Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is reportedly seeking to join the Trump administration after leaving office, and the president has supposedly considered handing the outgoing GOP governor his "dream job."
Axios reporter Marc Caputo, who's plugged into Florida's MAGA world, told "CNN News Central" that President Donald Trump had lunch with DeSantis last week to discuss potential openings in his administration, and the president came away from the sit-down telling allies the governor was "begging" for a job.
"They had a lunch on April12, the Sunday before last,Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis did, and the discussion of Ron DeSantis future was on the menu," Caputo said. "DeSantis is termed out in January. He served two terms, orwill have served two full terms,as Florida governor, and in thewords of one, he's looking fora job. DeSantis and Trump havehad sort of an on-again, off-again, on-again relationship.DeSantis was sort of an understudyof his. Trump helped endorse himor endorsed him and helped makehim governor in 2018, then theyran against each other."
"DeSantisran against him, and now they'vemade up and they're pals again,though a lot of people in Trump's orbit don't like Ron DeSantis," he added. "Some of them actuallywork for him here in Florida,the relationship between him and President Trump is prettystrong, and Trump likes him."
The 79-year-old president has considered several plum positions for DeSantis, who has been rumored as a potential 2028 Republican presidential candidate.
"The likelihood of himbecoming attorney general isrelatively slim, according to anumber of people, but it's stilla non-zero chance," Caputo said, "and we'regoing to have to see, inaddition to the secretary of warspot – and incidentally, Pete Hegseth, from what I'm told, isin no danger of going anywhere, it's just if he happens toleave. There's also the slightpossibility that if a Supreme Court post opens up, thepresident might consider Ron DeSantis for that. In fact,he's made some calls to peopleand said, 'Hey, what do you think about this as anidea?' So that is a dream job for DeSantis, according to peoplewho know his thinking, and Iwouldn't rule that out either."
That was stunning news to CNN's Sara Sidner.
"When you consider that, Imean, the politicalramifications, you know, peoplesaying, look, the court is notsupposed to be political," Sidner said, "andthen putting a Florida governorin that spot would be aremarkable move by thepresident."