Earlier this month, the Daily Beast reported that Florida governor Ron DeSantis “enjoyed a chocolate pudding dessert—by eating it with three of his fingers” while aboard a private plane headed from Tallahassee to Washington, DC, in 2019. Is this the worst thing that DeSantis has ever done? Considering elementary school teachers in Florida aren’t currently allowed to mention the existence of gay people, obviously not. Is it nevertheless extremely revolting, and certainly the kind of thing someone with presidential ambitions would not want people to picture when they picture his (chocolate-stained?) face? You bet.

Yet pressed about the matter during a recent interview…DeSantis did not 100% deny it.

While chatting with the governor and would-be presidential candidate, Piers Morgan brought up the elephant in the room. “Have you ever eaten a chocolate pudding with three fingers?” the weird British import asked.

“I don’t remember ever doing that,” DeSantis responded, not very convincingly. “Maybe when I was a kid?” Here, we’d like to note that one would probably remember fashioning a scoop out of their fingers to desperately consume a chocolate pudding—although perhaps this is the kind of thing that you do in some kind of half-consciousness and later, have no idea why people are giving you weird looks. (In the Daily Beast’s original story, reporters Jake Lahut and Zachary Petrizzo quoted a source who said DeSantis “would sit in meetings and eat in front of people always like a starving animal who has never eaten before.”)

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After telling Morgan he couldn’t recall ever eating a chocolate pudding using three fingers in place of a spoon, DeSantis quickly attempted to pivot and frame the allegation as a good thing, saying: “It’s interesting, there’s a lot of people when they go at ya, sometimes they have like really good ammunition, like you’re a crook, you did this, you did that…for me they’re talking about pudding? Like is that really the best you’ve got? Okay, bring it on.”

“But now you’re not having puddings?” Morgan asked, returning to a topic the governor clearly wanted to forget.

“No, no, no puddings…that‘s sugar, man,” DeSantis said. (Earlier in the interview, asked how he’d slimmed down so much, the governor demurred before revealing: “I’m on a good regimen and will keep it going…I think the sugar is the biggest issue, because basically if you do sugar, your body burns sugar. If you don’t, it burns fat.”)

Quick reminder that both of these scenarios would be extremely bad

Mike Pence enters his “other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?” era

Elsewhere!

Judge says several Trump aides, including former chief of staff, must testify to Jan. 6 grand jury (CNN)

Prosecutors accept deal with George Santos in Brazilian fraud case (CNN)

How The Simpsons predicted Florida’s wild decision to fire a teacher for showing Michelangelo’s David (The Independent)

Trump Is Racing DeSantis to the Bottom of the Anti-vax Rabbit Hole (VF)

Black prosecutors rebut Trump’s baseless allegations of racism (MSNBC)

Ethics panel admonishes Lindsey Graham (NBC News)

Scientists May Have Gotten Duped Into Thinking Collectible Figurine Was Ultra-Rare Shark (Futurism)

Chris Martin No Longer Eats Dinner (VF)

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