Failed presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, an Ambien pill come to life, believes so strongly in Donald Trump and his message of Making America Great Again that he endorsed him, but not so strongly that he can stop undermining the Republican front-runner every chance he gets.

“He has some major defects, there’s no question about it—just like the rest of us,” the retired neurosurgeon told radio host John Catsimatidis on Sunday, when he was asked why he supported the billionaire, who once compared Carson to a child molester. “But I think he is willing to listen to other people. He may not say that publicly because there is a humility issue there that could perhaps use some polishing.”

Regardless, Carson insisted that America’s lack of greatness overrode Trump’s character flaws. “Nobody believes in the government anymore,” he said. “Everybody believes that we are weak: we are weak on the world stage; we are not doing things that make sense economically. And he’s probably the person who is most likely to do that.

“Are there better people? Probably,” he added.

Despite his apparent ambivalence (“We’re only looking at four years,” he said recently, outlining the worst-case scenario), Carson has been crisscrossing the country on Trump’s behalf, most recently drumming up support for him in North Dakota, where the Trump, Ted Cruz, and John Kasich campaigns converged this weekend to sway the state’s uncommitted delegates ahead of this summer’s Republican National Convention. According to MSNBC, Carson argued that they should vote for Trump because Cruz “is too divisive.”

Carson’s perplexing support for Trump continues despite a weeks’ worth of increasingly horrifying statements by the New Yorker, who recently suggested that women who get illegal abortions should be punished that U.S. allies South Korea and Japan should have their own nuclear weapons (“it’s going to happen anyway”), and who argued that his campaign manager—charged with battery for manhandling a female reporter—was the victim of a media smear. In Trump World, however, the week of bad press was nothing more than a conspiracy. “The media themselves couldn’t wait to label the week, ‘THE WORST WEEK EVER,’” Trump campaign senior advisor Barry Bennett wrote in an internal memo, telling staffers that the “Washington Establishment” was just itching to take them down.

“America is sick of them. Their idiotic attacks just remind voters why they hate the Washington Establishment,” Bennett wrote, “Donald Trump 1 . . . Washington Establishment/Media 0.”