Ron DeSanctimonious’ bid for the Oval Office blew up on the launch pad
Bradley Blankenship is an American journalist, columnist and political commentator. He has a syndicated column at CGTN and is a freelance reporter for international news agencies including Xinhua News Agency.
Bradley Blankenship is an American journalist, columnist and political commentator. He has a syndicated column at CGTN and is a freelance reporter for international news agencies including Xinhua News Agency.
@BradBlank_ © CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced his 2024 bid for president of the United States on Wednesday, immediately spawning criticism from the left, right, and center. The anti-woke warrior’s Twitter Space announcement, which is rightly seen as an absolute dud, has been described by major publications as a and a The official event on Twitter was so fraught with technical issues that the hashtag #failuretolaunch made the rounds on the site. People kept hearing insane microphone feedback and the whole space cut out intermittently. Elon Musk, who was hosting the space, said this was a but most intelligent people would agree that this shows extraordinary levels of ineptitude by the DeSantis campaign and also by Twitter. Eventually, the space was moved over to mega-donor David Sacks’ account due to the roughly 24 minutes of non-stop glitches. Read more The announcement was so bad that the Trump campaign immediately made memes out of it. They posted a video depicting a rocket with a Ron DeSantis campaign logo (which was eerily similar to failed Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s) exploding during takeoff, poking fun both at Musk and DeSantis in one fell swoop. The team also posted a video on Instagram making fun of the announcement itself, with apparent AI/dubs of DeSantis and Musk sharing the space with the likes of George Soros, Klaus Schwab, Dick Cheney, the Devil, Adolf Hitler, and the FBI. As someone who absolutely despises Donald Trump, as well as Ron DeSanctimonious, as the former president calls him, I do have to give Trump credit for absolutely obliterating his opponent. Policy aside, one must be amazed at how ‘The Donald’ has already given his biggest challenger a hilarious nickname and mocked everyone under the Sun all at once while being receptive to social media trends. I must admit that I actually lost it when the ‘FBI’ said on the fake Twitter Space, Read more The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.
