Gov. Ron DeSantis’s campaign team took a cheap shot at former President Donald Trump that sparked waves of reactions on social media, with very few taking the time to actually listen to the alleged insult of his supporters.
“Trump says you’re a loser if you expected him to get Mexico to pay for ‘a piece of the wall,'” the DeSantis War Room tweeted on Sunday with an accompanying clip of Trump speaking about his efforts as president to deal with Mexico over the border issue.
Trump says you’re a loser if you expected him to get Mexico to pay for “a piece of the wall.” pic.twitter.com/d4LoKJwsN2
— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) October 29, 2023
The clip and its dig set off a stampede on X where users bashed Trump and huffed about being insulted as a “loser.” The reactions online were a dream come true for the DeSantis team as Trump was slammed as a traitor to his base and the video was shared repeatedly.
MAGA, he’s calling you losers for believing him, just saying. You trusted him; that doesn’t mean you’re a loser, it means he is
— Judy Keen, #TeamSanity, #DeSantis2024 (@jkzoie) October 29, 2023
Calling his voters losers is really demeaning and sad. Wow!!
— Carolina Castillo (@CaroCastilloCC) October 30, 2023
It was literally a campaign promise.
Calling people who believed your promises “losers” is the most absurd campaign strategy I’ve seen yet. https://t.co/x2CoZqSHmP
— Paul Herrin (@pushingback_pod) October 30, 2023
It was literally a campaign promise.
Calling people who believed your promises “losers” is the most absurd campaign strategy I’ve seen yet. https://t.co/x2CoZqSHmP
— Paul Herrin (@pushingback_pod) October 30, 2023
But somewhere in the cacophony online, some users were calling out the DeSantis team for the out-of-context clip and for not actually following what Trump was saying.
“So with all those losers out there that say ‘Trump never got the – ‘ you remember I used to say Mexico would pay for a piece of the wall…I’d say the wall gets higher. We all had a lot of fun, but I said Mexico will pay for a piece of the wall,” Trump said in the clip.
“But there was no legal instrument to do that,” he added as the clip ended.
Why don’t you show the whole clip? Might learn something….#ContextMatters!!! pic.twitter.com/khVporftFm
— 🇺🇲🩸🔗Cuffed🔗🩸🇺🇲 (@Handcuffed_Maga) October 30, 2023
Many X users who actually watched the portion used in the DeSantis tweet were able to follow Trump’s train of thought and what he actually said. Many began to push back on the deceptive attack, noting Trump’s original border wall promises and the fact that he was not calling his supporters losers but those who mocked his promises and doubted his threats.
What a bullshit edit of the speech. So desperate and disingenuous
— Davinci (@Davinci98876824) October 30, 2023
Trump has specifically called for taxing remittances to Mexico many times to fund the Wall and there was even a bill for it in 2017
Ron DeSantis failed to support that bill when he was in Congress
Why does DeSantis and his grifters lie so much?
— 4mangang (@VbForeman) October 30, 2023
If you 🤥🤥 didn’t try to take everything out context and stop being so left about hating the only President that kept you out of war and had the best economy but you can’t because you’re so lost with TDS
— Michelle (@gobblyguts) October 30, 2023
😂 simple, the losers he’s referring to, are the people who didn’t believe him when he said he’d have Mexico pay for the wall. He had Mexico pay for military security while border wall installation was taking place. 24k Mexican soldiers were provided by the Mexican government.
— AI4Ever (@AIforEVAH) October 30, 2023
You ARE a loser…cutting and interpreting this to fit your narrative. He said you’re a loser if you think Mexico didn’t pay for the wall by providing troops and securing our border. Do you DENY our border was 100x more secure under Trump than under Biden??????
— David McCann (@RedShadowZzz) October 30, 2023
Absolutely anyone with a brain -okay-the majority of people knew Trump was talking about tariffs and trade agreements when he made that comment. Taken IN CONTEXT, we knew he was going to renegotiate our trade agreements and essentially Mexico was going to pay. He did, they did.
— Bellawoodburn (@Bellawoodburny1) October 30, 2023
Everyone retweeting this is a Democrat. DeSantis should be ashamed of himself
— publius (@correctthemedia) October 30, 2023
He literally says he made them pay by providing 28k military to stop migration.
Stop spreading fake news.
— History now (@hillary_history) October 30, 2023
