DeSantis gifts Trump coin showing him flipping off would-be assassins: You missed bitches

FORT MYERS, Fla.– Florida Republican Gov.

Ron DeSantis gifted President Trump a coin Friday with a defiant message to his would-be killers ahead of a rally in the Sunshine State. The custom gold challenge coin depicts the smiling president flipping the bird and bears the engraved message: “You missed bitches.”  Trump miraculously escaped serious harm when a gunman opened fire at July 2024 rally in Butler, Pa., grazing the president’s ear.A second assassination attempt – at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., in September 2024 – was thwarted when Secret Service spotted the would-be sniper lying in wait in the bushes surrounding the course as Trump was golfing. DeSantis, who greeted the president on the airport tarmac in Fort Myers, presented Trump with the coin just moments after he stepped off Air Force One. The term-limited Sunshine State governor told reporters that a friend of his makes the coins and that he knew he had to get one for Trump. “I told them, I said, ‘I need to get this to the president.

Can I please have one to give to him?’ And so I was able to do it,” DeSantis said. The two Republicans have had a tumultuous relationship over the years, going from political allies to bitter rivals during the 2024 Republican presidential primary. DeSantis has seemingly worked on rekindling the relationship throughout Trump’s second term, including by renaming West Palm Beach’s airport after him, erecting a swampland migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” for the Trump administration to detain illegal migrants and pushing through aggressive redistricting in the months before the midterm elections.  The governor’s gift appeared to put Trump in the fighting spirit for the rally. “I’ve never seen a midterm with this kind of action,” the president said, arguing that Republicans have “far more energy” than Democrats with just 11 days to go before the high-stakes elections. Trump slamme...