Ron DeSantis plugs Guinness at Irish pub
TALLAHASSEE, FLA. 5/5/23-Gov. Ron DeSantis during a news conference after the 2023 legislative session concluded, Friday at the Capitol in Tallahassee. COLIN HACKLEY PHOTO

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'Never too early for a Guinness.'

Gov. Ron DeSantis voiced appreciation for a favorite beer of his Thursday, hours before lunch.

During a press conference in Jacksonville at an Irish-themed bar, the Governor joked that it was “never too early for a Guinness,” his latest expression of affinity for the signature brew from the Emerald Isle.

To be clear, he wasn’t drinking the beer at the time. But Thursday’s remarks are the latest expression of preference for the stout from across the sea.

The Governor previously extolled the beer during this year’s controversy about Bud Light, in the wake of the company collaborating with a transgender influencer for a promotion. He said that while he supported the “righteous” boycott of the brand from “conservative beer drinkers,” his preferences were already elsewhere.

“But, you know, my wife and I, they (bars) don’t have it here if we ever go out to just have a beer — which admittedly we don’t have the opportunity to do that like we used to, you know — we actually like the stout, Guinness,” DeSantis explained during an interview on “The Benny Show.”

“Years ago we went to Dublin, we went to some other places, and we’ve always been a fan ever since,” DeSantis said.

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


11 comments

  • Joe

    September 7, 2023 at 10:33 am

    Guinness is owned by Diageo, a multinational corporation that is actually as woke as Bud Light/ABInBev, as you can plainly see from the page on diversity/inclusion/ESG on their website.

    Fortunately for Tiny D, the RepubliQan rubes don’t know anything about anything, so he can keep pretending to make some sort of statement here. He’s a phony.

  • My Take

    September 7, 2023 at 11:14 am

    I hate it that he likes the “stuff” I like, you know?

    • Michael K

      September 7, 2023 at 2:02 pm

      Yep. The Irish people approved abortion and marriage equality overwhelmingly by ballot initiative – and the former PM was bi-racial married gay man. Far too woke for someone like Little D.

      • Rick Whitaker

        September 7, 2023 at 5:31 pm

        phoney, phoney, phoney. why did you people vote for him. i’m woke, so i have an open mind that can see him well.. that is why he hates woke.

    • Rick Whitaker

      September 7, 2023 at 5:32 pm

      who knows what he likes, he never is on the level. i bet he likes to be spanked.

  • Silly Wabbit

    September 7, 2023 at 11:41 am

    He dwunkard.

  • Rick Whitaker

    September 7, 2023 at 5:26 pm

    another bret cavanaugh. he likes his beer.

  • T

    September 7, 2023 at 6:24 pm

    Disgusting, deathsantis has no care about anyone other than himself and it shows!

  • Mark miller

    September 8, 2023 at 7:16 am

    Being the child that he is, I am surprised that he can be served. Also his lying fake wife and her phoney cancer story. Two hateful people that have helped ruin florida, but then again not all his fault as this state legislature has been under control by red communists for decades.

  • tom palmer

    September 8, 2023 at 3:29 pm

    why is this a story? Do you have a daily quota of DeSantis comments to fill?

  • Rude Eye

    September 8, 2023 at 4:41 pm

    BEER, IT’S JUST NOT FOR BREAKFAST ANYMORE.

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