A.G. Gancarski
Florida’s Governor continues to sound the alarm about toys from China, with his latest polemic on the subject addressing their difficult assembly.
“I get frustrated because it’s Christmas time,” DeSantis said. “We’ll get the kids these toys, right. And some of them require, like, a lot of assembly.”
The Governor made the comments in Washington County, Iowa. They continue a trend of DeSantis denunciations of the imported playthings.
“So I’m like, the instructions will be like two point font and it’s not even very good stuff and I’m just trying to find a new screwdriver and this and all that and they don’t have all the parts,” DeSantis added. “So it’s like it’s an inordinate amount of time to be able to get the kids whatever they get and then it ends up breaking in two days anyways and it’s because it’s cheap stuff that comes from China and it’s just frustrating, but the elites in this country have allowed it to happen.”
During an event in Prosperity, South Carolina, the 2024 presidential candidate and Florida Governor pivoted from a discussion of banning Chinese vapes to explaining how toys from the country have wreaked havoc with DeSantis family Christmases.
“We get the kids these toys and they’re all made in China. A lot of them are and literally they break within, like, a couple of days,” DeSantis vented, calling the products “the cheapest stuff I’ve ever seen in my life.”
He explored a similar theme in Iowa in October.
“These toys made in China, literally, they break within 48 hours. It’s the cheapest stuff imaginable,” DeSantis said.
“A lot of times they don’t even have the full parts, and I burned a lot of hours putting together dollhouses and all this stuff. The worst feeling is you sink two hours into it and then there’s a part missing and you can’t complete it,” he added.
In Texas this Summer, DeSantis said, “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.”
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.
“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.”
Back in 2021, meanwhile, DeSantis lamented not the quality of the toys, but whether issues at ports would stop them coming in at all.
“You see all of these problems with the shipping and not being able to get goods. We don’t even know if the kids will get toys for Christmas,” the Governor said in Niceville.
The good news? The supply chain issues have been solved.
The bad news? What’s coming in now isn’t worth buying, at least in DeSantis’ estimation.
11 comments
Higgins
December 21, 2023 at 1:14 pm
Build the wall with Chinese toys.
M. Mouse
December 21, 2023 at 1:34 pm
Looks like his campaign was built in China! Broken the day he rolled it out! Squeak!
Dont Say FLA
December 21, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Rather than going out in public and whining at the whole world about the cheap shit Mrs Rhonda buys at WalMart, why doesn’t Rhonda tell Mrs Rhonda “stop buying this cheap shit at WalMart?”
Oh, right.. Mrs Rhonda is the top. Rhonda is the bottom. Mrs Rhonda, pardon the expression, “wear the pants.”
Ron Forrest Ron
December 21, 2023 at 2:13 pm
Rhonda seems to be admitting here that he does not read the directions and also does not compare what’s really in the box with the directions’ statement of what’s in the box.
Rhonda, spend the 5 minutes seeing if all the parts are there before you start trying to build a child’s toy for 2 hours before giving up.
Linwood Wright
December 21, 2023 at 4:06 pm
Admitting that you don’t understand how to assemble kids toys isn’t the flex you think it is, Ron.
Paul
December 21, 2023 at 4:44 pm
Lol right? Living up to MOron Desantis isn’t a good “narrative “. What a ding dong.
Michael K
December 21, 2023 at 8:16 pm
Gues he’s never bought furniture from IKEA.
My Take
December 22, 2023 at 12:34 am
China has a space shuttle and we have DimSSantis and MAGA.
I wonder who is going to win.
Jojo
December 23, 2023 at 6:06 am
I bet he’s a bundle of joy at Christmas
Tell Ron
December 23, 2023 at 11:58 am
Somebody please tell Ron there’s Philips head screwdrivers and there’s flat head screwdrivers. Both varieties come in a bunch of different sizes / depths.
Poor Ron. That guy has zero clue how to do anything with his his hands other than handling balls. Baseballs, ya pervs.
There’s also Torx keys but let’s not confuse the issue for Ron. That’s advanced stuff right there, them Torx keys.
Normally I say don’t tell Ron when he confesses not to know things, but man, in this case, children are suffering. Somebody tell him!
Rude Eye
December 25, 2023 at 8:01 am
By the looks of it Ronny’s campaign must have been made in China because It’s falling apart awfully quick.
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