Trump and DeSantis camps spar over former president’s ‘Freedom Cities’ plan

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (FLV) – The campaigns of former President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis continue to trade barbs on social media, this time over Trump’s proposed “Freedom Cities” initiative.

In March, the former president floated the idea of hosting a contest in which contestants would compete with one another in designing the cities, and ultimately the winner would be awarded a charter to build up to 10 of them on federal lands.

Christina Pushaw, a spokeswoman for the DeSantis campaign, hit Trump over his proposed city building plan and called the proposal a “WEF-inspired plan for 15-minute cities on federal lands.”

“Conservatives don’t want to live in centrally planned, federally constructed ’15 minute cities,'” she said. “This is Soviet dystopian nonsense.”

“For those of us who like cities at all, we want to restore our once-great American cities to be safe, clean, orderly, and productive again,” Pushaw tweeted.

An account representing the Trump campaign, known on Twitter as Trump War Room, fired back at Pushaw and accused her of lying about the former president’s proposed “Freedom Cities.”

“You have to lie about Pres. Trump’s ideas because Ron has no original ideas of his own,” Trump War Room responded.

The Trump campaign also defended the former president and accused DeSantis of being “inspired by the WEF.”

“Nothing about President Trump is inspired by the WEF,” they said. “Unlike Ron, who sided with WEF, Obama, Biden, Hillary, and Paul Ryan to support TPP, and talks frequently about how he dislikes tariffs.”

The escalating attacks from members of both campaigns come as DeSantis and Trump host campaign events in Iowa with the Florida governor hosting his first rally this past week and Trump set to participate in a town hall with Sean Hannity on Thursday, June 1.