Sen. John McCain declined to say that Trump wasn’t a serious candidate on NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday, commenting that he would “let the people decide that.”

But he also took a swipe at Trump’s publicity-hounding reputation. “I think that Mr. Trump is having the time of his life,” McCain said. “I congratulate him for getting all the attention that he’s getting.”

McCain also said that he would be “very happy if Sarah Palin got in” and that he was “very happy with many of the governors that we have running now.”

Talking about the 2012 field, McCain said that there were “a lot of good candidates,” but said he had no plans to endorse any candidate right now.