On Monday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," 2024 Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stated that his 2024 Republican opponent former President Donald Trump's rhetoric on China in 2016 and how he actually dealt with China were very different and that when he "could have marshaled a lot of support in America to have a stronger posture vis-a-vis China, he was praising Xi about how well Xi did" in handling COVID early on "And no one's ever done anything to hold China accountable for their role in that. He didn't do very much either to hold China accountable for their role in the fentanyl."