The shot failed: Donald Trump Junior actually wanted to tease his father’s rival Ron DeSantis. But then a slip of the tongue became his downfall. Now one wonders, was it perhaps Freudian?
In a Freudian slip, the actual thought or intention of the speaker emerges involuntarily. Donald Trump Junior, the son of the former US president, confused his father with his rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Ron DeSantis, in an online show. The Guardian writes that Trump Jr. Thursday said his father’s energy “makes Jeb Bush look like an Olympian.”
“Trump has the charisma of a mortician and an energy that makes Jeb Bush look like an Olympian,” Trump Junior said in his online format “Triggered With Don Jr.” on the Rumble video platform. Here are his original words:
Jeb Bush was a former governor of Florida and considered the favorite of the party establishment when Trump Sr. won the 2016 Republican primary. DeSantis is currently the governor of Florida and his right-wing politics have always attracted attention. On Wednesday, he officially announced his 2024 campaign on Twitter — with plenty of mishaps.
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After the mistake, Trump Junior paused and continued without correction: “The politics of a D.C. swamp rat, because we saw … the slippers, right?” And finally he tried a distraction: DeSantis had a “sort of nasal and soft voice”.
Source: Krone
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