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Trump Mocks DeSantis: 'He Walks Like a Duck' Due to Allegedly Wearing High-Heel Lifts in His Boots

"Somebody is going to say to him ‘take off those shoes we want to see if they’re high heels.’"

Published: January 4, 2024
  |   By Cassandra MacDonald
Trump Mocks DeSantis: 'He Walks Like a Duck' Due to Allegedly Wearing High-Heel Lifts in His Boots

Former President Donald Trump brutally mocked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over his footwear during an interview last week at Mar-a-Lago.


The Republican frontrunner declared that DeSantis "walks like a duck" due to high-heeled lifts he is rumored to wear inside his cowboy boots.

"Did you see him walk off the stage in the last debate? He could barely walk," Trump said during an interview with Breitbart News. "I’m a little bit surprised he continues to do it because he had trouble as he walked off the stage in the last debate. Somebody is going to say to him ‘take off those shoes we want to see if they’re high heels.’ He’s going to have no choice but to do it if you had a really good debater. That’s what they’d do because he tries to pretend it doesn’t happen."

Trump added, "He walks like a duck."

DeSantis' campaign has been on edge for months over viral memes insisting that the governor is wearing lifts inside of his boots to make him appear taller.

Trump originally entered into the boot debate during a rally in November, saying that DeSantis was having difficulty moving around the Republican primary debate stage because of his shoes.

“I’m not wearing lifts either, by the way. I don’t have six inch heels,” Trump told the audience. “Actually the greatest moment of the debate when Ron was walking around, Desanctimonious was, walking off the stage. And his feet. It’s weird because his cowboy boots, so they have a high heel outside. But inside you got a big deal going on and he’s walking away.”


The Republican frontrunner drew massive laughs and applause from the crowd as he flailed his arms and pretended to walk like DeSantis.

“He’s walking off the stage like he’s trying to balance himself. I thought he was wearing ice skates. No, what difference does that make, Right? What difference when you think about it, what difference does that make,” Trump added.

Vivek Ramaswamy went viral when he roasted both Nikki Haley and DeSantis as "Dick Cheney in three-inch heels" during the debate.

"You have the likes of Nikki Haley, who stepped down from her time at the U.N., bankrupt or in debt was her family," Ramaswamy said after being asked what sets him apart from other candidates. "Then she becomes a military contractor. She joins the board of Boeing and otherwise — and is now a multimillionaire. So, I think that that’s wrong when Republicans do it or Democrats do it."

"That’s the choice we face. Do you want a leader from a different generation who’s going to put this country first, or do you want Dick Cheney in three-inch heels? In which case, we’ve got two of them on stage tonight."


DeSantis was also questioned about his height and footwear during an interview with Patrick Bet David, during which he insisted that he wears normal cowboy boots that are "off the rack."


The candidate also addressed his controversial footwear during an appearance on Newsmax with host Eric Bolling in early November.

“There are these gotcha people, these people who just want to sit there and they want to talk about how tall you are, whether you’re wearing boots with heel extenders inside,” Bolling said. “The southern border is a disaster, terrorists are coming across the border. We got two wars that we’re kind of funding, and they want to talk about how tall you are.”

DeSantis continued, "This is no time for foot fetishes."


"People want to try to divert on to other issues. I know Donald Trump and a lot of his people have been focusing on things like footwear," DeSantis said. "I’ll tell you this, if Donald Trump can summon the balls to show up to the debate, I’ll wear a boot on my head.”

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