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President Donald Trump and the governor of Florida. Ron DeSantisa Republican, seems to have reached a milestone.
The president brushed aside their previous conflicts in July 2025 that stemmed from their rivalry in the 2024 election, and the two have since appeared to publicly chart a new course for their relationship as Florida supports Trump’s policies.
For example, DeSantis has endorsed several Trump administration agenda items, including the adoption of the “Making America Healthy Again” initiative launched by Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services.
As a result, DeSantis State launched its “Healthy Florida First” initiative in January, a statewide effort to test for contaminants in food products that DeSantis said is aligned with the administration’s priorities.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis discusses the state budget proposal during a press conference at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Rich Pope/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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“Our ‘Healthy Florida First’ initiative promotes innovation, ensures accountability and empowers Floridians to make the healthiest choices for their families. Transparency is essential to this mission,” DeSantis said in a statement Monday. “Today, the First Lady Casey DeSantisFlorida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo and I were proud to announce that Florida has expanded this initiative by evaluating other products marketed to children. Through these transparency efforts and our long-standing commitment to medical freedom, Florida is doing its part to help make America healthy again. »
The relationship between DeSantis and Trump collapsed when DeSantis emerged as a possible rival in the 2024 election, prompting Trump to claim that the Florida governor “desperately needs a personality transplant” after DeSantis formally announced his candidacy for the White House.
President Donald Trump speaks with Governor Ron DeSantis during a roundtable discussion at “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new migrant detention center at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Center, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
In June 2023, DeSantis said in an interview with “Good Morning New Hampshire” that Trump’s attacks were “juvenile” and said he believed a contributing factor to his loss in the Election 2020.
But the two men appeared to put the past behind them in 2025, when Trump reaffirmed that they had a “lot of respect” for each other.
“You are my friend and you will always be my friend,” Trump told DeSantis during a trip to the Florida Everglades to open an immigration detention center in July 2025. “We might even have some skirmishes in the future, I doubt it. But we’ll always come back because we have blood that seems to be a pretty good match.”
DeSantis and Trump visit “Alligator Alcatraz” in Ochopee, Florida on July 1, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-ReynoldsAFP via Getty Images)
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The White House and DeSantis have been contacted by Fox News Digital for comment.
Although DeSantis cannot run for governor again in 2026 once his term expires, he has recently weighed in on the issue. 2026 midterm electionsand told conservative commentator Mark Levin that he believed Democrats would seek to concoct a plan to impeach Trump, should they regain control of the House.
“They will do everything they can – including, probably, trying to fabricate another indictment — to be able to throw sand in the gears to prevent the president from carrying out the duties for which he was elected,” DeSantis said in an interview Tuesday on “The Mark Levin Show.”
