{"id":255200,"date":"2026-05-02T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255200\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:50:39","slug":"trump-weighs-cabinet-appointment-for-florida-gov-ron-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255200\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump weighs cabinet appointment for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump said Friday he would consider appointing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> to a cabinet position next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I like him a lot,\u201d Trump told a reporter in explaining why he might appoint the term-limited governor to a top post.<\/p>\n

\"FloridaFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Trump shake hands at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport on opening day of \u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d in Ochopee, Fla., in July. REUTERS<\/p>\n

DeSantis was once among Trump\u2019s 2024 primary rivals for president, but he came in a distant second in the Iowa caucuses, and his campaign fizzled out.<\/p>\n

The Sunshine State gov eventually endorsed Trump, and DeSantis now works closely on Trump\u2019s priorities, including his crackdown on illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

Follow The Post\u2019s live coverage of President Trump and national politics for the latest news and analysis<\/a><\/p>\n

The ruthless personal attacks that Trump leveled against DeSantis during the primary \u2014 including referring to the Florida governor as \u201cRon DeSanctimonious<\/a>\u201d \u2014 have since given way to kinder regards.<\/p>\n

The president declared DeSantis a\u00a0\u201c10 out of 10 \u2014 maybe 9.9,\u201d\u00a0when touring the Republican governor\u2019s\u00a0\u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d detention facility for illegal immigrants in the Everglades in July.<\/p>\n

The Sunshine State will also host the president\u2019s eventual library \u2014 and the governor has already signed Florida bills to rename roads and even the airport near Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate after him.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, DeSantis further praised Trump\u2019s executive action <\/a>aimed at \u201crestoring order, fairness, and stability\u201d in college athletics by, among other things, only allowing student athletes to transfer to a different school once without the penalty of being forced to sit out a season.<\/p>\n

Most recently, DeSantis pushed new congressional maps in Florida that could net Republicans four more House seats in the 2026 midterms as Trump fights to keep Congress under GOP control.<\/p>\n

Trump has reshuffled his cabinet in recent months, ousting Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary, Pam Bondi as attorney general and Lori Chavez-DeRemer as labor secretary.<\/p>\n

The president has yet to nominate a permanent replacement for the AG and Labor posts.<\/p>\n

The Florida governor has previously expressed interest in the position of defense secretary or attorney general, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal and Axios.<\/p>\n

DeSantis\u2019s second term as governor ends in January 2027.<\/p>\n

A rep for the governor did not respond to a Post request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump said Friday he would consider appointing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to a cabinet position next year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[409,28,30,29,99,412,4278],"class_list":["post-255200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-donald-trump","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-politics","tag-ron-desantis","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}