Man, Trump is having a hard time.
Now, he read a glowing profile that the New York Post penned in
regard to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
And he didn't like it.
And he's getting more and more belligerent in his attacks against the DeSantis which
we'll get to in just a moment.
But to be fair to Trump,
the New York Post piece on DeSantis was definitely a puff piece.
It was incredible.
I'm gonna read you a few excerpts before we get to Trump's reaction to it.
Salina Zito who wrote the piece writes that DeSantis narrowly won his first run
for governor in 2018, but became the shining beacon for Republicans in
the party's otherwise underwhelming performance in the 2022 midterms.
She continues to write, he has done so by publicly tangling with Disney over
their condemnation of the Florida State legislature's "Parental Rights
in Education" bill, dubbed the "Don't say Gay" bill by critics, and
managing to clean up after the devastation or
managing the cleanup after the devastation of Hurricane Ian.
And then she writes, even President Biden was forced to admit
DeSantis's emergency efforts were remarkable, okay?
The entire piece also tries to paint DeSantis as this
blue collar warrior, he worked his way through college,
paying his own way when he was going to Yale and all of that.
They did also ask DeSantis about Trump in the piece.
Selena Zito writes, now, he is giving Trump a run for his money in nearly every
national and state poll about a possible presidential run.
He is also leading over Biden in a head-to-head match-up.
Asked if the name on his high school locker was ever changed
to the DeSanctimonious,
the derisive nickname bestowed upon him by Donald Trump, he laughs.
Quote, no, there weren't enough letters to be able to do that.
I don't know if anyone even can spell that.
Got him, got him, okay, so we're gonna get to Trump in just a minute.
But, man, what stands out to me right?
Aside from the Trump DeSantis feud is how right wing media just
comes together in an effort to prop up one candidate, and in this case it's DeSantis.
>> This piece was hilarious guys, I almost want you to read this New York Post piece
so you can see what propaganda looks like, it's like a perfect definition.
Everything as Anna said was glowing about DeSantis, but even the pictures.
>> I know. >> Like cute little kid with a fish that
he called- >> Baby pictures of him yes-
>> Maybe people's, right?
>> Yep.
>> And then him swinging like he's making mantle on the Yales team, right?
Probably had a ball that he whiffed on, anyway-
>> Some wedding pictures.
>> Wedding which him in the military uniform twice.
>> Yeah.
Right?
>> Yeah. Everything was like glowing his heroic
nature, earned praise even from Biden.
He was forced to give him that praise.
Forced?
Biden loves Republicans.
Crazy Republicans 24/7, any given opportunity is like,
my Republican friends are not working with them.
So pure hilarious propaganda.
But that isn't the interesting part, right wing media does propaganda for a living.
And remember we just found out from Rupert Murdoch,
the leaked emails and texts that he told the CEO Fox news,
make sure that you help the Republicans win the Georgia senate seats.
So they definitely have an agenda and
their news division definitely propels that agenda.
Not just their opinion folks in New York Post owned by Murdoch is saying that
they're declaring very forcefully in this article, war for DeSantis and
against Trump.
>> Yeah, absolutely.
They're putting their thumb on the scale.
With all that said, why don't we go to Trump's reaction to the New York Post,
which was actually pretty impressive.
Because he managed to mention Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, like what?
None of those people were mentioned, the New York Post piece.
But nonetheless, he writes, in writer Selena Zito's Fake News puff piece
about DeSantis, which supposedly appeared in the dying New York Post.
What do you mean supposedly appeared?
You read it.
[LAUGH] >> It definetly appeared.
We all saw it.
>> Which is way down in readership, just like FoxNews is way down in Ratings,
why doesn't she mention that he wants to cut Social Security & Medicare,
loves losers like Jeb Bush,
Paul Ryan, and Karl Rove, and is getting CLOBBERED in the polls by me.
Is he?
DeSantis is a RINO who is trying to hide his past.
I don't read the New York Post anymore.
It has become Fake News, just like Fox & WSJ.
[LAUGH] So, I mean, it was a puff piece though.
>> Yeah. >> It was.
And look Trump of course listed all these people who
he has had spats with in the past.
Of course we learned of those messages that Murdoch was sending to
other executives over at Fox in regard to Trump and his election lies.
So he's probably super salty about that.
But we're also learning a lot about DeSantis from a new Washington Post piece.
That kind of gives you a timeline regarding his lack of
support toward Trump, then support toward Trump
once he felt that it would be politically advantageous to suck up to him.
And now all of a sudden DeSantis is wiping the Internet of that embarrassing ad
where he was sucking up to Donald Trump in the 2018 election for Governor.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. >> By the way, Ron we got news for you.
We've got it saved.
>> Yeah.
>> Everyone has it saved.
You're not gonna be able to wipe the Internet of anything let alone
a political ad you ran in Florida.
So first shocking turn of events for the first time ever,
Donald Trump is right about a puff piece and fake news.
It is fake news.
It's not like every part of it was us kissing towards Ron DeSantis.
It did not give us full record.
It had no critique of him whatsoever.
It was hilarious.
>> Zero critique.
>> Right?
And, I mean it would take things like he went to Yale and said,
made it turn it into, and he worked at an electrical wiring place,
like the blue collar guy that he is.
And then they explained, it was a summer job, right?
Before he went to Yale.
Instead of saying like he got like a Rando
summer job- >> Yeah.
>> Before going to an elite school, they made it seem like a blue collar guy.
>> No, but guys, this is that's important to focus on, because look,
the New York Post and
right wing media, they know what made Trump appealing to the base.
And it was the honestly hollow, empty talking points that made it appear as
though he was some sort of economic populist.
Someone who actually understood the economic frustrations of
ordinary blue collar americans.
That's why they're trying to paint Ron DeSantis that way,
even though there's really no indication that that's the case.
Ron DeSantis went to elite schools.
He's an elite politician serving as Governor in Florida.
And look, it doesn't even matter what his background is, what does we advocate for?
And Trump is also correct about he'd wanna cut Social Security and Medicare.
There's no question about that.
And to Trump's credit, for everything that he's done and everything that he said that
I can't stand him for, he did say don't touch Medicare and
Social Security, that's gonna hurt the Republican party.
>> Yeah, whether he actually means it when he gets in office is a different question.
But at least he said it, which is better than a lot of Republicans.
So, we're the fairest show in America.
We hate Donald Trump for
good reasons they explain and we explain policywise why we do, right?
But when he's right, we have no problem saying that he's right about something.
So, and in fact by the way, I would, if you said to me right now pick DeSantis or
Trump, I would pick DeSantis to win the Republican primary.
But nonetheless, Trump is right about this, okay?
And why did he mention randomly Paul Ryan and Karl Rove?
Because Paul Ryan is on the board of FoxNews,
Karl Rove is a contributor to FoxNews.
And so is he right that Wall Street Journal,
New York Post, and FoxNews are against him?
Yes, Rupert Murdoch owns all three and
he's clearly going to war against Donald Trump.
So he's right to point out.
And in the case of Murdoch that's fake news, is his bread and butter.
That's all he's ever done is fake news.
That was the whole point of FoxNews.
New York Post last we checked in loses $50 million a year, every year, and he
does that anyway to do propaganda pieces like this for politicians that he favors.
He used to favor donald Trump, now he's favoring around DeSantis.
And so this war between Murdoch and Trump is winner take all.
>> It's delicious.
>> And it's amazing and it's really important for
the future of this country as to who wins.
And but nonetheless, even though in this case I want Murdoch's guy over Trump,
Murdoch is the guilty one in this equation,
cuz he's putting out total drivel.
>> Yeah.
>> And attacking Trump who he loved before when he was giving him trillions of
dollars in tax cuts.
>> We see his thumb, we see where it is.
>> Yes. >> It's on the scale.