Ron DeSantis’ campaign compares Trump to Biden after he ‘forgot’ he was in Iowa during speech: Florida governor ramps up mockery of former president after he makes gaffes similar to 80-year-old Joe

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign criticized former President Donald Trump for forgetting he was in Iowa — comparing the ex-president to the current 80-year-old commander in chief.

On Sunday, Trump, 77, wished a “big hello to a place where we have done very well – Sioux Falls” – despite being on stage in Sioux City, Iowa.

Sioux Falls is a city in South Dakota.

“Donald Trump forgot what state he was in yesterday, prompting an employee to inform him he was in Iowa,” said the DeSantis War Room account on X, the site formerly known as Twitter. “Who does that remind you of?”

President Joe Biden regularly makes gaffes, with Trump himself mocking the president on stage last month and pretending to conflate Iowa and Idaho.

The presidential campaign of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (left) ripped into former President Donald Trump (right) for forgetting he was in Iowa – comparing the ex-president to the current 80-year-old commander in chief

DeSantis’ War Room account on

DeSantis, 45, has taken more shots at Trump in recent weeks as his poll numbers have stagnated.

Last Tuesday, the DeSantis campaign launched a ‘Trump accident tracker‘, which highlighted some of Trump’s other recent blunders.

It showed that Trump mistook the “Obama administration” for Biden’s at an event in Iowa and later confused Obama for Biden on several occasions and later confused President George W. Bush and his brother Jeb.

It also showed the ex-president denying on Meet the Press that he had said anything he said verbatim, and Trump confusing Hungary’s Viktor Orbán with the leader of Turkey.

The three-minute video clip created by team DeSantis, it also showed Trump’s boast that he would keep the US out of World War II, a conflict that ended in 1945.

Last week in New Hampshire, DeSantis said Trump had “lost the spice of his fastball.”

“And what Donald Trump is doing now, he’s married to the teleprompter. He can’t get off that teleprompter, every time he does he says things like, ‘Don’t vote,'” DeSantis said.

During an appearance in Derry, New Hampshire last week, Trump told his legion of supporters that it was more important to engage in poll-watching activities than to actually vote — continuing to push conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

‘We have to be careful. You gotta get out of there. You have to keep an eye on those voters. You don’t have to vote, you don’t have to worry about voting. The mood. We have enough votes,” Trump said.

DeSantis indicated that he found Trump’s statement absurd.

“He’s telling people not to vote, as if we have all the votes we need,” DeSantis said. ‘Real? Wait a minute, you lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton in 2016. You don’t have all the votes you need.’

Trump also lost the popular vote – and the Electoral College vote – to Biden in 2020.
“And so I think it’s just been shown that this is a different Donald Trump than the one from 2015 and 2016. He’s lost his fastball, lost his sense of entitlement – ​​all these things. He doesn’t think he has to go through it and earn it like other candidates,” the Florida governor said.

So far, Trump has also skipped the two Republican primary debates, with plans to hold a rally in Florida during the third Republican Party event to be held in Miami next month.

“And that’s just not going to fly in Iowa and New Hampshire. And so, you know, how this happened along the way with Iowa and New Hampshire, I don’t know. But I can tell you that now that I’m here, I’m happy that it works this way because I think you have to earn it. I think voters expect that. That’s the first thing,” DeSantis also said.