“Remains very dignified...”
Possible. But his handlers (Griffin, et al) and surrogates are already attacking Trump behind the scenes.
DeSantis will do exactly what his money men tell him to do - full stop. Not so with Trump.
I’m afraid Ron is being bullied into running.
Trump has boatloads of enemies already, so a few more from DeSantis supporters won't make much difference. But the ONLY people attacking DeSantis, are Trump and his supporters. Sure that might change, but it might not. Not in the same way Trump is attacked. A lot of people are just turned off by a big mouth braggadocios rich guy, independent of politics.
DeSantis will do exactly what his money men tell him to do - full stop. Not so with Trump.
Trump has his own set of big money donors, it's a fable that he doesn't. Almost all of his business money came from foreign banks too. He's hardly got clean hands in this regard. There's a strong case that's been made by some that Sheldon Adelseon, the dual Israeli citizen who was Trump's biggest donor, was behind Trump's decision to move their embassy, for example.
I’m afraid Ron is being bullied into running.
Could be. It certainly wouldn't be easy, to have to deal with being Governor, and take on Trump at the same time, and that's even assuming Trump supporters won't block that vote to allow him to do both in the Florida legislature.
I think he's playing it perfectly right for now. Be the bigger man above Trump's childish rants, continue to propose and implement a strong conservative agenda in his state, and see what pitfalls may await Trump over the next several months.