Trump's attack of DeSantis relied on a bullying campaign to shred his dignity: report

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) couldn't go toe-to-toe against Donald Trump in 2024.

And despite launching his campaign to take over as MAGA Republican Party's heir apparent — he's now licking his wounds inflicted over 242 days on the campaign stump.

“I don’t care if he’s a Republican,” Trump gloated in November at a GOP gathering in Florida, according to The New York Times. “We hit him hard, and now he’s like a wounded falling bird from the skies.”

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The sloganeering was outmatched, and the salvo of insults was almost never able to find reprisals.

The Times pointed to a press release questioning DeSantis’s manhood, comparing him to having the gait of “a 10-year-old girl who had just raided her mom’s closet and discovered heels for the first time.”

A Trump campaign spokesman called the Florida governor and onetime ally a "disloyal dog," compared the Florida governor to that of a "desperate eunuch," wondered why he would "cuck himself," and accused him of trying to find "new sugar daddies" to keep his campaign afloat.

DeSantis fought back with a more traditional approach, tried to take the high road, and lashed out at the "juvenile insults."

The governor was accused of propping himself up to seem taller — specifically inserting lifts into his Lucchese brand boots.

After wavering about the merit of the height-challenged insult, DeSantis appeared to be rattled, even when he was trying to get a lick in.

“If Donald Trump can summon the balls to show up to the debate, I’ll wear a boot on my head,” he said, recalled TheTimes.

After bowing out of the contest over the weekend and hitching his battered wagon to Trump's primed locomotive, DeSantis appeared to be waving a white sock.

In turn, Trump agreed to do away with the "DeSanctimonious” moniker.

But aides tell The Times DeSantis and Trump haven't spoken.

And when asked if there was a chance they might be able to heal their bond, the campaign spokesman appeared to be looking ahead, saying, “We’re focused on New Hampshire."