IN-DEPTH: Trump, DeSantis, and Their Surrogates at War on Social Media

Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are fighting a war of words, and the battlefield is social media.
Hardly a day goes by without sniping. Trump, a declared presidential candidate for 2024, lashes out relentlessly at DeSantis, while the likely-but-undeclared Republican candidate takes subtler swings at the former political ally.
Various surrogates pummel the presumed opponent of their favorite, day and night, on Twitter and Trump’s own Truth Social.
Some of Trump’s latest posts express outrage about DeSantis’s current trip abroad to meet with world leaders. He wrote about that on his platform on April 24.
“The ‘Consultants’ are sending DeSanctus [sic], and demanding he go immediately, on an emergency Round the World tour of U.S representative population countries, like South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Israel, in order to up his game and see if he can remove the stain from his failing campaign. Bad poll numbers!” Trump wrote….}