Writer Dan Gelernter loves Donald Trump, he does. In a column for the MAGA publication American Greatness, he suggests Trump should run on a third-party ticket if the GOP doesn’t make him its 2024 presidential nominee. He compares the former president to the late President Teddy Roosevelt. So naturally, Trump, who thrives on constant fawning attention, shared Gelernter’s column on Truth Social, according to Raw Story.

Gelernter admits Trump running as a third-party candidate would guarantee another Democratic president, but it would teach them naughty, misbehaving Republicans a lesson about defying its base.

“I have no intention of supporting a Republican Party that manifestly contravenes the desires of its voters,” he wrote. “The RNC can pretend Trump isn’t loved by the base anymore, that he doesn’t have packed rallies everywhere he goes. But I’m not buying it: Talk to Republican voters anywhere outside the Beltway, and it is obvious that he is admired and even loved by those who consider themselves ‘ordinary’ Americans.”

He takes this a step further, adding in his editorial that “if the Republican Party thinks it’s not big enough for Trump, it’s not going to be big enough for me either.”

But recent polls don’t suggest Republican voters still “love” Trump, NBC News reports. One survey conducted earlier this month by The Wall Street Journal shows Florida Governor Ron DeSantis leading him by a healthy 52 percent to 38 percent. That news was shared by the usually Trump-loving folks at Fox News and another poll conducted by USAToday/Suffolk University showed DeSantis leading Trump by 56 percent over Trump’s 33 percent.

So it doesn’t sound like Republican voters “love” Trump. And in typical fashion, the ex-president is lashing out, accusing the polls of being “fake.”

“Great polling has just come out on me versus various others, including [President Joe] Biden, but I still have to put up with the same old ‘stuff’ from The Wall Street Journal, which has lost an incalculable amount of influence over the years, and Fox News, whose polls on me have been seriously WRONG from the day I came down the escalator in Trump Tower,” Trump fumed on Truth Social.

Because of course, he did. And Teddy Roosevelt tried the third-party gambit which is how we wound up with Democrat Woodrow Wilson in the White House in 1912.

So maybe it really is a good idea for Trump to run on a third-party ticket in 2024. Okay, forget I said that.