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president Donald Trump and the governor of Florida. Ron DeSantisRepublicans appear to be out of the woods.
In July 2025, the two men appeared to publicly chart a new course for their relationship as Florida backed Trump’s policies after the president brushed off their previous conflict over the 2024 election race.
For example, DeSantis has supported several Trump administration agenda items, including accepting “Make America Healthy AgainTrump’s Department of Health and Human Services launched an initiative.
As a result, DeSantis’ status has opened up.Healthy Florida FirstDeSantis said the move is consistent with the administration’s priorities.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis discusses the state’s budget proposal during a news conference at the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center in Orlando, Florida, Wednesday, December 10, 2025. (Rich Pope/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
“Our ‘Healthy Florida First’ initiative promotes innovation, ensures accountability and empowers Floridians to make the healthiest choices for their families. Transparency is critical to this mission,” DeSantis said in a statement Monday. “Today, the First Lady Casey DeSantisFlorida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, and I are proud to announce that Florida has expanded this initiative by evaluating additional products for children. Through these transparency efforts and our long-standing commitment to medical freedom, Florida is doing its part to help “Make America Healthy Again.” “
DeSantis and Trump’s relationship has frayed as DeSantis emerged as a possible rival in the 2024 election, prompting Trump to claim that the Florida governor was “desperately in need of a personality transplant” after DeSantis officially announced his bid for the White House.
President Donald Trump speaks with Governor Ron DeSantis during the “Alcatraz” roundtable on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Florida. “Alligator Island” is a new immigration detention facility within the Collier Training and Transition Facility in Dade. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
In an interview with “Good Morning New Hampshire” in June 2023, DeSantis said Trump’s attacks were “childish” and said he believed a factor in Trump’s election defeat 2020 election.
But the two appear to be putting the past behind them in 2025, with Trump reiterating that they have “Very respectful” For each other.
“You are my friend and you will always be my friend,” Trump told DeSantis in July 2025 during a trip to the Florida Everglades to open an immigration detention center. “We might even have some skirmishes in the future, I doubt it. But we’ll always come back because our bloodlines seem to be a good match.”
On July 1, 2025, DeSantis and Trump visited “Alcatraz” in Ochopee, Florida. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds AFP, Getty Images)
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Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and DeSantis for comment.
While DeSantis won’t be able to run for governor again in 2026 after his term expires, he recently weighed in on the issue. 2026 midterm electionsand told conservative commentator Mark Levin that he believed Democrats would seek to develop plans to impeach Trump if they regained control of the House.
“They will do whatever it takes – which may include trying Fabricating another impeachment — to be able to throw sand into the gears and prevent the president from doing the job he was elected to do,” DeSantis said in an interview on “The Mark Levin Show” on Tuesday.
