# Ron DeSantis' White Boots Ron DeSantis' White Boots is a photo of the Florida governor touring Hurricane Ian damage on October 2nd, 2022, while wearing conspicuously tall, pristine white rain boots. Twitter users zeroed in on the footwear within a day, and by October 3rd, 2022, photoshops comparing him to the Green M&M and Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders were pulling tens of thousands of likes[4]. ## Origin On October 2nd, 2022, DeSantis appeared in a CNN segment touring the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Florida, where cameras caught his tall white rain boots[6]. The earliest known tweet calling out the footwear came from user @jordanzakarin, who posted screenshots from the segment with a caption accusing DeSantis of holding up volunteers to pose in his "campaign vest and shrimping boots"[1]. That post picked up only about 70 likes over three days[1]. About two hours later, on October 3rd, 2022, @NotHoodlum reposted the image with the caption, "This is what happens when you let Ted Cruz pick out your storm clothes," which drew roughly 6,500 likes[2]. Around the same time, @RonFilipkowski posted a close-up with the line, "Damn those things look nice and clean. Not a speck of mud on them," and hit about 22,300 likes in three days[3]. - **Platform:** Twitter - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2022 ## Overview Ron DeSantis' White Boots, also called Ron DeSantis' Go-Go Boots, centers on a single visual: the governor in a campaign vest and tall, bright white rubber boots that looked untouched by any mud at a Hurricane Ian site[6]. The humor hinges on the contrast between disaster-zone staging and footwear that reads closer to fashion runway than cleanup crew, which is why early tweets mocked the boots as impossibly clean[3]. Most posts fell into two buckets. One was straight captioning of the untouched photo with jokes about his cleanliness or wardrobe choices[2]. The other was photoshop edits that cut DeSantis out of the storm footage and dropped him into unrelated contexts, from candy mascots to NFL cheerleader uniforms[4][5]. ## How It Spread After @RonFilipkowski's and @NotHoodlum's tweets took off on October 3rd, 2022, the replies turned into a photoshop thread. The Lincoln Project's account posted an edit the same day pairing DeSantis with the Green M&M, which drew roughly 62,600 likes in three days[4]. Those early comparison edits set the template that others followed in the reply chains. On October 5th, 2022, @Pleightx posted an edit that reskinned DeSantis as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, which gained about 45,100 likes in a single day[5]. Know Your Meme documented the exploitable going into early October 2022 as the boots jumped from one-off jokes to a recurring photoshop format on Twitter[6]. ## How to Use Posts typically start from the same source photo of DeSantis in the vest and white boots, then either add a caption pointing out how spotless the boots are or isolate him from the background for a photoshop swap. A common convention places him in costumes or settings where the boots fit the aesthetic, like the Green M&M's design or a cheerleader uniform, so the joke flips from "wrong boots for a hurricane" to "right boots for something ridiculous"[4][5]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Ron DeSantis' White Boots? It is a photoshop meme built on a photo of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in tall, spotless white rain boots during a Hurricane Ian cleanup tour on October 2nd, 2022[6]. ### Where did Ron DeSantis' White Boots come from? The source footage aired in a CNN segment on October 2nd, 2022, and Twitter user @jordanzakarin posted the first known mocking tweet the same day[1]. ### What does Ron DeSantis' White Boots mean? The joke targets the mismatch between a disaster-zone photoshoot and immaculate white boots, with captions like "not a speck of mud on them" calling out how staged the footwear looked[3]. ### How do you use Ron DeSantis' White Boots? Posts typically caption the untouched photo or photoshop DeSantis into other contexts where the boots fit, like the Green M&M mascot or a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader outfit[4][5]. ### Is Ron DeSantis' White Boots still popular? The format peaked in early October 2022 during the Hurricane Ian news cycle and is best known as a classic Twitter photoshop moment from that week[6]. ## References 1. [https://twitter.com/jordanzakarin/status/1577059867860221953]() 2. [https://twitter.com/NotHoodlum/status/1577097104589467649]() 3. [https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1577097128391847936]() 4. [https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1577108281281028096]() 5. [https://twitter.com/Pleightx/status/1577691656010272769]() 6. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ron-desantis-white-boots]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/ron-desantis-white-boots Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library