What's up with the Trump-DeSantis "feud"?

[allegorical oracle]

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Strikes me as being about as genuine as a wrestling match. Supposing that TFG is setting up the Gov as his future Veep. In the meantime, Gov runs for another wrecking ball term in Tallahassee. If Gov becomes TFG's White House sidekick, he's perfectly positioned for a 2028 run... or to become POTUS if TFG kicks the bucket.

Currently, they're obviously cross-roughing the vax issue: TFG pleases moderate Repugs with his new pro-vax stance while Gov keeps the anti-vaxxers happy. Their faux feud garners publicity for them both.

CORRECTION: Typed Greenwald instead of the correct name: Greenberg.

[2naSalit]

1. They have to keep the cameras on themselves...

A phony feud will do for the election season.

[dalton99a]

16. +1. It is bullshit

[Vinca]

2. The way I understand it, DeSantis isn't willing to bow and scrape when the Orange King calls.

He demands to be a lunatic in his own right.

[NanceGreggs]

3. Trump won't be running in 2024 ...

... so his choice of "future Veep" - real or imagined - is of no consequence whatsoever.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. Very curious why are you sure?

[NanceGreggs]

22. Because ...

... if he runs in 2024 and loses (which he would), it would tend to confirm that despite his protestations, he also lost in 2020.

His ego can't handle that. He will go to his grave insisting that 2020 was "stolen" from him - and he will never risk having to let go of that narrative. Even he knows that "they stole it from me TWICE" won't be believed by even his staunchest supporters.

There are other reasons he won't run - but that's one of the bigliest.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. That's an interesting theory! And if he doesn't, can't

see his ego wanting anyone else to win either. For prez, that is. That way he can still be the de facto leader without being prez.

My theory *was* that he is bored now and he has to have a new mountain to climb. Picture him in Mara Lago having long phone conversations with his "advisors" who are saying.... "You can't win with only those crazies. Cut them off - they have nowhere to go. Remember you invented the vaccine! Take credit for that and you can offset any crazy votes lost by moderating and winning back the suburbs."

[Crazyleftie]

26. The biggest reason is to avoid jail!!!!!

[Walleye]

4. Someone should ask him what he would've done in Pence's place Jan 6

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. He'd have to say "NOT follow the constitution" ey? Because

He was quoted in that article yesterday, by a source, as saying he wasn't worried about pence in 2024, because pence had followed the constitution.

[snowybirdie]

5. I believe

Candidates running for Pres and VP on same ticket can't be from same state.

[Captain Zero]

15. This

Candidates for President and VP can't be from the same state. It's in the constitution. Of course,.maybe Trump will be living on Elba by 2024.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. Great point... First I've thought about it.

[Phoenix61]

6. It's what happens when two narcissists want the same thing.

I’m looking forward to the show. Trump can’t keep his mouth shut and DeSatan seems unable to ignore him.

[Midnight Writer]

17. Exactly. There's only room for one tiger on the mountain.

[Crazyleftie]

7. Trump sees him as competition in 2024

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. And not sympatico if he's trying to get credit and glorify

himself that HE invented the vaccine. Strikes me it would be hard for even trump to word salad his way out of that one. But what crazy repuke is pro-vaccine?

[Lovie777]

8. Testosterone . . ..

I wouldn't call them Alpha's because both are extremely cowards but this remind me male dominates in the animal kingdom.

[Celerity]

10. Bully Betas

[MoonRiver]

11. I doubt that Chumpy has any left.

[zuul]

9. They have always hated each other but kept it

quiet because they needed something from each other.

Now that they both seem to want the puke nod for the 2024 presidential election campaign, they’re finding it harder to play nice.

Plus they’re both raging narcissists.

[Chainfire]

12. The only difference in the two is that DeSantis has a brain.

That makes him more dangerous. They are scrapping because DeSantis has the audacity to place himself as a potential rival to Trump.

I don't think that DeSantis is looking for the number two spot on the ticket. While I certainly consider him to be a #2 man, the #2 has nothing to do with his political ranking.

We better be nice to both of them, one of them is likely to be our next CEO.

[Wounded Bear]

13. DeSantis know politics in ways trump never did. He is scary...nt

[tanyev]

14. I think DeSantis and his supporters have violated Donny's First Commandment:

Thou shalt have no other tyrants before MEEEEEEE!

[Mr. Ected]

21. Whatever trickery they're into, one thing's for certain:

DeSantis goes nowhere if Trump doesn't kiss his ring.

Trump don't kiss rings.

[Tommy Carcetti]

25. It's real and a product of the Former Office Occupant's narcissism.

He simply cannot and will not stand for the idea that the Republican Party be about anything or anyone other than himself.

And unless he is dead or in prison in 2024, he has every intention of running for the Republican nomination and fully expects everyone else to defer and get out of the way for him. Including Ron DeSantis, who in Trump's mind, he "created."

Loyalty is a one-way street for Trump. Never, ever forget that.

And the fact that DeSantis has gathered a rather vocal following in and of itself is forever going to be a sore spot for Trump's ego.

As for the idea of DeSantis as Trump's VP nominee, unless Trump is willing to renounce his Florida citizenship (or somehow DeSantis bizarrely is willing to do so), that won't happen. The Constitution would require any electoral votes to be forfeited from a state where both the Presidential and Vice Presidential nominees are from the same state, and nobody's stupid enough to throw away 29 electoral votes like that.

The rivalry is real and it will only get uglier. Both men are terrible, terrible choices, although I will long maintain that DeSantis is more Nixonian in his leadership style than he is Trumpian. Not that that's a good thing, mind you.