Donald Trump Ad Criticizes ‘Pudding Fingers’ Ron DeSantis For Supporting Social Security Cuts

A disgusting new ad from a political action committee backing the former president donald trump criticizes Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for supporting cuts to popular retirement programs and eating pudding with his fingers (supposedly).

“DeSantis has his dirty fingers on senior rights,” says a narrator about the potential 2024 presidential candidate as a man in a suit dips three fingers into a cup of chocolate pudding.

The man then inserts his fingers into his pudding-stained mouth as the narrator says that DeSantis supports “cutting Medicare, slashing Social Security, even raising our retirement age.”

The content of the pudding comes from a march report in The Telegraph that said a former DeSantis “staff worker” claimed to have seen the governor eat pudding with three fingers.

The content of the policy comes from DeSantis’s days as a member of Congress, when he voted for token republican budget plans in the early 2010s, that would have lowered benefits and raised the age of eligibility for both Social Security and Medicare to 70. Reforming rights had been a pet project of former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and it was not a controversial issue. political position among Republicans at the time.

Since his 2016 campaign, Trump has sought to set himself apart from other Republicans by speaking out against cuts to Social Security and Medicare, though as president he suggested he was open to reducing spending on programs and proposed modest cuts as part of its symbolic budget documents.

This year, Trump warned Republicans not to touch Social Security or Medicare in his spending showdown with President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) quickly. fell online.

Cutting retirement programs is politically unpopular. Although voters say they are concerned about the long-term funding of Social Security and Medicare, which will face deficits over the next decade, most don’t support benefit cuts.

It’s not the first announcement from MAGA Inc.’s political action committee to highlight DeSantis’ past position on Social Security and Medicare as the governor prepares to run for president. TO previous place published in March said that “DeSantis voted three separate times to cut Social Security.”