Ron DeSantis Memoir Not Big Or Beautiful: 'Reads Like It Was Churned Out By ChatGPT' Says Critic

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis new memoir “The Courage To Be Free” was clearly not written by former President Donald Trump, using 'big, beautiful' adjectives and creative — yet mean-spirited — made-up insults for his opponents.

In fact, the book is "courageously free of anything that resembles charisma, or a discernible sense of humor," according to a nonfiction critic.

“Ron DeSantis has been casting himself as a Trump-like pugilist. But the overall sense you get from reading his new memoir is that of the mechanical try-hard — someone who has expended a lot of effort studying which way the wind is blowing in the Republican Party and is learning how to comport himself accordingly,” Jennifer Szalai of The New York Times wrote on Monday.

The Backdrop

“The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival” by Desantis was released Feb. 28. The summary states that the so-called "blueprint" means to “Be willing to lead, have the courage of your convictions, deliver for your constituents and reap the political rewards,” Szalai wrote.

DeSantis, who has not yet announced his candidacy in the 2024 presidential race but is widely expected to, has been trailing Trump in several recent GOP Primary opinion polls, and has also been the target of many of Trump’s attacks.

While Szalai didn’t refer to DeSantis’ new book as “phony and whiny,” like Trump has called him in the past, she did note that the memoir is of “dull coldness” and that it “will leave some supporters, who have encouraged DeSantis to 'humanize himself' for a national audience, sorely disappointed.”

What’s More

While Szalai writes in her revew that DeSantis background, as a military prosecutor and a “double-barreled Ivy Leaguer (Yale and Harvard Law School)” has made him “diligent and disciplined” the book lacks charisms and a sense of humor.

“While his first book was weird and esoteric enough to have obviously been written by a human, this one reads like a politician’s memoir churned out by ChatGPT,” Szalai wrote.

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