If Trump says something is “disloyal,” it doesn’t matter if he follows it up with “but they’ll get balloons and banana splits anyway, everyone is included,” every word after “disloyal” is just filler. One never gets away with being “disloyal” to Donald Trump. Ask any of the “impeachers” that Donald Trump spent so much time defeating (In GOP primaries, not in general elections, a whole new ballgame). You only come back from “disloyalty” by becoming more loyal than your original disloyalty. Given that it’s all transactional, the new offer better be enough to overcome the disloyal act.

It is hard to imagine coming up with an act “more loyal” than running to keep Trump out of the White House. Brian Kilmeade asked Trump about just that in a recent interview

In a Friday phone interview with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on The Brian Kilmeade Show, the former president avoided questions on when he would announce a run, should he choose to, but he also swiped at any potential Republican challengers from his own administration.

“Mr. President, when will you decide if you’re going to run in 2024? And how would you handle running against people in your cabinet like [Mike] Pompeo, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence?” Kilmeade asked Trump at the end of their chat.

“Well, many of them have said they would never run if I run. So, we’ll see whether or not that turns out to be true. I think it’d be very disloyal if they did [run], but that’s okay too. And the polls have me leading by 40, 50 points,” the former president claimed.

I think it would be very disloyal if they did, but that’s okay – too…

No. It is not okay, not the moment they throw their hat in the ring and actually run.

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