In an exclusive interview, Gov. Ron DeSantis takes The New York Post on a tour of his Florida hometown to reveal what made him the man he is today.
As a student at Yale, he played baseball — and worked every odd job he could to pay his way.And he is thinking about a national agenda, especially the idea of moving federal government departments outside of Washington, DC, to help drain the swamp.
“A week after graduation, I show up 6 a.m. and worked until 4 o’clock or later, 40 hours or more a week, for the rest of the summer. The paychecks all went to the school, to pay for my necessities and everything like that,” DeSantis says of his freshman year at Yale. As a teenager, he would drive his mom to her nursing job early every morning, then, go back home to get ready for school. “She worked a 12-hour shift, so I would do all that, then pick her up, usually after baseball practice.”
Asked if his was ever changed to DeSanctimonious — the derisive nickname bestowed upon him by Donald Trump — he laughs. “No. There weren’t enough letters to be able to do that. I don’t know if anyone even can spell that.” The first thing DeSantis knew he needed to do was get a part-time job. What he ended up doing was a lot of part-time jobs.
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