He’s playing Fox New’s game against them. GOP and their media outlets want to make him him the bad guy for canning one of their own.

So he’s getting out ahead of it and saying all this stuff he knows Republican voters will agree so anyone who tries to smear him looks like deep state establishment that are entrenched in Washingtons ways. Not that he probably expects it to pass but it will give him a leg up if or rather when he tries to get Florida Governor in 2026 sincr DeSantis can’t run again due to term limits.