Cranky DeSantis Calls Iowa Heckler ‘Rude’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ineffectively tried to quiet down a persistent heckler in Iowa by calling him "rude."

The heckler started calling out DeSantis' name in the middle of a stump speech, and the GOP hopeful tried to get him to stop a couple of times before he was ultimately escorted out.

"Excuse me, I'm doing this," said the cranky candidate. "You're interrupting and you're being rude. Everyone else is listening and you're butting in."

In the video, the heckler can be heard asking DeSantis how much money he's received from certain donors.

"I know you have an agenda," DeSantis responded.

"This guy, he wants you to pay more for gas more for energy," he continued saying about the heckler to a cheering crowd. "He wants rolling blackouts in this country. We're not gonna let people like that win. We're gonna make sure we're energy independent in this country."

It wasn't clear why the governor referred to rolling blackouts.

Several critics on Twitter mocked the Florida governor over the encounter. One jabbed that the most interesting aspect of DeSantis' stump speeches are the hecklers.

Another quipped that he was going to going to eradicate the heckler's "special tourism district," mocking the governor's ongoing "woke" battle with Disney.