HEADLINE: Donald Trump says Donald Trump's a blithering idiot

Donald Trump hasn't hesitated in dishonestly criticizing Gov. Ron DeSantis. I'm not certain if Mr. Trump realizes it yet but his criticisms of Gov. DeSantis' Florida make Trump a blithering idiot. According to this Trump Campaign email, Trump is a blithering idiot.

According to the Trump Campaign email, "Under Ron DeSantis, Florida has become among the worst states… to live… find economic opportunity… work… retire… raise a family… pay taxes…be safe… rent a home… have a baby… afford energy… die… be a teacher… be a doctor… be a police officer." In the past, I've said that some of the things Trump's said were gross exaggerations. This email isn't a gross exaggeration. It's a mean-spirited lie. This email is unworthy of a presidential campaign. I don't even expect lies this disgusting from Joe Biden. Anyone that's followed this blog knows how much it takes for me to say that

If Florida is so bad, Mr. President, why'd you move the Trump Corporation and the Trump family from New York to Florida after Gov. DeSantis became governor? That's the definition of stupid.

I didn't realize it at the time but when I wrote this article about how different 2016 Trump was from 2024 Trump is, the biggest difference is Trump's dishonesty and mean-spiritedness this time. The first ballots haven't been cast yet but I wouldn't be surprised if Evangelical Christians might get turned off by Trump's prevarications.

In terms of dishonesty, there isn't much difference between Trump, Mayorkas and Biden. I don't trust any of them. It's just that I didn't expect honesty from Biden or Mayorkas. I expected, to borrow a phrase from the late, great Rush Limbaugh, Trump to occasionally swerve into the truth. I didn't expect that of Biden and Mayorkas. Then there's this:

Ken Cuccinelli, the founder of the pro-DeSantis SuperPAC titled Never Back Down, sat for an interview with MTP's Chuck Todd. Let's start by saying that Todd, for the most part, behaved himself. Next, let's say that Mr. Cuccinelli calmly and impressively sliced Trump to ribbons, calling Trump "undisciplined, irritating, childish and petulant. Here's that interview:

Honestly, Trump isn't the candidate he was in 2016. 2024 Trump is undisciplined, mean-spirited and petulant. In 2016, Trump had nicknames like Little Marco, Lying Ted and Low Energy Jeb. Back then, those nicknames worked. Thus far, Trump's name-calling against Gov. DeSantis haven't laid a glove on DeSantis. It isn't a stretch to think that the gap will close between Trump and DeSantis when DeSantis gains on Trump in name recognition.

Cuccinelli said something worth thinking about when he said this:

These candidates are going to be more and more omnipresent in Americans' lives and history shows that when Donald Trump is omnipresent, his undisciplined, irritating and his backwards-focused, childish, petulant name-calling wears people down. He will lose them. That's where Ron DeSantis' track record of steadiness and leadership and fighting for things that matter will really come into play and he will win those people over.
There are some Trump supporters who won't leave him. Period. Full stop. Aside from those supporters, though, there are some Trump-loving people who can see his faults and who won't defend the indefensible. Those that won't defend the indefensible are potential DeSantis supporters.

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