Secretary of State Marco Rubio was the last of President Donald Trump’s cabinet members to speak during Thursday’s cabinet meeting and worked overtime to try and out-praise his colleagues in showering Trump with compliments.
“Well, Mr. President, one of the most important things I believe you’ll achieve in your presidency is reordering the world in a proper way,” Rubio began as Trump looked on with a frown.
“For 31 years, more than 31 years now, multiple administrations have allowed the Chinese to deindustrialize this country, to take away jobs and factories and pillars of our national strength. And what you’re doing now, I think, is a great service to our country, but ultimately to the world,” Rubio continued, referring to Trump’s global trade war and massive tariffs on China.
“And I want to congratulate you and your team that’s working on that because that has extraordinary geopolitical implications as you see from all of these other countries that are now coming here and wanting to join something that actually makes it just crazy to allow these, I mean basically we lived in a world where Chinese companies can do whatever they want in America,” Rubio said, adding:
But our companies cannot do anything over there unless they allow it. And even then, they steal our stuff and reverse engineer it. So just reordering all of that has dramatic implications on the peace and security of the world. So we thank you.
An important meeting, thanks to you, is going to happen on Saturday. For the first time in a long time, there’ll be direct talks between Ambassador Witkoff and a top-level leader in Iran. We hope that’ll lead to peace. You’ve been very clear what Iran is never going to have is a nuclear weapon. And I think that’s what led to this meeting.
And we’ll wait for him to come back from it. And we’re hopeful about that. But I would also say that we are receiving, and I think the Department of Homeland Security can confirm this, historic cooperation from countries all over the world, and number one in taking back their citizens. Every country in the world has to take back people that are illegally in another country.
And we have countries that refuse to do it or kind of ignore our calls. All of them are doing it. The ones that are not are paying a price. And we’ve also found cooperation in other countries that are willing to take some of these people, some very dangerous criminals, and how the President of El Salvador will be here next week has really been a good friend of the United States in that regard.
These are some of the worst people you’ll ever encounter and Pam [Bondi] knows this and Kristi [Noem] knows this from the work they’re doing.
And one last point I want to make, Mr. President, — and again, it’s under your leadership, it’s actually under your executive order — if you come to this country as a student, we expect you to go to class and study and get a degree. If you came here to, like, vandalize a library, take over a campus and do all kinds of crazy things, we’re going to get rid of these people.
And we’re gonna continue to do it. So when we identify lunatics like these, we take away their student visa. No one’s entitled to a student visa, the press covers student visas like there’s some sort of birthright. No, a student visa is like me inviting you into my home. If you come into my home and put all kinds of crap on my couch, I’m going to kick you out of my house. And so, you know, that’s what we’re doing with our country, thanks to the President.
“And last but not least, very important development this week, but both Pam and I are very excited. The finest higher education institution in the United States, the University of Florida, is also now the national champions in basketball, and we hope you’ll host them here soon, Mr. President. Go Gators,” Rubio said as Trump smiled and said, “They’re coming.”
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