You’ve likely heard by now that Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis finally threw in the towel over the weekend and suspended his 2024 presidential campaign. And perhaps nobody is more devastated than his homophobic wife, Casey, since this means her dreams of becoming the next Melania Trump have officially gone up in smoke.
“It’s clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance,” the gay-hating governor said in a gloomy video posted to social media yesterday. “They watched his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance, and they see Democrats using lawfare to this day to attack him.”
DeSantis ended his message by endorsing Trump for president and slamming the only other candidate left in the field, Nikki Haley, by calling her a “repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism.” Meow.
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His exit from the race came just two days before the New Hampshire primary, where he was expected to come in a very distant third.
Mrs. DeSantis was her husband’s biggest cheerleader throughout his approximately eight months on the presidential campaign trail, during which he and his PAC somehow managed to burn through a reported $100 million and walk away with virtually nothing to show for it, aside from 23,420 votes in the Iowa primary. (We did the math, and that means DeSantis spent approximately $4,269.85 per vote.)
She accompanied him on his most awkward campaign stops (like his trip to a rural baseball field in Iowa), embarrassed herself in interviews (like the time she encouraged people to commit voter fraud or the time she tried to say being nicknamed “Walmart Melania” was actually a compliment), recorded that deeply homophobic ad in which she alluded to gay groomers coming for America’s children, and even claimed to have knocked on over 3 million doors begging people to vote for her husband.
Speaking of the “Walmart Melania” moniker, which stems from a Daily Beast column titled “Casey DeSantis Is the Walmart Melania” and published last summer, Mrs. DeSantis never missed an opportunity to talk about her fondness for the ex-FLOTUS, who she’s only met a handful of times.
At the Florida Republican Party’s “Freedom Summit” in November, she addressed the nickname by saying, “Awesome! That’s the greatest thing you could call me. For me to be in the same sentence as Melania is a wonderful thing. She’s gorgeous. That’s great! I love it! Score!”
In an interview with ex-NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch (what a combo), she called the nickname “a major victory,” saying, “They’ve also called me Walmart Melania, which by the way, being in the same sentence with Melania, I consider that a major victory”
And she referenced it during a Fox News appearance, saying, “One thing that the corporate media did get right about me: I do shop at Walmart!”
Casey often tried to mimic Melania’s high-end designer looks with cheaper, less stylish knockoffs purchased from discount department stores.
Her most obvious nod to the ex-FLOTUS’s fashion was when she wore a black leather jacket emblazoned with an outline of the state of Florida, an alligator, and the words, “Where woke goes to die.” Many compared it to Melania’s infamous $39 army green jacket from Zara with the words “I really don’t care. Do U?” scrawled on the back.
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With her husband officially out of the running for president, it’s unclear what Casey will do next since, over the past several years, she has let herself be defined by him and his ambitions.
After he was elected governor, she quit her job so she could focus on being a full-time wife, mom, and homophobe. Her Twitter X bio literally reads: “First Lady of Florida. Wife to @RonDeSantis. Proud Mom to Madison, Mason and Mamie. Fighting for our Great American Comeback.”
There’s been some chatter that she’s considering a run for Florida governor after Ron’s second term ends in 2026, but she’s denied those rumors.
A November poll conducted by the University of North Florida Public Opinion Research Lab found her leading in a cesspool of potential Republican candidates.
A total of 788 registered Florida Republicans participated in the survey. 22% of them said they wanted Mrs. DeSantis to be their next governor, despite the fact that she’s never won an election or held public office before, nor does she have a law degree or any executive leadership experience.
With so much still uncertain, there is one thing we know for sure: she’ll never be America’s first lady.
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Did wife Casey’s action to defend her husband damage his image even further?
abfab
Sorry woman, no White House for you. Bye.
whereshouldistart
PHEW!!! Good news for the White House staff who are STILL trying to clean and disinfect the place after the FIRST SKANK was evicted three years ago!
abfab
DC didn’t have enough HAZMAT teams for that contract. And that poor rose garden.
NateOcean
The rose garden? Yes.
But my nightmares revolve around bloody tampon Christmas trees.
Winsocki
I would have said “I am the Evita Peron of Florida”. I do not know much about Walmart, I think I have walked into a Walmart 3 times in 30 yrs. Mostly on vacation when nothing is around.
ZzBomb
Desantis’ political future is likely DOA from here on out.
Same w/ Haley’s once she finally slinks away.
Now we can turn our attention on to forthcoming convictions of the perennial Bowling Greene Massacre victim and hopefully save our democracy for another generation.
abfab
Along with her sad husband Will, or is it Frank or is it Mick.
still_onthemark
Does she also think “Tacky O” is a compliment?
Bengali
Melania is also the Walmart Melania!!! She has the class of the very lowest of Walmart shoppers. Melania’s more like a Walmart OUTLET shopper.
abfab
Poor white trash with bad taste displaying the latest in fashion-don’ts.
dbmcvey
DeSantis’ campaign has been a zombie for several months now. Nothing premature here.
abfab
Rhonda can put away his hysterical boots and she can go back to caring for HER children (rug rats).
Man About Town
Um… “lawfare”?
ZzBomb
It’s what the right refers to when they feel (not think) one of their own, particularly Trump, is facing various legal issues. They feel the law is being weaponized against him, despite the fact he’s been the best example of the duplicitous nature which is our legal system and its preferential treatment towards the rich.
bachy
lawfare: the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its criminal members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
Sounds to me like we need to step it up, even.
gregg2010
As much as I disliked Melania and her politics, I have to be honest and admit that the bitch dressed beautifully.
bachy
Fascism is famous for its aesthetics. It’s why a lot of artists / designers have historically (and unfortunately) been taken in by it.
abfab
It looks like a sky-blue straight jacket, which she and her vomitatious husband belong in. Unfortch there isn’t enough fabric for him.
Georgeiv2
Poor old cow and after all the work she put in tanking Ms. Kitten Heel’s campaign She should run an add “Beard for hire ” adding” has own eyebrows” to see if she can get there by another route !
cuteguy
This chick is the Spirit Airlines of wannabe First Ladies. No class and trash
She and her high heeled wearing husband need to go like an Alaska Airlines airplane window mid air
Never been happier to see two losers depart
CNY1983
what happened to the gays for melania? cant those bitches throw casey a bone?