Let’s talk about Rick Scott — Florida’s former governor, current U.S. Senator, and apparently the world’s least self-aware man.

This is the same Rick Scott who, in 2022, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Examiner titled — and this is real — “No one wants a woke mouse in their house.”

In it, he declared in writing: “Disney used to be the happiest place on Earth, now it’s just woke central.” He went on Fox News and told Maria Bartiromo directly: “I got rid of my Disney+, I’m not planning on going back to the park.” And he closed his op-ed with this gem, published on his official Senate website: “I’ll tell you one thing — I won’t be going back or watching Disney+ anytime soon, and I bet a lot more parents and grandparents are making that same choice.”

That wasn’t a passing comment. That was a coordinated culture war broadside — written, published, and amplified across conservative media — designed to whip up outrage and signal maximum loyalty to the anti-woke movement. He used Disney as a punching bag to fire up the base, to get attention, to play the game as hard as he possibly could.

And then, four years later, while thousands of federal workers are going without paychecks during a government shutdown that he and his colleagues have done nothing to resolve, Rick Scott was photographed strolling through Disney World with his family.

Scott posted the photo himself, preempting TMZ by writing: “Hey TMZ. Yes, I’m at Disney with my grandkids. Should we be in DC? Yes! But I don’t get to make that decision.”

Let’s sit with that response for a moment. His defense for vacationing at the place he publicly vowed to boycott — while federal employees miss rent payments — is essentially: not my problem. Leadership, ladies and gentlemen.

No explanation for the reversal. No acknowledgment of his own words. No apology to the people he encouraged to boycott Disney alongside him. Just a shrug, a photo op, and a tone-deaf attempt to get ahead of the story.

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And this is hardly the first time Rick Scott has said one thing and done another.

PolitiFact’s comprehensive review of Scott’s two terms as governor found that he kept roughly half of his campaign promises — with his most conservative pledges ending up “on the cutting room floor.” After bruising the public education budget with a $1.3 billion cut in his very first year, he vowed to spend more — and only partially delivered. On immigration, PolitiFact found that by 2014 Scott had “abandoned promises to get tough on illegal immigration” — the signature issue he ran on in 2010.

The pattern is consistent and it is long. Make the promise loudly. Collect the votes. Quietly forget it ever happened. Expect no consequences.

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This is the man MAGA holds up as a principled conservative fighter. A man who turned Disney into a political enemy for sport, used it to generate outrage and fundraise, told his supporters to cancel their subscriptions and stay away — and then walked through the gates of the Magic Kingdom the moment it was personally convenient.

Scott moved to Tallahassee on an outsider’s mission of snapping the state into conservative shape — and ended up being a politician who says whatever the moment demands and does whatever suits him personally when the cameras aren’t watching.

The culture war is a performance. The boycott was a performance. The outrage was a performance.

The only thing that’s real is that federal workers aren’t getting paid while this man poses for photos in front of Cinderella’s castle.

Hold him accountable. Don’t let him forget his own words. That’s exactly what he’s counting on you to do.