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DeSantis underwhelms Britain’s business chiefs
Right_in_Virginia:
DeSantis underwhelms Britain’s business chiefs
UK captains of industry lambast ‘low-wattage’ US presidential hopeful.
Politico EU, Apr 29, 2023
LONDON — He hopes to win the hearts and minds of devoted Donald Trump supporters ahead of next year’s U.S. election.
But Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis failed to impress British business chiefs at a high-profile London event Friday, in a tired performance described variously as “horrendous,” “low-wattage” and “like the end of an overseas trip.”
The Florida governor, expected to launch his bid next month to challenge Trump as the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential race, met with more than 50 representatives of major U.K. firms and business lobbying groups as a part of a four-country “trade mission” ending in London Friday.
His trip was officially billed as an attempt to build Florida’s economic relationships with the U.K., Israel, South Korea and Japan, but it has been widely seen in Washington as a chance for DeSantis to present himself as a statesman on the world stage.
For several of those present, however, the statesmanship was lacking.
One U.K. business figure said DeSantis “looked bored” and “stared at his feet” as he met with titans of British industry in an event co-hosted by Lloyd’s of London — the world’s largest insurance marketplace.
“He had been to five different countries in five days and he definitely looked spent, but his message wasn’t presidential,” they told POLITICO. “He was horrendous.”
A second business figure who was in the room said it was a “low-wattage” performance and that “nobody in the room was left thinking, ‘this man’s going places’.”
They said: “It felt really a bit like we were watching a state-level politician. I wouldn’t be surprised if [people in attendance] came out thinking ‘that’s not the guy’.”
“There wasn’t any stardust.”
A third person present at the event agreed “it felt like the end of an overseas trip — which it was,” but insisted DeSantis “came across well.” The best a fourth could muster was that DeSantis was “fine.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/ron-detedious-how-desantis-underwhelmed-britains-business-chiefs/
Kamaji:
But they're in love with the Orange Nincompoop, no doubt.
Right_in_Virginia:
--- Quote from: Kamaji on April 29, 2023, 03:21:00 pm ---But they're in love with the Orange Nincompoop, no doubt.
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And your point?
Kamaji:
--- Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on April 29, 2023, 03:23:39 pm ---And your point?
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That whatever you might have to say about RDS - other than your baldfaced lies - applies 10x over to Trump.
I find it simply fascinating that such a cult of personality has developed around Trump that he can go right back to spouting old-school 20th Century liberal pablum, and you people lap it up like it was some new-found revelation from God.
The truest thing Trump ever said was that he could go out onto Fifth Avenue and shoot someone in cold blood, and people like you would not only continue to support him, you'd cheer him on and justify his act of murder.
LMAO:
--- Quote from: Kamaji on April 29, 2023, 03:30:31 pm ---That whatever you might have to say about RDS - other than your baldfaced lies - applies 10x over to Trump.
I find it simply fascinating that such a cult of personality has developed around Trump that he can go right back to spouting old-school 20th Century liberal pablum, and you people lap it up like it was some new-found revelation from God.
The truest thing Trump ever said was that he could go out onto Fifth Avenue and shoot someone in cold blood, and people like you would not only continue to support him, you'd cheer him on and justify his act of murder.
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Yup
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