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Earlier this week, we learned that in his new memoir, The Courage to Be Free,<\/em> Ron DeSantis<\/strong> has a number of very nice things<\/a> to say about Donald Trump.<\/strong> Unfortunately for the governor of Florida, his would-be 2024 opponent has not returned the favor, and by \u201cnot returned the favor,\u201d we mean Trump has decided to follow up his recent suggestion<\/a> that a 20-something DeSantis groomed high school girls\u2026by claiming the guy will send seniors to an early grave if elected president.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, Trump logged on to Truth Social and told<\/a> his followers: \u201cGreat Poll numbers are springing forth for your favorite President, me, against Ron DeSanctus (& Biden). I guess people are finding out that he wanted to CUT SOCIAL SECURITY & RAISE THE MINIMUM AGE TO AT LEAST 70, at least 4 times. LIKEWISE WITH MEDICARE, WANTED BIG CUTS. HE IS A WHEELCHAIR OVER THE CLIFF KIND OF GUY, JUST LIKE HIS HERO, failed politician Paul Ryan,<\/strong> the FoxNews ratings destroyer who led Mitt Romney<\/strong>\u2019s Presidential Campaign down the tubes. GLOBALIST\u2019S ALL! WE WANT AMERICA FIRST!!!\u201d<\/p>\n Trump isn\u2019t right about a lot of things, but he is correct in his claim that former House Speaker Paul Ryan famously dreamed<\/a> of gutting Medicare and Social Security, as well as Medicaid and other key aspects of the social safety net\u2014which he once described<\/a> as a \u201chammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.\u201d Sadly for Ryan, not enough people in Congress wanted to commit political suicide, and he retired<\/a> before he could get the job done.<\/p>\n As for DeSantis, the Florida governor has been less direct than Ryan about his lust for doing away with programs millions of people rely on (and in many cases, pay into). But it\u2019s not hard to see where his head\u2019s at, since he:<\/p>\n And what of Trump\u2019s position on all this? Well, he is currently painting himself as a defender of Medicare and Social Security and, according to Ryan<\/a>, refused to pursue cuts to \u201centitlements\u201d while in office because they weren\u2019t popular. However, the ex-president apparently forgets that in 2019, he reportedly discussed<\/a> gutting Medicare as a potential \u201csecond-term project.\u201d Or that, in 2020, he was asked if such cuts would ever be on his \u201cplate,\u201d and responded, out loud: \u201cAt some point they will be<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n