Ron DeSantis has proven that he is a very competent governor during this most recent hurricane, and he doesn’t need Joe Biden to show up to take pictures with him.

On Friday, Joe Biden announced that he would be going to Florida to tour the area that Hurricane Idalia damaged. Now, he and DeSantis have been in communication (apparently through phone calls) as you would assume the governor of a state and the president would be after a natural disaster. Let’s be honest, though – Biden needs an image boost. DeSantis, by all accounts, has done very well in preparing and responding to the damage that Idalia has done. The Biden team, on the other hand, knows that the Big Guy took a bad hit over his “no comment” on Maui – so bad, in fact, that they were STILL walking it back weeks after he said it, claiming that old Joe simply couldn’t hear the question. (Let’s not even go into how insane Joe was when he finally went to Maui and talked about that kitchen fire again.) And now, presented with a “do-over” attempt, Biden is going to Florida within three days of the hurricane touching down.

This is always about optics, especially when Team Biden knows how badly he screwed up in Maui. Never mind that East Palestine is still waiting for THEIR promised presidential visit.

[I don’t agree with this. He IS the president. My governor is way too sharp to get trapped into a Christie bear hug with the vegetable. Biden is diminished standing there. I’d love to see a repeat of the scene from Patton, where Montgomery marches triumphantly into Messina and…

POTATUS: “Don’t smirk DeSantis. I shan’t kiss you.”

RDS: “Pity. I shaved very close this morning in preparation of getting smacked by you.”

~ Beege]