Piers Morgan likens Ron DeSantis to Muhammad Ali
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DeSantis Boxing
In this metaphor, Donald Trump is George Foreman, falling for the rope-a-dope.

Piers Morgan sees Florida’s Governor as floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.

The British commentator lauded Ron DeSantis in a new piece for the New York Post, suggesting that the Governor is Muhammad Ali, and that he has “rope-a-doped” lumbering Donald Trump into a false sense of security.

“In the eighth round, Ali suddenly sprang off the ropes and into (an) attack with a fusillade of punches and knocked out the seemingly invincible (George) Foreman. The Greatest didn’t win because he was the stronger man. He won because he had the smarter tactics, and the courage to execute them,” Morgan contends.

Trump is about to face a “Rumble in the Jungle-style fight” with DeSantis, who is “showing every sign of being the opponent Trump fears most: one who can soak up his punches and knock him out.”

Morgan notes Trump’s “soaring poll numbers, helped by martyrdom off the back of his legal issues, are the same as they would have been for Foreman in the first few rounds of that showdown when everyone assumed he’d win.”

DeSantis’ calm disconcerts Trump, Foreman contends: “The more aggressively unhinged Trump has grown, the calmer DeSantis has been, and as someone who’s known Trump well for nearly 20 years, I say this benign response will be as disconcerting to him as Ali’s rope-a-dope was to Foreman.”

Morgan lauds DeSantis for defending subway vigilante Daniel Penny, demonstrating “a sure-footed instinct for what many Americans think about these kinds of stories.”

“There’s a debate raging among Republicans about whether DeSantis should continue to play nice or start punching back at his mentor-turned-tormentor. But you don’t get to be senior legal counsel to a Navy SEAL commander in the Iraq War, as he did, by always playing nice.”

Morgan goes on to predict the future.

“Very soon, I predict Ron DeSantis is going to announce he’s running, spring off the ropes, and start swinging at Donald Trump,” Morgan contends. “It will make the Rumble in the Jungle look like a tea party. And my money’s on DeSantis knocking him out.”

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


20 comments

  • Rob Desantos

    May 16, 2023 at 1:18 pm

    Piers Morgan is a racist and all around vile human being, so it figures he would be a Desanctus cheerleader.

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  • Jean wingo

    May 16, 2023 at 2:24 pm

    Ron Desantis is tough but moral, controlled and smart, can be counted on to not put his ego ahead of the country. Morgan is right on!

    • Rob Desantos

      May 16, 2023 at 2:51 pm

      Breaking news: Florida Republican flack supports Florida Republican hack

    • Ocean Joe

      May 16, 2023 at 3:42 pm

      There is absolutely nothing moral about tricking a bunch of Venezuelan asylum seekers onto a plane and flying them to Martha’s Vineyard, using them like props so folks like you will support him.
      Unless you descend from Native American stock, take a moment and think about your own forefathers being jerked around like this.

      • Impeach Biden

        May 17, 2023 at 6:25 am

        Well then Ocean can we count on you to open your house to these illegals? Over six million supposedly now since the bumbling fool and his incompetent border czar took over. Where are our sovereign borders?

        • Tom

          May 17, 2023 at 7:42 am

          Isn’t there a wall or something to stop all this migration? Oh that’s right … the last bunch of incompetent fools messed that up as well.

          Just face it, this has been a problem since the 60’s and until Congress sits down and passes actual legislation to solve this problem, nothing will change. Maybe it’s easier to use it as a political football to kick down the road. Maybe piers morgan comparing desantis with a dead boxer will make things magically better. We live in hope.

    • But the Disney thing

      May 16, 2023 at 4:02 pm

      Rhonda won’t put his own ego ahead of the country? But he is doing exactly that with his widdle squabble over Disney releasing their statement disagreeing with Rhonda’s Don’t Say Gay policy. Had Rhonda not picked his widdle fight, the statement from Disney would never have been noticed by anyone at all because who freaking cares? Rhonda cares, that’s who, and that’s all, and his thin skinned fragile ego can’t take the Fleur D’uh heat. Rhonda will continue to implode north of the Mason Dixon line and west of the Mississippi and even North Carolina and Georgia too! Rhonda’s already lost. He’s just too full of himself to admit it.

    • Mr. Haney

      May 16, 2023 at 7:33 pm

      DeSantis is a bigot coward. There is no morality in that.

      You are a sucker.

  • Dont Say FLA

    May 16, 2023 at 2:54 pm

    What is Rhonda’s winning strategy? Toss dart at trans kids and drag queens while waiting and hoping some indictment finally send Trump to the big house? LOL, not a winning strategy. Trump has exactly one thing in common with Reagan, and that’s Teflon. Everybody knows Rhonda will lose bigly. That’s why they changed “Resign to Run” into “Resign To Run Except Rhonda”

  • Mercury Shampoo Ed 👍

    May 16, 2023 at 4:38 pm

    Muhammad Ali me arse..the guy already knocked out of the race by Orange Hitler. They’ll vote for Orange Hitler instead of him guaranteed. That being said, Orange Hitler will not win in 2024. It’s all entertainment for the sub-apes.

  • Earl Pitts American

    May 16, 2023 at 9:14 pm

    Good evening Dook 4 brains lefties,
    Ron is going to be the next POTUS. You dook 4 brains lefties better get used to it sooner than later. Y’all know how sensative y’all are so start easing yourselves into it so you wont totally loose your dook brains when it happens.
    Lets start with a little repitition:
    Now dook brains Mr. Haney. Repeat this phrase 3 times – President Desantis: one, two, three!!!
    Great job Mr Haney, you feel better, dont ya?
    Now the rest of you – same thing say it 3 times.
    Great job everyone we will get thru this together!!!
    Thank you dook brains lefties,
    Earl Pitts “Dook 4 Brains Special Ed. Teacher” American

    • Elliott Offen

      May 16, 2023 at 10:45 pm

      You are a cancer on this website. Only on the internet. In public, you get a bat to the head. Yeah Rubio canvasser..

    • Dont Say FLA

      May 17, 2023 at 8:55 am

      Howdy there EPA! Okay repeating three times.. “There’s no place like homeschool. There’s no place like homeschool. There’s no place like homeschool.” Home is the only school in Rhonda’s Florida where you might not get shot, and Rhonda’s solution? More guns.

      • Earl Pitts American

        May 17, 2023 at 9:27 am

        Good morning Perverted StoolPusher,
        Stop trying to dilute the genious of your betters with your Peverted StoolPusher comments.
        Thank you Dont Say,
        Earl Pitts American

        • Dont Say FLA

          May 17, 2023 at 9:38 am

          Hi EPA! Good morning to ya. If that old axiom “You are what you eat” holda true, then my stools are most definitely perverted. And I do confess, I regularly push out stools just like everybody else. Unlike Trump, my stools don’t land in a diaper. At least not yet, but we all get back there someday, pooping in a diaper, unless we croak mercifully young like, to name a few dozen, the kids that get shot to death in Rhonda’s public schools while Rhonda’s supposed solution to that issue is “be mean to trans kids” and/or “add some more guns, we don’t have enough of them yet.” I suppose public safety will “trickle down” someday when there’s finally enough guns.

  • russ

    May 17, 2023 at 9:25 am

    Looks more like Tyson vs sound to me

    • russ

      May 17, 2023 at 9:25 am

      Spinx

  • Rhonda is a Muslim?

    May 17, 2023 at 9:32 am

    I’m confused. Is Pierce Moreguns suggesting that Rhonda converted to Islam? Rhonda observing Sharia law.. Hmm, that would definitely explain a lot. Maybe Pierce is right. Does Rhonda have a dog or pig living at the mansion? I have never heard about one. I think Moreguns is right. Rhonda converted. If Islam helps Rhonda find inner peace, good for him.

  • Tom Palmer

    May 17, 2023 at 9:41 am

    I can’t recall Gov. DeSantis being calm in any of his recent tirades. I do know the Murdochs, who own the NY Post, are done with Trump, so the piece is not surprising..

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