{"id":2395,"date":"2023-03-31T12:54:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T17:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2023-03-31T12:54:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T17:54:25","slug":"trump-desantis-would-be-pizza-guy-without-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2395","title":{"rendered":"Trump: DeSantis Would Be Pizza Guy Without Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Monday evening, 45th President Donald Trump was interviewed by&nbsp;<em>Fox News<\/em>\u2018s Sean Hannity in a lengthy interview that covered the war in Ukraine, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL), and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A notable segment of the interview included a discussion around Trump\u2019s endorsement of Ron DeSantis in the 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Hannity asked about what happened to Trump\u2019s relationship with DeSantis, the Republican frontrunner explained that DeSantis and him weren\u2019t \u201cfriends\u201d but that DeSantis was one of many who defended him while in Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump went on to explain the story behind his endorsement of the then-congressman during the Republican gubernatorial primary in which the Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam was leading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeSantis was \u201cno Jim Jordan\u2026I had a lot of people that really defended me great. But he was good and he defended me. So all of a sudden he is running for governor,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe announced he was running for governor and he wanted my support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"President Trump Says He Saved Ron DeSantis&amp;apos; Campaign with Endorsement\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v2ckpr4\/#?secret=Tpe497EhuA\" data-secret=\"Tpe497EhuA\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"President Trump Says He Saved Ron DeSantis&amp;apos; Campaign with Endorsement\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v2ckpr4\/#?secret=Tpe497EhuA\" data-secret=\"Tpe497EhuA\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump explained that he didn\u2019t know Adam Putnam, but he did know that DeSantis regularly defended him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo what happened with Ron is the following. He came to see me, he was getting killed, he was getting crushed. Adam Putnam, it was over. I had many people who I know who worked for Adam Putnam,\u201d Trump explained. \u201cIt was like\u2026a nuclear weapon went off when you endorsed because they considered the race to be over. They had the race. He had millions and millions of dollars and he was way up in the polls. He was beating Ron by 30 points or something. It was over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRon came to see me, tears in his eyes, and said \u2018I need you to do me a big favor,&#8217;\u201d Trump said, adding that the then-congressman then asked for his endorsement. Trump then went on to explain that he didn\u2019t think that his endorsement could save DeSantis\u2019 campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI gave him a great endorsement. From the moment I pressed that button, he blew the guy away. The race was over,\u201d Trump stated, adding that if DeSantis hadn\u2019t gotten his endorsement, \u201che could have never gotten the nomination. He would be working in either a pizza parlor place or a law office right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump then went on to explain how he rallied behind DeSantis in order to get him over the finish line against Andrew Gillum (D-FL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeSantis won the Florida Republican gubernatorial primary with 56.5 percent of the vote compared to Adam Putnam\u2019s 36.5 percent, per\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Florida_gubernatorial_and_lieutenant_gubernatorial_election,_2018_(August_28_Republican_primary)\" target=\"_blank\">Ballotpedia<\/a>. The Florida Republican would then go on to win the governor\u2019s mansion with the slimmest of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/election-results\/2018\/florida\/governor\/\" target=\"_blank\">margins<\/a>\u00a0with 49.6 percent of the vote compared to Democrat Andrew Gillum\u2019s 49.2 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/dcenquirer.com\/watch-president-trump-says-desantis-would-be-working-in-a-pizza-parlor-without-his-endorsement\/\">https:\/\/dcenquirer.com\/watch-president-trump-says-desantis-would-be-working-in-a-pizza-parlor-without-his-endorsement\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday evening, 45th President Donald Trump was interviewed by&nbsp;Fox News\u2018s Sean Hannity in a lengthy interview that covered the war in Ukraine, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL), and much more. A notable segment of the interview included a discussion around Trump\u2019s endorsement of Ron DeSantis in the 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary in Florida. When Hannity asked about what happened to Trump\u2019s relationship with DeSantis, the Republican frontrunner explained that DeSantis and him weren\u2019t \u201cfriends\u201d but that DeSantis was one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}