Seth Meyers Lays Into Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for Scolding Masked Kids
On Thursday night, one day after fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel dragged Republican troll-representatives Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene for heckling Joe Biden while he was speaking about his dead Iraq War vet son during the State of the Union address, Seth Meyers aimed his ire at another shameless, Trump-appeasing politician: Ron DeSantis.
“[Trump] just goes from town to town holding his one-man WrestleMania’s where he just loudly whines and rants, and his crowd yells, ‘Lock them up!’ even when it doesn’t make any sense,” said Meyers, adding, “That’s the heart of modern Republican politics. And that’s what was going on yesterday when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis showed up to a press conference at the University of South Florida and scolded a bunch of high school students for wearing masks.”
Yes, video of the event captured DeSantis—whose state of Florida is currently averaging the second-highest number of COVID deaths of any state, just behind the far bigger California—scolding a group of high school teenagers for wearing masks to his indoor event.