Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) reported consideration for the secretary of state role in Donald Trump’s second administration prompted the senator’s previous, fierce criticism of the president-elect to go viral on social media.
Rubio is now a faithful and staunch supporter of Trump and will presumably turn into his prime diplomat. But he was one in all Trump’s greatest critics when he unsuccessfully ran in opposition to him within the 2016 Republican presidential major.
At the time, the Florida lawmaker in contrast 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 simply named Trump’s Secretary of State pic.twitter.com/NE9Ai3E8gU
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) November 12, 2024
Rubio additionally mentioned: “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 again then additionally joked concerning the dimension of Trump’s arms (hinting concerning the dimension of his rival’s penis), prompting Trump throughout the major debate to ensure there’s “no problem” down there.
Trump gave a very good as he obtained, although, 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 pick Marco Rubio to be his Secretary of State.
I’m certain 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 promoting watches in Manhattan.”— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) November 12, 2024
Rubio, however, later became one of Trump’s biggest allies and was even reportedly in the mix to become his running mate.
That role eventually went to JD Vance.
