Mike Huckabee said Wednesday that he turned down President-elect Donald Trump's request that he take a place in his cabinet, and blasted the idea of making Mitt Romney the next secretary of state.

'I'm not talking about what it was,' the former Arkansas governor said on the 'Fox & Friends' program. 'I was offered a cabinet slot. I didn't think it was a great fit for me.'

Huckabee, a 61-year-old Baptist minister and former Fox News Channel host, also clobbered Romney in no uncertain terms.

'It's not about that I don't care for Mitt personally. But I'm still very unhappy that Mitt did everything he could to derail Donald Trump,' he said, painting the 2012 Republican presidential nominee as disloyal and wildly unpopular among Trump's electoral base.

'He didn't just go after him from the standpoint of "I disagree with his policy on immigration, I disagree with his policy on taxes." He attacked him on a personal level about his character, integrity, his honor.'

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Mike Huckabee said if Donald Trump chooses Mitt Romney as his secretary of state, it will send the wrong message to voters who elected him on the basis of promises to break with the GOP establishment

Huckabee blasted Romney, shown after meeting with Trump on Saturday, as a disloyal partisan who attacked Trump on a personal level eight months ago

Romney famously tore into Trump in March, telling a Utah audience that Trump was 'a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing members of the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House, and all we get is a lousy hat.'

Trump responded at the time by mocking Romney's groveling approach for the real estate tycoon's support in 2012.

'He was begging for my endorsement. I could have said, "Mitt, drop to your knees" – he would have dropped to his knees,' he said.

Eight months after the former Massachusetts governor said that 'dishonesty is Donald Trump's hallmark' and mocked his 'bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third-grade theatrics,' Trump is reportedly considering making him America's top diplomat.

'There is only one way that I think Mitt Romney could even be considered for a post like that,' Huckabee jabbed.

'And that is that he goes to a microphone in a very public place and repudiates everything he said in that famous Salt Lake City speech. And everything he said after that, where he said Donald Trump wasn't fit, that he lacked character – I mean, on and on.'

'When you go after a person who is the nominee of your party, who has been duly nominated by the voters ... you're savaging the voters. You're not just savaging Donald Trump,' Huckabee said.

'And so it would be a real insult to all those Donald Trump voters who worked really hard. That's what I think he has to stop and consider.'

.@GovMikeHuckabee: Choosing Mitt Romney as Secretary of State would be a big insult to all those who voted for Trump pic.twitter.com/hizFmHCEvJ — FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) November 23, 2016

Romney blasted Trump in March, devoting an entire speech to calling the eventual GOP nominee 'a phony, a fraud ... He's playing members of the American public for suckers'

Trump is risking outrage from his anti-establishment base by appointing moderate South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as his ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday

Trump swept to an unlikely victory over former secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Nov. 8 on the basis of promises to break with the GOP's moderate wing.

The president-elect's transition raised eyebrows among Trump loyalists on Wednesday morning when it signaled that he will make South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley – another establishment Republican – the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Haley grabbed headlines in January when she delivered the Republican response to President Barack Obama's final State of the Union address, cautioning Americans not to 'follow the siren call of the angriest voices.'

Trump, in the midst of contentious fights over the Iowa Caucuses and New Hampshire Primary, said the next day during a Palmetto State campaign rally that he would 'gladly accept the mantle of anger.'

'Our country is being run horribly ... Yes, I am angry, and I won't be angry when we fix it,' he said, calling for a complete repeal of the ObamaCare law and a new approach to medical care under the Veterans Administration.

Haley, at the time considered a potential running mate, was in the audience.

Huckabee insisted that he won't discuss which cabinet position Trump offered him

Huckabee insisted that he won't discuss which cabinet position Trump offered him.

He took pains to deny last Friday that he had been asked to serve as ambassador to Israel, after a high-level transition source told DailyMail.com that he had the job locked up.

'Never would discuss it,' he said on Fox, citing a need for both loyalty and confidentiality.

But he also hinted that he might have accepted a different post from the one he was offered.

'You know, if he tapped me for something that he really convinced me he really wanted to turn me loose and do some reforms, you've got to consider that,' Huckabee said.

In his typical aw-shucks twang, the two-time presidential candidate insisted that he has better things to do than work in the nation's capital.

'I didn't do anything I did for Donald Trump because I was elbowing for a government job,' he said. 'A lot of people really want it – I'm at a point in my life where I'm – I'm quite satisfied with not being in a government job.'