Marco Rubio

“A billion viewers worldwide will witness America commemorating its 250th birthday with the White House as a backdrop and some of the finest athletes competing in that octagon. For them to witness this event with their White House in the backdrop, as part of our national celebration of 250 years, I believe is a gift to the American people.”

— State Department Speech

Notes:

UFC 250 was on 6th of June, Trump. The UFC event didn't draw even close to 1B views. According to the UFC, it drew 34M viewers worldwide https://www.ufc.com/news/ufc-freedom-250-delivers-34-million-total-global-viewers.

“Look! I'm sure that there are people the made comments online and other places, because every country in the world has stupid people. I'm sure there are stupid people here. There are stupid people in the United States that make dumb comments all the time. ”

— An answer during a press conference in India

Notes:

Was an answer to a question by a reporter during Marco's visit to India about racist comments made against India and Indians. Marco responded with the above statement not realising that the comments were shared by Trump.

“Today Brazil in our hemisphere, the largest country in the western hemisphere south of us, cut a trade deal with China. They're going from now on do trade in their own currencies, get right around the dollar. They're creating a secondary economy in the world totally independent from the United States. We'll not have to talk about sanctions in five years because there will be so many countries transacting in currencies other than the dollar that we will not have the ability to sanction them.”

— Fox News interview with Sean Hannity

Notes:

Good for them! Some key phrases to highlight his framing "our hemisphere", "get around the dollar", and "secondary economy". The attempt is to show it as an attack on, or an infringement of, the US economic rights.

“Donald Trump is not a Republican. Donald Trump is not a conservative. Donald Trump is trying to pull off the biggest scam in American political history. Basically a con job where he is trying to take over the Republican Party”

— CBS interview during his 2016 campaign

Notes:

He later endorsed Trump and joined his administration in 2024.