Office as of 1/20/2025, presumably hoping Trump won’t be a factor (not unlikely).
Poor, poor subjunctive. It’s such a useful mode, too.
“the great and powerful Oz” — Ozymandias, more like!
Nullius,
It’s a mood, not a mode. As in, “I’m feeling very subjunctive today.”
Insert ‘let them fight’ meme here.