Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) speaks during a House Judiciary Committee markup on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) built a public profile as an unapologetic, unambiguous, omnipresent booster of President Donald Trump.

Nor have almost any of the most prominent Trump surrogates or Trump-allied conservatives and media personalities, including Sean Hannity, Dan Bongino, Charlie Kirk or American Conservative Union Chair Matt Schlapp, at whose annual CPAC conference Gaetz had recently appeared.

And several people familiar with their relationship said Gaetz and Trump have not spoken regularly lately, even after the lawmaker had offered to resign from Congress to join the ex-president’s impeachment defense team in February.

As Gaetz has defended himself from the charges — with a TV appearance that left Fox News host Tucker Carlson stunned, and statements that denied the underlying charge but conceded that he was “generous as a partner” — that perception has only grown firmer.

His interview with Tucker was an absolutely embarrassing train wreck," said one Trump confidant.

Some Trump confidants regarded him as a leaker during Trump’s presidency who was as eager to use his association with the 45th president to lift his own career as he was to help Trump’s.

In an op-ed published Monday, a defiant Gaetz said he would not resign from Congress and compared his own predicament to allegations made against Trump and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whose Senate confirmation battle descended into chaos after he was accused of sexually assaulting a former high school acquaintance.

Gaetz, according to reports, had shown nude photos of women to colleagues of his while on the House floor

“If true, Matt had engaged in the very practice he’d defended me from,” Hill wrote in Vanity Fair

In his March 30 appearance on Carlson’s primetime show, Gaetz said his father, former Florida Senate president Don Gaetz, had worn a wire during a meeting with one of the individuals involved in the alleged extortion plot

“If you just saw our Matt Gaetz interview, that was one of the weirdest interviews I have ever conducted,” Carlson told viewers afterward