It is not every single day you shrug off a person attempting handy you an award, however that is precisely what Ron DeSantis discovered himself doing on Saturday at a marketing campaign occasion in Iowa.
Earlier than DeSantis might start a speech to voters holding their GOP caucus on January 15, a prankster interrupted to current the Florida governor with a “participation trophy” for his lengthy shot presidential marketing campaign.
“Gov. DeSantis, I need to current to you this participation trophy,” Davram Stiefler of the prankster duo “The Good Liars” mentioned, eliciting laughter from the group. “Now you are in all probability not going to win the election, proper? However we’re happy with you for attempting.”
The GOP presidential hopeful’s smile wavered as he tried to get Stiefler to maneuver on, pushing away the trophy and saying “I do not do participation trophies, sorry buddy. Sorry buddy.”
DeSantis’ spouse, Casey, motioned at safety to escort him out. As they led him away, Stiefler continued addressing the room: “He is particular, he is distinctive, and he is our little snowflake.”
Stiefler and representatives for the DeSantis marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from Enterprise Insider.
“The Good Liars,” the pranksters who referred to as Trump boring to his face, trolled NRA chief Wayne LaPierre for providing “ideas and prayers” in response to mass shootings, wore a “Accept Biden” shirt to a 2020 Biden marketing campaign occasion, and snuck an empty “labeled” folder right into a show case at Trump Tower amid Trump’s doc case, then paid a go to to a Vivek Ramaswamy occasion for extra hijinks.
On Sunday, Ramaswamy’s marketing campaign cease in Ankeny, Iowa, was disrupted when Stiefler and his comedic companion, Jason Selvig, interrupted Ramswamy’s speech. Although it is unclear precisely how the altercation began, a video that started halfway via the incident exhibits Stiefler saying, “I really like you. I really like all of you. That is the factor about me,” USA As we speak reported.
Ramaswamy advised the pair they may take part in a scheduled Q&A in the event that they revered the “norms” of the occasion and, in the event that they did not, ought to “get the hell out,” the video exhibits.
The entrepreneur-turned-political candidate then inspired his viewers to “let these individuals know what you consider them,” eliciting a spherical of jeers from the group as Stiefler and Selvig had been escorted from the occasion.
“This is the reason we have to get the tremendous PAC out of American politics,” Ramaswamy referred to as out because the duo had been faraway from the occasion, although the satirists aren’t related to political fundraising teams. “Finish the tremendous PAC and finish the corruption. We’re sick and uninterested in it. The opposite candidates are threatened.”