A.G. Gancarski
Ron DeSantis talked about border security in Texas Monday, but that didn’t stop him from fulminating over flimsy Christmas gifts.
During remarks in Eagle Pass, the Governor and GOP presidential candidate complained about “cheap” toys from China that impacted the Christmas celebrations enjoyed by his three children.
“This cheap stuff from China, you know, when my wife and I get our kids Christmas presents, and the stuff made in China breaks, it’s like you can’t even last two days after Christmas without the toys breaking. And so, it’s really, really cheap stuff,” DeSantis lamented.
While this is the first time the Governor has opined on Chinese toys in Texas, Florida audiences have previously been treated to his insights on playthings.
During remarks in January in Bonita Springs, the Florida Governor warned St. Nick against Chinese toys, the highlight of comments denouncing the “hostile” regime in Beijing.
DeSantis focused on the flawed nature of toys from communist China that he bought his children after the event.
“The next day, my wife and I took them and got them some toys to thank them for being so nice. … All this stuff is made in China, and a lot of it breaks; it’s cheap stuff,” the Governor lamented.
“And I’m just thinking to myself like, ‘OK, you get it from China because it’s cheaper to pay.’ But if it doesn’t even last a week, then what difference does it make? So a lot of these things we got? Santa Claus may need to not do Chinese toys because let’s just make it here … honestly anywhere, but not China.”
The Governor did not directly address Santa Claus in his Texas remarks, but he is holding the line against another Beijing Christmas in the Governor’s Mansion.
15 comments
Bert Stimson
June 26, 2023 at 11:51 am
Yum yum yum… Tiny D serving up red meat to the rubes in the Lone Star state!
Frank
June 26, 2023 at 11:52 am
DeSatan must never get anywhere near the white house…even to visit!
Hitler began this way and things didn’t turn out so well did they!
M. Mouse
June 26, 2023 at 11:55 am
What a bizarre little man. Waaa, Waaa, Waaa, the Chinese are breaking my toys on purpose!
Squeak!
Silly Wabbit
June 26, 2023 at 11:56 am
He kwazy.
Michael K
June 26, 2023 at 1:22 pm
Here’s what will really ruin holidays for his kids: soon, they will realize that their father is a racist homophobe with a nasty streak of cruelty. Just like Ted Cruz’s daughter did.
Ding Ding Ding
June 28, 2023 at 10:32 am
Today’s Internet Awards declares Michael K’s comment as the winner for 26 June 2023.
SteveHC
June 26, 2023 at 1:34 pm
I didn’t think it was possible for this little toddler to find something to focus on that would be even less relevant to Floridians’ concerns than he has already. CLEARLY I was seriously mistaken. So when the two of them are battling it out in their playpen during the Republican Party’s primary system, I guess Trump’s rattle will be Chinese while DeSantis’s will be American-made…
Darnell Hobbs
June 26, 2023 at 2:59 pm
Has anybody explained to this absolute moron that the reason a lot of our stuff is made in China is because Republicans have spent literal decades fighting to make sure that the American corporations can have the “Freedom” to pay their workers as little as possible.
So naturally that means they now outsource their labor to where they can pay people as little as possible.
RD’24
June 28, 2023 at 8:36 am
It was not Republicans.
Pretty sure American manufacturers were completely undermined by NAFTA enacted by then Democrat POTUS Bill Clinton. That’s when all of the quality of American goods and our manufacturing went belly up and it has never been the same since..
Dr. Franklin Waters
June 28, 2023 at 11:01 pm
NAFTA was the North American Free Trade Agreement you Silly Goose.
The Chinese were manufucating most of our goods well before NAFTA and Clinton took office.
Bernice kaczneski
June 26, 2023 at 8:41 pm
Perhaps if you bought better high quality gifts made in America and actually paid for them instead of buying cheap stuff it wouldn’t break. Republicans always complain but Never do anything. How about an honest paycheck for an honest Made in America job.
Linda Glenn
June 26, 2023 at 8:56 pm
Are these the same children that are creating havoc in the governor’s mansion. If you don’t want the public to talk about your children, don’t bring them into the conversation
tom palmer
June 27, 2023 at 9:43 pm
Gov.DeSantisi is rich enough to provide toys to needy children.Why does not he do so?
Dont Say FLA
June 28, 2023 at 10:33 am
These Chinese-made toys that I voluntarily purchased with my own I mean State of Florida’s money, these toys are GROOMERS!
Tjb
June 28, 2023 at 10:41 am
Ron comment is the most woke statement that I have heard this year. What do you expect the quality of the toy to be when you won’t spend more than a dollars for a toy. Perhaps you can get one of your rich donors to buy you children better Chinese toys.
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