You seem to expect a cabinet officer to be
1. qualified and
2. willing to speak truth to power.
Most Trump picks have neither quality.
Rubio is basically qualified, but there is no Republican inside the Beltway who is willing to tell Trump anything he doesn't want to hear. Courage? Hah.
While Rubio might be weak, Obama started the Ukraine war with 2014 coup of elected Ukraine President. US goal for decades was surrounding Russia with NATO. Obama also destroyed Libya in 2011 & tried destroy Syria 2011. Both Republican & Democrat Presidents are warmongers or they get assassinated
You are supposing that Donald Trump is not fully aware that Russia invaded Ukraine. Of course he knows this. Of course he doesn’t care. He lies effortlessly and constantly, as a way of harming his enemies (anyone poorer, weaker, or resistant to his threats) or to justify his various idiocies
The shibboleth that it was Ukraine that started the war is a longstanding part of Russian propaganda. The Trump regime is now openly adopting it. Trump knows very well what he is doing.
Generally stay way from “tried to tell you” statements, but those of us not of the conservative persuasion, who are also pretty good at truly assessing people for what they are, could have easily explained Rubio was an utterly spineless quisling when he was being touted for GOP greatness.
When Rubio let Trump say bad things about his wife and get away with it, he proves that he has no spine. That he was born spineless. And that he can’t get a transplant because he doesn’t have a place where they go. He’s all rubber.
Russia won't negotiate for peace unless they can have the whole of Ukraine. Trump want the minerals. This series of 'meetings' will come to nothing except allow Putin to feel he is not isolated internationally any more. He won't be accepted into the G7 and has been indicted by the ICC. Pariah!
That is what he's become. He went from a halfway decent person standing in the middle of the College Hill Library voting precinct helping people get INTO the polls, to a spineless, sold-out idiot who wouldn't know decency if it was a fish that leapt out of the Gulf of Mexico and hit him in the face.
"You should’ve ended it after three years. You should’ve never started it. You could’ve made a deal." So, here we are rewriting history and siding with PUTIN. WAKE UP PEOPLE - is this really what you voted for??? This is your leader speaking, too cowardly to stand up for our allies! Disgraceful.
And while the powers decide what will be done without Ukraine's inoput Russia continues to bomb Kyiv, just as Israle continues hostility against Palestinians. Trump doesn't care.
Trump has surrounded himself with knee benders and ring kissers. Rubio and every other cabit member will echo Trump's position, even when they know it's wrong .
Each person in Trump's orbit has scarificed their moral integrity anc courage to get there. We should never expect otherwise.
They all make me sick to my stomach. These people are severely warped and feckless. Their story is spineless and pathetic. All of them are enablers of completely destroying our country. I wonder how their families feel about that......
We need to point out what is happening…..Trump/Rubio are committing us to working with PUTIN/RUSSIA AGAINST UKRAINE……I do not think folks realize that is what is happening…
Rubio appears to have been severed, but they keep him working as his ‘innie’ all the time. Maybe he was an early adopter of Musk’s experimental brain implants.
We all knew who Marco is. We have seen what weak and insecure little douchebag he is. It is why Trump hired him and no one should be surprised by his unprincipled actions.
I don't consider the spinelessness of Republicans to be all that newsworthy anymore. Get back to me when one of them goes out and bites a dog. Now that's news.
Imagine being smart enough to know you will be nothing more than a castrated mouthpiece , but resign yourself to that because you want to cosplay Sec of State.
JR. The only reason why Donald picked little marco. It was the absolutely worst possible choice. "Fired.. didn't like little marco, barely knew him." Smh
IMO It isn't about Trump's idiocy (which is certainly clear for all to see). It's that Musk and Trump are so beholden to Putin that they will simply echo his talking points. There's no one in the US government who can "explain" this to Trump. He already has his marching orders.
Turns out, Mexico and New Zealand are negotiating now the end of Mexico-USA Gulf naming conflict. Upon new elections in the USA, Mexico will get mineral rights from the Gold Nugget in Las Vegas
“Mr Rubio appeared on morning shows and then at Texas rallies to describe the billionaire businessman as, among other things, a "con-artist" who was hijacking the Republican party.”
This is what happens when you let mainstream media be owned by billionaires who have other interests. There should be a control limit on news companies so that no one person, or small group, can control reporting. There used to be a law that they had to be more than empty opinion vessels.
They know they'll never get an answer. Every republican must take a class on how to ramble and never produce anything of value. They're use to , Margaret on meet the press (sun a m) tries but often fails too. They've always been b s
Why is anyone shocked ? I watched him get owned by a 17 year old during CNN's town hall on guns after the Stoneman Douglas mass murder. It was absolutely pathetic. A sitting US Senator getting lassoed and roped by a HS senior.
Rubio is, and always has been, the epitome of pathetic cowardice. He has zero integrity and even few ethics and morals. With all that this country has done for his Cuban family, he treats this country with contempt and scorn. Would love to seem him rafted back to Cuba.
“Marco I won 3 elections (including the rigged 2020 one, they treated me horribly). How many did you win? No, Senate doesn’t count, Senate is for pansies.”
Little Marco Rubio has always been a spineless coward only interested in advancing his own ambition, now he's acting as Trump's quisling. Rubio has no bottom, but then neither does Trump.
Media has to press on that shit everytime he blatantly lies like that!!! 🤬🤬🤬. Otherwise they just give him a platform to repeat, repeat, and repeat lies!!!
😤😤😤. Media has to get a spine!!!
Please stop believing that Trump believes what he says. Yes, he's an idiot but he's a con man and knows very well that what he's spouting are lies and slanders and propaganda. You don't think Putin believes his propaganda, neither does Trump.
Marco Rubio is nothing but a coward and political hack! Zero integrity! Zero honesty! He is not worthy to be Secretary of State. He is an embarrassment to our country. Disgraceful!
This is great optics. The CIA is flying drones in Mexico to keep an eye on the cartels. While Trump was freaking out about drones in the US, he thinks it’s okay to spy on Mexico?
I don’t think he does know that. He lives in a Russia fueled disinformation bubble, as do many of his Tucker-loving supporters. Trump has never described Russia as the aggressor or accurately portrayed the events of 2022.
How do you think he got elected? Even Nixon once said of Bush the Elder he'll do whatever we tell him. And Bush the Dummy created the Middle East mess that continues 22 yrs later.
Rubio has a documented history of being weak and a pathological liar. Trump nominated Rubio to be Secretary of State in return for the Cuban exile community’s financial & PR support for Trump, including but not limited to, Mercedes Cubas, Judge Aileen Cannon’s mother, and Judge Cannon herself.
Rubio is the point man for the State Department to negotiate with the Russians who are tough negotiators? Who expects that to work out well and to our satisfaction and benefit? I hope it does not turn out to be a demonstration of American incompetence at the highest level of diplomacy.
I'm sorry, no one needs to explain to Trump whom invaded Ukraine. In my 60yrs of life on Planet Earth, I've never know a more disgusting liar than Donald Trump!
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him Liddle Marco.
1. qualified and
2. willing to speak truth to power.
Most Trump picks have neither quality.
Rubio is basically qualified, but there is no Republican inside the Beltway who is willing to tell Trump anything he doesn't want to hear. Courage? Hah.
https://www.univision.com/univision-news/politics/drug-case-comes-close-to-home-for-floridas-rubio
I hope the endorphins are worth it.
Each person in Trump's orbit has scarificed their moral integrity anc courage to get there. We should never expect otherwise.
https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1892110401510187075?s=48&t=aGoK0oYzCS_OUQuyIY_NxQ
Speaking of corruption, any media outlet going to discuss Manafort & Giuliani? Trump's attempt to extort Ukraine?
https://www.propublica.org/article/lets-recall-what-exactly-paul-manafort-and-rudy-giuliani-were-doing-in-ukraine
Donate to Ukraine
If the US couldn’t take a divided Vietnam, then Russia sure as fuck can’t take a united Ukraine.
Europe still has your back. #StandWithUkraine
If they had one to begin with.
Rubio is just one of the Team of Losers (apologies to Doris Kearns Goodwin),
#FelonDon #Fascists #SlavaUkraini
“Mr Rubio appeared on morning shows and then at Texas rallies to describe the billionaire businessman as, among other things, a "con-artist" who was hijacking the Republican party.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35674780.amp
Reporter: asks question.
Trump/Rubio/Etc.: just straight up LIE!
Reporter: Thank you for your time.
(No follow ups, no pushback, no “But that’s not true, Sir”)
They just roll over like a puppy wanting a belly rub. 🙄
(My Puppy would be a better Journalist) 🙄
No further explanation necessary.
Incompetence Leavened With Malignity
The Trump administration’s Ukraine policy is liable to end in disaster.
Note the utter incompetence of the Trump team
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/rubio-putin-trump-ukraine/681730/
“Marco I won 3 elections (including the rigged 2020 one, they treated me horribly). How many did you win? No, Senate doesn’t count, Senate is for pansies.”
And, it wouldn't matter anyway.
Trump doesn't care who started the war.
He just wants to get the credit for ending it.
It must be the required price for having a spot in The Regime.
So is X's father, who told X "that Trump guy is not really the president. I am."
Megalomaniacal sociopaths. Ya gotta love them
😤😤😤. Media has to get a spine!!!
That's EXACTLY why he was hired.
He just doesn’t care.
Bet ya the Kurds are saying I TOLD YOU SO
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-betrayed-us-fleeing-kurds-condemn-u-s-decision-to-leave-syria