Ron DeSantis is one strange f*cking dude. He says that the Bahamas would be no match for the United States if they participated in an insurgent attack on the excellent folks of Fort Lauderdale in South Florida.
“If someone was firing missiles from the Bahamas into, like, Fort Lauderdale, we would never accept that. We would flatten. Anything that happened, it would be done like literally within 12 hours, it would be done,” the 2024 presidential candidate said in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Despite the need for the U.S. Embassy in Nassau to clarify that his comments don’t reflect American foreign policy, the Governor continues to use this metaphor to draw a parallel between hypothetical attacks on the U.S. from Nassau and the situation in Israel.
DeSantis has switched up the rhetoric before, saying it would take much less than 12 hours to obliterate the Caribbean archipelago.
“If people were firing rockets from the Bahamas into, like, Fort Lauderdale, we would never allow that. I mean, we would flatten them. Within like five minutes, we would flatten them,” he said in Eldridge, Iowa, in early December.
The US Embassy had the embarrassing task of contacting Nassau to clarify that the United States had no plan to obliterate the Caribbean archipelago. Fort Lauderdale is ethnically diverse, with diaspora from most nations in the Caribbean and South America. Bahamians must have been scratching their heads as they are a significant population in Broward County.
Ron spent too much time with the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, which clouded his mind and brought out the violent koo koo in his thoughts.