Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis likes to wear cowboy boots.
Menswear experts and others have alleged DeSantis wears lifts in his boots to make him look taller.
It’s become one of the foremost talking points about him at a time when he needs positive press.
Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. DeSantis is no stranger to playing the heel.
Whether it’s unilaterally replacing two elected district attorneys in Florida, enacting and strengthening the state’s contentious “Don’t Say Gay” law, or picking fights with Disney, DeSantis has spent his time in office pursuing his goals despite potential public backlash.
But at a time when his campaign is in dire straits, it’s own heels that are standing in his way.
Over the past few weeks, social media users latched on to DeSantis’ decision to wear cowboy boots at a large number of public events. There’s been a suspicion that he’s wearing several-inch lifts in his boots to make him appear taller, akin to a high heel, an allegation he and his campaign deny.
Their denials, however, have not stopped anyone from publicly deliberating the topic:
On Tuesday, menswear expert Derek Guy spoke with three established bootmakers who each said they suspect DeSantis is, in fact, wearing lifts.
Appearing on “The Daily Show,” radio host Charlamagne tha God joked that DeSantis is actually waging his war against Disney “because you got to be this tall to ride the magic teacups.”
Videos on TikTok of users giving their own thoughts on DeSantis’ boots have garnered millions of views.
The hosts from the Republican bastion Fox News have also debated the topic, with one arguing that DeSantis’ alleged heel lifts were easily verifiable given an eye test.
DeSantis’ largest competition (both in height and in polling), former President Donald Trump, has jumped into the discussion as well. His campaign sent out a press release Tuesday afternoon where his spokesperson said DeSantis has committed “borderline psychotic behavior by lying to the American people” about the boots.
The release noted DeSantis’ appearance on a recent podcast where he was pressed on the topic. The governor said he hadn’t been made aware of the allegations but insisted his boots were standard, off-the-rack Lucchese, a statement the Trump campaign called “major brand damage to a great American footwear company.”
If it was the beginning of the campaign or if DeSantis held a commanding lead, the attention to DeSantis’ footwear would likely be another speed bump in a long campaign. But in late August, the Washington Post reported that the chief strategist for DeSantis’ super PAC warned that the campaign needed to overtake Trump by the end of October.
October has come and gone, and with two months to go until the Republican presidential caucuses in Iowa, DeSantis is still miles behind Trump in national polling. According to an average of polls by FiveThirtyEight, he’s 43.2 percentage points behind the embattled former president, despite Trump’s myriad of legal entanglements.
With just a short few months remaining to turn the campaign around before primaries begin, this is the time when DeSantis most needs to be kissing babies and shaking hands.
Instead, he’s debating the state of his boots.
Easy enough to disprove, yet he won’t. Hmm.
Pretty obvious that the simplest solution to put this all to rest is take your fucking boots off.
Old Ross Perot didn’t give a shit.
He should go back to the white gogo boots.
I really don’t want someone this insecure anywhere near access to the nuclear codes.
In my opinion it’s very easy to see in side photos. DeSantis’s posture is affected in the same way as women wearing high heels.
I can’t believe he lied about it too…
Does he really think people are so stupid that they can’t look up Lucchese boots on the internet and compare them visually?
Do I need to photoshop them together side by side?
It’s really not hard to see that there’s something strange going on with his boots.
At this stage of his campaign, this is his only news driver. Epic fail.
Go back home and try to do something good for Florida, like fix the insurance crisis there.
a con man is nothing without confidence
Umm, the raised boot pales in comparison to the fungus infected brain cells.
Finally, something inane and pointless ruining someone’s campaign again, politics is finally returning to normal. /s
Really though I do not give a shit if he wears fucking lifts or high heels or spends his days on stilts. It’s the fact he’s a horrible person with terrible policies that’s important.
He told an interviewer that he was 5’11”. I almost choked. That is so fucking hilarious (and troubling) that he can’t tell the truth about something visible. I realize that we all have insecurities, but I would have hoped that by his age, he’d be ok just accepting that he’s maybe 5’6″-5’8″ or so. It’s really not a big deal unless you try to lie about it.
Low spark of high heeled boy’s ..
He was just trying to pump up his campaign, give it a lift, now it’s failing to keep him propped up
Take one boot off Ronny. Let’s see.
“Rumors” lol. I know shoe lifts when I see em.
Are you ready boots? Start walkin’.
Puddin’ N’Boots is a fantastic drag name
It almost as if Patrick Bet-David was carrying water for Trump because he sure as hell wouldn’t have asked Trump if he really weighed 215 pounds.
If Seinfeld is true, wearing lifts is forbidden in the dwarf community. Shame.
He feels better, stronger, and more like himself in high heels. So what?
I just wish he’d be supportive of other people who also like to wear them.
But let’s be clear: it’s true.
Raised boot goofin.
Of all the shitty things he does and all the terrible things he says…THIS is what his downfall is??
But hey, I’ll take what I can get.
Who will win the republican nomination, the guy in high heels? Or the guy who wears makeup?
I get emasculating a complete asshole, but I’d much rather everyone focused on how he’s run Florida into the ground.
Him being ashamed of being of average height is sad; his actions in FL are grotesque.
I mean…I consider the fascism a larger problem that the boots but whatever gets rid of the fascist I suppose.
The funniest part is now he has to keep wearing them or suddenly lose a few inches. He looks stupid either way. 😂
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Taken down by pudding and high heels
Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis likes to wear cowboy boots.
Menswear experts and others have alleged DeSantis wears lifts in his boots to make him look taller.
It’s become one of the foremost talking points about him at a time when he needs positive press.
Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. DeSantis is no stranger to playing the heel.
Whether it’s unilaterally replacing two elected district attorneys in Florida, enacting and strengthening the state’s contentious “Don’t Say Gay” law, or picking fights with Disney, DeSantis has spent his time in office pursuing his goals despite potential public backlash.
But at a time when his campaign is in dire straits, it’s own heels that are standing in his way.
Over the past few weeks, social media users latched on to DeSantis’ decision to wear cowboy boots at a large number of public events. There’s been a suspicion that he’s wearing several-inch lifts in his boots to make him appear taller, akin to a high heel, an allegation he and his campaign deny.
Their denials, however, have not stopped anyone from publicly deliberating the topic:
On Tuesday, menswear expert Derek Guy spoke with three established bootmakers who each said they suspect DeSantis is, in fact, wearing lifts.
Appearing on “The Daily Show,” radio host Charlamagne tha God joked that DeSantis is actually waging his war against Disney “because you got to be this tall to ride the magic teacups.”
Videos on TikTok of users giving their own thoughts on DeSantis’ boots have garnered millions of views.
The hosts from the Republican bastion Fox News have also debated the topic, with one arguing that DeSantis’ alleged heel lifts were easily verifiable given an eye test.
DeSantis’ largest competition (both in height and in polling), former President Donald Trump, has jumped into the discussion as well. His campaign sent out a press release Tuesday afternoon where his spokesperson said DeSantis has committed “borderline psychotic behavior by lying to the American people” about the boots.
The release noted DeSantis’ appearance on a recent podcast where he was pressed on the topic. The governor said he hadn’t been made aware of the allegations but insisted his boots were standard, off-the-rack Lucchese, a statement the Trump campaign called “major brand damage to a great American footwear company.”
If it was the beginning of the campaign or if DeSantis held a commanding lead, the attention to DeSantis’ footwear would likely be another speed bump in a long campaign. But in late August, the Washington Post reported that the chief strategist for DeSantis’ super PAC warned that the campaign needed to overtake Trump by the end of October.
October has come and gone, and with two months to go until the Republican presidential caucuses in Iowa, DeSantis is still miles behind Trump in national polling. According to an average of polls by FiveThirtyEight, he’s 43.2 percentage points behind the embattled former president, despite Trump’s myriad of legal entanglements.
With just a short few months remaining to turn the campaign around before primaries begin, this is the time when DeSantis most needs to be kissing babies and shaking hands.
Instead, he’s debating the state of his boots.
Easy enough to disprove, yet he won’t. Hmm.
Pretty obvious that the simplest solution to put this all to rest is take your fucking boots off.
Old Ross Perot didn’t give a shit.
He should go back to the white gogo boots.
I really don’t want someone this insecure anywhere near access to the nuclear codes.
In my opinion it’s very easy to see in side photos. DeSantis’s posture is affected in the same way as women wearing high heels.
I can’t believe he lied about it too…
Does he really think people are so stupid that they can’t look up Lucchese boots on the internet and compare them visually?
Do I need to photoshop them together side by side?
It’s really not hard to see that there’s something strange going on with his boots.
At this stage of his campaign, this is his only news driver. Epic fail.
Go back home and try to do something good for Florida, like fix the insurance crisis there.
a con man is nothing without confidence
Umm, the raised boot pales in comparison to the fungus infected brain cells.
Finally, something inane and pointless ruining someone’s campaign again, politics is finally returning to normal. /s
Really though I do not give a shit if he wears fucking lifts or high heels or spends his days on stilts. It’s the fact he’s a horrible person with terrible policies that’s important.
He told an interviewer that he was 5’11”. I almost choked. That is so fucking hilarious (and troubling) that he can’t tell the truth about something visible. I realize that we all have insecurities, but I would have hoped that by his age, he’d be ok just accepting that he’s maybe 5’6″-5’8″ or so. It’s really not a big deal unless you try to lie about it.
Low spark of high heeled boy’s ..
He was just trying to pump up his campaign, give it a lift, now it’s failing to keep him propped up
Take one boot off Ronny. Let’s see.
“Rumors” lol. I know shoe lifts when I see em.
Are you ready boots? Start walkin’.
Puddin’ N’Boots is a fantastic drag name
It almost as if Patrick Bet-David was carrying water for Trump because he sure as hell wouldn’t have asked Trump if he really weighed 215 pounds.
If Seinfeld is true, wearing lifts is forbidden in the dwarf community. Shame.
He feels better, stronger, and more like himself in high heels. So what?
I just wish he’d be supportive of other people who also like to wear them.
But let’s be clear: it’s true.
Raised boot goofin.
Of all the shitty things he does and all the terrible things he says…THIS is what his downfall is??
But hey, I’ll take what I can get.
Who will win the republican nomination, the guy in high heels? Or the guy who wears makeup?
I get emasculating a complete asshole, but I’d much rather everyone focused on how he’s run Florida into the ground.
Him being ashamed of being of average height is sad; his actions in FL are grotesque.
I mean…I consider the fascism a larger problem that the boots but whatever gets rid of the fascist I suppose.
The funniest part is now he has to keep wearing them or suddenly lose a few inches. He looks stupid either way. 😂