Or possibly a man!
I trust you’re as prurient as I am and are wondering what Trump said about DeSantis when he popped like popcorn yesterday. I have ascertained what it was that he said. It’s a classic of trumpery.
Breaking his silence on Donald Trump’s legal troubles, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday criticized the Manhattan district attorney who is pursuing charges against the former president and vowed his office would not be involved if the matter trickles into Trump’s adopted home state.
But DeSantis, a rising rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, stopped well short of offering support for the former president and instead seemed to poke fun at the situation Trump has found himself in as he attempts a political comeback and a third campaign for the White House. A grand jury is in the final stages of determining whether Trump should face charges over an alleged payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels related to a supposed affair.
“I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair,” DeSantis said as laughter broke out at a news conference in Panama City, Florida. “I just, I can’t speak to that.”
Laughter!! How could they laugh?!! This must not go unavenged.
The dismissive quips traveled quickly across the state to Mar-a-Lago, where Trump has decamped while he awaits for word on the New York grand jury’s findings. His allies immediately started attacking DeSantis across social media, suggesting he would face a political price for failing to recognize Republicans are rallying around Trump amid his mounting legal threats.
Trump responded in a statement posted to his social media site, Truth Social, leveling a series of personal attacks against DeSantis.
“Ron DeSanctimonious will probably find out about FALSE ACCUSATIONS & FAKE STORIES sometime in the future, as he gets older, wiser, and better known, when he’s unfairly and illegally attacked by a woman, even classmates that are ‘underage’ (or possibly a man!). I’m sure he will want to fight these misfits just like I do!” Trump wrote.
That’s dignified! That’s not childish at all! That doesn’t sound a bit like a nine-year-old boy losing his temper at snack time.
I will accept that Trump got older (nothing much in that, we all do) and, unfortunately, better known. But wiser? Hah! Although, since he identifies as a stable genius, I suppose I need to accept that he’s a stable genius, right? Because toddlers know themselves better than anyone else…and he is definitely at the mental age of a toddler.
Oh come on, ‘Ron DeSanctimonious’ is funny.
Coming from someone who’s morals are such that everyone appears sanctimonious.
Trump’s ‘The Art of War on Misfits’ coming to a bookstore near you.
DeSanctimonious is an odd choice of nickname by Trump, because he usually sticks to the rule that everything should be targeted at about a fourth grade reading level. (Not because Trump himself is dumb, or even that his voters are dumber than the average voter — I think he just believes, possibly correctly, that’s good marketing.) “Crooked Hillary,” “Sleepy Joe Biden,” “Lil’ Marco,” “Lyin’ Ted Cruz,” etc. Everything is “huge” or “bigly,” and either the best or the worst thing ever. “Sanctimonious” is a pretty advanced vocabulary word by those standards.
Someone pointed out that “RINO DeSantis” is right there waiting to be used.
And, of course, the probability that T***p came up with the word ‘sanctimonious’ all by himself is approximately zero. And you can scratch out ‘approximately’.
In the annals of nit-pickery,
Is it just me?
You can “wait for word” on something, or you can “await word” on something, but isn’t it wrong to “await for word” on something?
Maddog, I I think you’re right. I didn’t notice as I was reading it, because I was distracted by what I thought was the flagrant misuse of “decamped”.
Maddog, Catwhisperer,
Not if you say it with an Appalachian accent. (Language nerd note: the a- before certain verb forms in some dialects of English is the last reflex of the old y- prefix, as in yclept. It’s cognate with the German verbal prefix ge-.)
And while I’m falling down an etymological rabbit hole, the history of wait and await is fascinating. Both came into English from French (so the a- in await isn’t the same a- in, say, “I’m a-talking here”), but wait entered French from Germanic, and it’s cognate with watch.