Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) reported consideration for the secretary of state role in Donald Trump’s second administration prompted the senator’s earlier, fierce criticism of the president-elect to go viral on social media.
Rubio is now a trustworthy and staunch supporter of Trump and can presumably flip into his prime diplomat. But he was one amongst Trump’s best critics when he unsuccessfully ran in opposition to him throughout the 2016 Republican presidential main.
At the time, the Florida lawmaker in distinction the then-reality TV character to a “third-world strongman” and warned that “for years to come, there are many people on the right, in the media, and voters at large, that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump because this is not going to end well, one way or the other.”
“For years to come, there are many people on the right… that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump.”
-Marco Rubio (2016), who was merely named Trump’s Secretary of State pic.twitter.com/NE9Ai3E8gU
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) November 12, 2024
Rubio moreover talked about: “Donald Trump, a con artist, will never get control of this party.”
And, “We cannot allow a con artist to get access to the nuclear codes of the United States of America.”
“I will make this promise to you today, I will do whatever it takes….Donald Trump, a con artist, will never get control of this party…We cannot allow a con artist to get access to the nuclear codes of the United States of America.”
-Marco Rubio in 2016 pic.twitter.com/8DGHz3O6Pv
— Natalie F Danelishen (@Chesschick01) November 12, 2024
Rubio once more then moreover joked regarding the dimension of Trump’s arms (hinting regarding the dimension of his rival’s penis), prompting Trump all through the foremost debate to make sure there’s “no problem” down there.
Trump gave an excellent as he obtained, though, nicknaming Rubio as “little Marco” and calling him a “lightweight” who “I wouldn’t hire to run one of my smaller companies – a highly overrated politician!”
Trump is predicted to select Marco Rubio to be his Secretary of State.
I’m sure Marco would hate it in case you RTed this clip of him saying
if Trump hadn’t inherited $200 million {{dollars}}, he’d be a selling watches in Manhattan.”— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) November 12, 2024
Rubio, nonetheless, later turned one in every of Trump’s greatest allies and was even reportedly within the combine to grow to be his working mate.
That function finally went to JD Vance.