DeSANTIS: I WANT TO BE YOUR PRESIDENT, EVEN THOUGH I HATE PEOPLE

A few thoughts about this news:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will announce he is running for president during a discussion with Twitter CEO Elon Musk....

Musk and DeSantis will host an event on Twitter Spaces, the site’s platform for audio chats, on Wednesday at 6 p.m. ET. It will be moderated by David Sacks, a tech entrepreneur who is a Musk confidant and DeSantis supporter.

First, I know we spend all of our waking hours hunched over phones, and I know DeSantis thinks this campaign announcement makes him look like a 21st-century guy (as opposed to his principal rival, who's old enough to be his father) -- but DeSantis is also a candidate who's becoming notorious for hating to be around people. This conveys the impression that DeSantis is flaunting his misanthropy.

Also, this comes after Republicans have spent years attacking Joe Biden for campaigning in 2020, as they like to put it, "from his basement." It was the first year of COVID, so normal people understood why Biden campaigned that way; Biden won't campaign that way next year, because he actually likes people and enjoys human interaction. But DeSantis now looks as if he's campaigning from a protective bunker.

And have DeSantis and Rupert Murdoch broken up? I saw yesterday that a panel on Fox Business was criticizing DeSantis for his attacks on Disney, while echoing a Donald Trump attack line:

“Everything about Florida that you love – Desantis inherited,” [Marc] Simone said. “The no state tax, all that stuff. He’s done a great job of running it. But most of that was inherited....”

Fox was once all in for DeSantis and totally over Trump, but now the only story about DeSantis's announcement on the FoxNews.com front page is "Trump Campaign Mocks DeSantis' Expected Twitter Presidential Campaign Announcement," a story in which an unnamed Trump adviser gets it right:

"Announcing on Twitter is perfect for Ron DeSantis," a Trump adviser told Fox News Digital. "This way he doesn’t have to interact with people, and the media can’t ask him any questions."

Finally, DeSantis has voters, but you can imagine that he'd really like to have stans -- worshipful superfans who describe his every move as an act of genius. Musk has that. DeSantis must hope it will rub off.

We'll see if Musk can get through the event without saying something white supremacist, making an infantile sex joke, or smoking weed. Or maybe he'll just conclude that DeSantis is so personally unpleasant that even he, one of the world's biggest assholes, can't stand to be around him.