On Thursday, Trump posted a petulant statement from his Save America PAC – that read more like one long ‘whine’ — saying:

 

“Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games! The Fake News asks him if he’s going to run if President Trump runs, and he says, I’m only focused on the Governor’s race. I’m not looking into the future.

“Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that’s really not the right answer.”

 

“Governor Ron DeSanctimonious,” the former president said, “an average REPUBLICAN Governor with great Public Relations, who didn’t have to close up his State, but did, unlike other Republican Governors, whose overall numbers for a Republican, were just average—middle of the pack—including COVID, and who has the advantage of SUNSHINE, where people from badly run States up North would go no matter who the Governor was, just like I did!”

 

 

Naturally, Trump took credit for DeSantis’s entire career.

“Ron had low approval, bad polls, and no money, but he said that if I would Endorse him, he could win … I said, ‘Let’s give it a shot, Ron,’” Trump said. “When I Endorsed him, it was as though, to use a bad term, a nuclear weapon went off.

Meanwhile, more Republicans are calling for a move away from Trump. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan went so far as to call Trump a ‘drag on our ticket’ adding

“I think we just have some Trump hangover.”