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As the 2024 presidential election plays out, former President Trump is now sounding the alarm regarding medical tyranny being implemented in the name of COVID mitigation.

Unfortunately, when COVID initially played out during Trump's presidency, he sang a considerably different tune.

The Trump administration, after all, ushered in Fauci, supported lockdowns, and fingerwagged various states for supposedly reopening too soon. The former president's current efforts to rewrite history for the sake of his own political gain are now getting pushback.

Some of the biggest names calling Trump out are none other than Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.

DeSantis and Kemp on Trump's COVID record

James Uthmeier, the 2024 campaign manager and chief-of-staff for DeSantis, stated that Trump took the "wrong" approach to COVID, unlike Gov. Kemp.

This statement from Uthmeier followed Kemp himself directly blasting Trump for opposing the April 2020 reopening of Georgia.

https://twitter.com/BrianKempGA/status/1700571052256948380

When the Republican governor moved to lift temporary restrictions on businesses and other facilities across the state, then-President Trump alleged to "strongly disagree" with the decision.

The statements from both Republicans arrive after Trump spoke in South Dakota and blasted various governors for supposedly locking down their states amid COVID.

Even on "X," which was previously regarded as Twitter, the Community Notes back up Kemp and DeSantis.

Pointed out in these Community Notes is Trump's initial implementation of federal orders for Americans to abstain from public gatherings. Then, there's also Trump's documented praise of Fauci's work on Operation Warp Speed that Community Notes cites.

A common enemy in Trump

Trump made enemies of both Kemp and DeSantis for different reasons. In the aftermath of the former president losing Georgia in 2020, he chastised Kemp for refusing to illegally interfere with the state's electoral outcome.

Later, Trump talked former Georgia Sen. David Perdue into primarying Kemp when the latter pursued reelection. However, Kemp went on to defeat Perdue in the primary before thereafter securing a second gubernatorial term.

As for DeSantis, Trump began attacking him when it became clear the Florida governor might run in the 2024 presidential election. Since DeSantis' entry into the race, Trump's insisted the Florida governor lacks loyalty and only won his election because of Trump's endorsement.

Despite the former president's rhetoric, DeSantis secured reelection in 2022 (without Trump's endorsement) by a much larger margin than his 2018 electoral win that followed Trump's support.