Casey DeSantis’ dreams of morphing into Melania Trump have been prematurely aborted
Melania Trump have officially gone up in smoke.“It’s clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance,” the gay-hating governor said in a gloomy video posted to social media yesterday. “They watched his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance, and they see Democrats using lawfare to this day to attack him.”DeSantis ended his message by endorsing Trump for president and slamming the only other candidate left in the field, Nikki Haley, by calling her a “repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism.” Meow.Subscribe to our daily newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.His exit from the race came just two days before the New Hampshire primary, where he was expected to come in a very distant third.Mrs.
DeSantis was her husband’s biggest cheerleader throughout his approximately eight months on the presidential campaign trail, during which he and his PAC somehow managed to burn through a reported $100 million and walk away with virtually nothing to show for it, aside from 23,420 votes in the Iowa primary. (We did the math, and that means DeSantis spent approximately $4,269.85 per vote.)She accompanied him on his most awkward campaign stops (like his trip to a rural baseball field in Iowa), embarrassed herself in interviews (like the time she encouraged people to commit voter fraud or the time she tried to say being nicknamed “Walmart Melania” was actually a compliment), recorded that deeply homophobic ad in which she alluded to gay groomers coming for America’s children, and even claimed to have knocked on over 3 million doors begging people to vote for her husband.Speaking of the “Walmart Melania” moniker, which stems from a Daily Beast column titled “Casey DeSantis Is the Walmart Melania” and published last summer, Mrs.
