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 April 12, 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, or will have served two full terms, as Florida governor, and in the words of one, he's looking for a job. DeSantis and Trump have had sort of an on-again, off-again, on-again relationship. DeSantis was sort of an understudy of his. Trump helped endorse him or endorsed him and helped make him governor in 2018, then they ran against each other."
"DeSantis ran against him, and now they've made 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 actually work for him here in Florida, the relationship between him and President Trump is pretty strong, 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 him becoming attorney general is relatively slim, according to a number of people, but it's still a non-zero chance," Caputo said, "and we're going to have to see, in addition to the secretary of war spot – and incidentally, Pete Hegseth, from what I'm told, is in no danger of going anywhere, it's just if he happens to leave. There's also the slight possibility that if a Supreme Court post opens up, the president might consider Ron DeSantis for that. In fact, he's made some calls to people and said, 'Hey, what do you think about this as an idea?' So that is a dream job for DeSantis, according to people who know his thinking, and I wouldn't rule that out either."
That was stunning news to CNN's Sara Sidner.
"When you consider that, I mean, the political ramifications, you know, people saying, look, the court is not supposed to be political," Sidner said, "and then putting a Florida governor in that spot would be a remarkable move by the president."
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