As we’ve noted before, the closer it gets to the time when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will reportedly announce his decision on if he’ll run for president the more hit pieces get published and petty swipes made.

Hilariously, though, those hit pieces and swipes usually don’t have the desired effect, because conservatives – even those who aren’t DeSantis fans – are all too familiar with the left’s/media’s “worst ever/everything but the kitchen sink” strategy when it comes to Republican public figures, and how DeSantis is getting treated is no different in that regard.

The latest example of this, however, may be the most unintentionally humorous. Daily Beast campaign “reporter” Jake Lahut did some big time investigating and found out that DeSantis’ alleged “soft skill” problems with voters and donors are so bad that, at one point during a 2019 flight, he failed to “read the room” by eating pudding—while seated in a “very intimate flight cabin”—with three fingers:

New — Ex-DeSantis staffers and those involved in planning his book tour/pre-campaign events describe long standing issues over his soft skills coming to the fore as he hits the road.

Example: A 2019 flight from TLH to DC where he ate pudding w/ 3 fingers.https://t.co/KEwA7F9Pgr

— Jake Lahut (@JakeLahut) March 16, 2023

The pudding incident, which former DeSantis staffers describe as a common instance of him not reading the room (in this case, a very intimate flight cabin): https://t.co/KEwA7F9Pgr pic.twitter.com/s29MjZB4Ml

— Jake Lahut (@JakeLahut) March 16, 2023

From this moment forward, we’ll follow Lahut’s lead and refer to this illuminating moment in DeSantis’ storied political career as “The Pudding Incident™” or “TPI.”

Naturally, other so-called “journalists” like Jonathan Lemire from Politico latched on to TPI as if it provided some supposedly troubling insight into DeSantis’ people skills, or lack thereof, as the insinuation makes clear:

“Enshrined in DeSantis lore is an episode from four years ago: During a private plane trip from Tallahassee to Washington, D.C., in March of 2019, DeSantis enjoyed a chocolate pudding dessert—by eating it with three of his fingers” https://t.co/13GqsGRsLD

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) March 16, 2023

As I understand it, Sen. Amy “eats a salad with a comb” Klobuchar was unavailable for comment.

The responses of most conservatives to the piece were summed up best by one who noted how she was “really looking forward” to the presidential debates on this topic should DeSantis run and become the GOP nominee:

I’m really looking forward to the 2024 Presidential debates.

DeSantis: “You believe in surgically mutilating children, and keeping kids out of school during COVID. I put a stop to that in my state.”

Dem candidate: “Well . . .you ate pudding with your fingers!”

“Oh boy. They got him now,” observed another.

I mean, really. What will we learn next? That DeSantis slurps milk out of his cereal and soup bowls, devours saucy chicken wings in a single bite? Oh, the horror of it all.

But seriously, if this is the best DeSantis’ Very Woke Online Leftist critics can do, which is the equivalent of “Ron DeSantis has human moments OMG!,” you know he must be doing something – a lot of things, really – right.

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