On as we speak’s episode of The View, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis‘ top was a Hot Topic because of a current interview he gave addressing rumors that he wears lifts in his boots to seem taller. After DeSantis began sporting cowboy boots on the marketing campaign path earlier this yr, political rivals and media shops started to accuse him of carrying lifts inside them to seem taller.
View host Whoopi Goldberg offered a clip of DeSantis showing on the PBD Podcast, the place he was requested level clean if he wore lifts, an accusation he denied. “
Those are simply customary, off-the-rack Lucchese boots,” DeSantis instructed podcast host Patrick Bet-David. After the clip performed, Goldberg referred to DeSantis as “Yosemite DeSantis” and confirmed a Photoshopped picture of DeSantis’s higher physique tacked on to infamously brief cartoon character Yosemite Sam’s little legs, after which requested her co-hosts,”Is his top going to be his political legal responsibility?”
In response, many of the panelists additionally criticized DeSantis or outright mocked him for the rumor about his sneakers.
“There’s no foot in that boot! He has Barbie toes!” Ana Navarro replied to Goldberg, including, “Call me petty, and I do know you’ll… I’m relishing and having fun with this story a lot as a result of actually, he has been terrorizing my drag queen buddies in Florida effectively over a yr as a result of he has mentioned males in heels are a menace to society. It’s too unhealthy he has no drag queen buddies as a result of they might have taught him the best way to stroll in heels.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin added that she doesn’t suppose it’s DeSantis’s top that shall be his political downfall, however his lack of allure and charisma: “The purpose he’s by no means gonna be President isn’t the truth that he’s seemingly carrying excessive heels, it’s his reply to that clip… the shortage of charisma is astounding.”
Sara Haines dissented from the remainder of the panel and identified that it felt like bullying to snicker at somebody’s bodily look. “There is loads to choose aside about Ron DeSantis that I don’t suppose it’s the fitting tone to choose on his top,” she mentioned.
Navarro responded, justifying her jokes at his expense, “It was an entire self-own by Ron DeSantis. Donald Trump’s phrases acquired into his head that he’s acquired a Napoleonic advanced!”
Haines continued to plead her case that brief males are sometimes perceived as much less competent, although her phrases appeared to fall on deaf ears. Finally, Griffin acquired in one of many final phrases within the argument, stating, “Donald Trump could be very tall and he was extremely incompetent.”
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
