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NY Post
New York Post
14 Apr 2023


NextImg:Trump PAC ad mocks DeSantis over ‘pudding fingers,’ benefit cut votes

A Trump-aligned super PAC is hitting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for sticking his “dirty fingers” into entitlement programs for senior citizens — and allegedly using them to eat pudding as well, according to a stomach-churning ad released Friday.

“Ron DeSantis loves sticking his fingers where they don’t belong, and we’re not just talking about pudding,” the ad’s narrator says, referring to an alleged 2019 incident where the 44-year-old Florida governor ate chocolate pudding with three of his fingers while on a private plane ride to Washington, DC.

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“DeSantis has his dirty fingers all over senior entitlements like cutting Medicare, slashing Social Security, even raising the retirement age,” the narrator intones over footage of a man in a navy blue suit and red tie scarfing down pudding with his bare hands.

The revolting ad links to a series of articles on DeSantis’ congressional voting record. The reports state that he “voted to cut Social Security 3 times” while a member of Congress, and tried to “raise the retirement age to 70.”

While serving as the representative for the Sunshine State’s 6th Congressional District between 2013 and 2018, DeSantis did cast votes for non-binding resolutions that backed the cut as well as the retirement age change.

“Tell Ron DeSantis to keep his pudding fingers off our money,” the narrator concludes. “Oh, and someone get this man a spoon.”

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A Trump-aligned super PAC is hitting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for sticking his “dirty fingers” into entitlement programs.
Images from pro-Trump, anti-DeSantis ad.
The stomach-churning new TV ad released Friday as part of a $1.5 million weekly ad buy from Make America Great Again Inc.

The ad is part of a $1.5 million weekly ad buy from Make America Great Again Inc., a source told The Post. The pro-Trump super PAC is running the ad on CNN, Fox News and Newsmax, the source added.

The former president has focused heavily on messaging his support for senior benefit programs as he seeks the 2024 Republican nomination.

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“Cut waste, fraud, and abuse everywhere that we can find it, and there is plenty of it,” Trump said in January as congressional Republicans began negotiating with Democrats over the debt ceiling. “But do not cut the benefits our seniors worked for and paid for their entire lives. Save Social Security. Don’t destroy it.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
DeSantis has yet to announce his run for the presidency.
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Former President Donald Trump.
Trump is the current GOP frontrunner for the 2024 nomination.
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The 76-year-old GOP frontrunner in his 2020 budget proposal, however, supported cutting Social Security by $25 billion and Medicare by $845 billion over the next decade, according to National Review.

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DeSantis, who has yet to announce a widely expected presidential run, rebutted claims that he would back future cuts to entitlement programs in a Fox News interview last month.

“We’re not going to mess with Social Security as Republicans,” he told Fox News at the time. “I think that that’s pretty clear.”

In a separate interview the same month, the Florida governor also disputed that there was proof of the pudding incident.

Images from pro-Trump, anti-DeSantis ad.
Trump has focused heavily on messaging his support for senior benefit programs as he seeks the 2024 Republican nomination.
Images from pro-Trump, anti-DeSantis ad.
“But do not cut the benefits our seniors worked for and paid for their entire lives,” Trump said in January.

“I don’t remember ever doing that,” DeSantis told Post columnist Piers Morgan. “Maybe when I was a kid but it’s interesting, there’s a lot of people who when they go at you, sometimes they have really good ammunition, like ‘You’re a crook, you did this, you did that.’

“For me, they’re talking about pudding, and I’m like, ‘Is that really the best you’ve got? OK, bring it on!'”