Ron DeSantis mocked for referencing ‘pudding’ in CNN interview after bizarre food story

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In response to a question from CNN’s Jake Tapper in one of his first mainstream media interviews, the Florida governor said of his electability that “the proof is in the pudding”. “Ron DeSantis loves sticking his fingers where they don’t belong,” the Throughout the video, headlines from publications criticising Mr DeSantis appear over the images of the man eating the pudding. The “Tell Ron DeSantis to keep his pudding fingers off his money,” the After the Florida governor’s choice of phrase in Tuesday’s CNN interview, political commentator Keith Olbermann tweeted: “His Effing fingers are in the Effing pudding — that’s what’s in the pudding” and called Mr DeSantis “Ron DePudding”. OK, bring it on!’” “It’s quite interesting that the governor didn’t flat out deny eating pudding with three fingers,” an ex-staffer for Mr DeSantis told The Daily Beast earlier this year.