For the benefit of folks who are unfamiliar with the flow of a Trump rally, there are often moments of silence during them. It's when the crowd is listening intently to what he's saying, positively immersed in his words. --- We see this with his rendition of "The Snake", stories from his interactions with enlisted men and women and the inner workings of financial negotiations. Besides, Trump is a master at reading a crowd. If he thought he was losing them, he would have shortened the DeSantis retell. He wasn't and he didn't.
When he finished, there wasn't applause, There was laughter and head shaking as more of the DeSantis mask was removed.
To RDS supporters: Pay equal attention to the crowd's reaction to Floridian Matt Gaetz's speech. He reminded the crowd that "if not for Donald Trump, we would have had Gov. Gillum". He then called on DeSantis to stand down and endorse Donald Trump. The crowd jumped up, cheered and let loose a sustained chant of "Trump, Trump, Trump!"