Governor DeSantis, the Opposition's Loudest Voice Against the White House, Calls the President's Children's Savings Accounts 'One of the Best Things He's Done' and Urges Families to Sign Up

TALLAHASSEE — Governor DeSantis, who has spent most of the current administration as the opposition's most prolific critic of the President, surprised a press conference about his own state's children's savings program Friday by declaring the President's competing federal accounts one of the best things the President has done and encouraging families to open both.

The federal program, which launched last month, seeds an investment account with $1,000 for children born during the President's term and carries the President's name, a branding decision the governor said families should look past. 'Don't fall prey to the politics or the cynicism or maybe even the fear,' the governor said, 'that if I download one of these accounts, somehow that means something.' His office said it meant only that the governor likes savings accounts.

Governor DeSantis went further, praising the two senators from opposite parties who wrote the legislation and offering a glowing review of the First Lady's initiative to bring foster children into the program, remarks that the First Lady's office welcomed and the governor's own party's activists received the way one receives a compliment from across the aisle during an election year, which is to say by checking whether the microphone was on.

Supporters of the President, who regard the governor as a partisan showman, were divided on whether to accept the praise or suspect it. Supporters of the governor, who regard the President as a menace, were divided on whether the governor had gone soft or gone long, the latter being the theory that a man considering a national campaign had just bought himself a clip for the general election.

"Good policy is good policy," the governor said, a position he has not historically extended to the rest of the President's policies, the President's cabinet or the President.

The Press's bipartisan desk notes that 'putting families over party' and 'triangulating for 2028' are the same sentence, and which one it is depends on which party's governor said it about which party's president. At press time both piggy banks remained on the podium, and the governor's staff was reviewing which one to be photographed with.