Good grief, the outrage...
He did not refer to him as a monkey, he was obviously talking about his agenda..
quote “The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state,” said DeSantis to Smith.
Stephen Lawson, communications director for DeSantis’ campaign said the comments were about Florida’s economy.
“Ron DeSantis was obviously talking about Florida not making the wrong decision to embrace the socialist policies that Andrew Gillum espouses. To characterize it as anything else is absurd,” Lawson said. “Florida’s economy has been on the move for the last eight years and the last thing we need is a far-left democrat trying to stop our success.”
I am sorry if you have never used that term, to monkey with something, but is a more family friendly of saying the equivalent of "Fuck this up" or to fool with something.
This hyper sensitive stance that many feel they need to take is ridiculous.