Who knew? Trump 2.0 has a Cabinet that is impressive with their star power. J.D. Vance, Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio. Killing it with every move they make. Remember Trump 1.0, Rex Tillerson and General James Mattis? They were old guys who were capping off their careers and not clear on who was the boss. So, glad for Trump 1.0 so that Trump knew what he wanted for Trump 2.0. Secretary Rubio is an algebraic upgrade from old Tillerson. That’s why Rubio wears four hats now.

Back in February 2013, Marco Rubio was a laughing stock when he gave the response to Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address. He reached for the tiny water bottle and was mock…mercilessly.

Looks like Little Marco Rubio is still big on NSA surveillance and arming Syrian rebels. Libertarians warned about government overreach, but Marco is living his "hold my water bottle" moment. pic.twitter.com/hSIUWj3uVA

— Karl Dickey (@karldickey) May 3, 2025

But Trump picked Rubio to be the Secretary of State for 2.0 and Marco Rubio has been a rock star. So first he got the plum job in this Administration but has added National Security Advisor, Archivist and head of USAID, the money laundering organization.

This time Trump 2.0 picked eager men who are still looking to fulfill the destinies rather than tired, old men with Big Egos. Young men who are not confused about to the President is or what people voted for. The Raw Story sees it a bit differently:

In the wake of the United States dropping bombs on Iran, New York Times Opinion Writer Frank Bruni is railing against the “coterie of toadies” who are supposed to be advising President Donald Trump on such actions.

“President Trump dropped 15-ton bombs on uranium enrichment sites in Iran with Tulsi Gabbard as his director of national intelligence and Pete Hegseth as his defense secretary,” Bruni said, “I, for one, am not comforted.”

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Bruni noted that complaints about the motley crew of advisors Trump has chosen are not new. However, it has now become a different story “to confront their inappropriateness when an impulsive, mercurial president takes a risk this enormous, commencing the kind of military intervention he long railed against, in a combustible region that he previously expressed such wariness about.”

The opinion writer also railed against Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio who, along with Hegseth, stood around Trump Saturday evening “with such strenuously blank expressions, such erect postures, it was as if they’d been turned into automatons and feared that any tiny twitch might be interpreted as doubt or disagreement.”

Claiming Vance and Rubio are “less devoted to complementing Trump than to complimenting him,” Bruni is hoping for a confident voice to arise from the wake of the strikes on Iran.

“What [Trump] needs at a juncture like this are confident confidants who can play devil’s advocate, not a coterie of toadies who whisper sweet nothings in his ear—or have nothing valuable to whisper at all,” Bruni said.

Oh, whaaah, cry hard, opinion writer. You think this group of cabinet bros. are a bunch of ass kissers? Maybe GWOT kids like Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth have life experience that might allow them greater insights.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was pretty forceful yesterday with Maria Bartiromo and Trump didn’t write the script

Here is what the Daily Signal wrote:

Iran Must Communicate Directly With US: ‘They Want to Pass Messages and Notes Like We’re in Third Grade’

If Iran retaliates for Saturday night’s air strikes, it will be the worst mistake it’s ever made, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday morning.

“If they attack us, then I think we have capabilities they haven’t even seen yet. It would be a terrible mistake on their part,” Rubio told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”

Rubio said Iran can have civil nuclear programs like other countries around the world, but it will continue to have problems, both with the U.S. and “many other countries in the world,” if it wants “some secret program” that “looks a lot like you’re trying to build a bomb.”

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When it comes to other countries in the Middle East like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, Rubio said the U.S. works “very cooperatively with them.”

“The only reason we have U.S. bases in the region … is because they are afraid that Iran will attack them, and they want us there to help defend them,” Rubio said. “These countries fully recognize the threat that Iran poses.”

Additionally, Iran needs to start talking directly to the U.S. Said Rubio, “We always have to have a middleman—they want to pass messages and notes like we’re in third grade—we’re not doing that anymore.”

Yeah boy! And then there is the total humiliation of the deserving Margaret Brennan:

Marco Rubio is a phenomenal Secretary of State.

"Why would you bury things in a mountain 300ft under the ground? Why do they have 60% enriched uranium. The only countries that have uranium at 60%, are countries that have nuclear weapons."

"Why do they have a space program?" pic.twitter.com/2Z8B2OeCxU

— Thomas Hern (@ThomasMHern) June 22, 2025

Marco Rubio is the Secretary of State we needed. He is the bomb. Oh, too soon?

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