If the voters got to choose the senate minority/majority leader I’m convinced our side would pick Ted Cruz or Rand Paul.
LOL. Probably.
And we wouldn't likely pick Scalise for Speaker.
But that's my point: the House belongs to We the People; the Senate belongs (in theory) to the Several States. The Executive Branch needs to stay out of it. Like it or not, Donald Trump doesn't speak as a private citizen, he speaks as a (former) President.