President Donald Trump had some exceptionally kind words for Secretary of State Marco Rubio as he listed what he claimed as his foreign policy achievements.
The praise for Rubio — Trump said he might go down as the “best” in his job — could boost the Florida Republican should he choose to pursue a bid for the presidency in 2028. Rubio has suggested he’s not interested in running, especially if Vice President JD Vance runs, but there’s still plenty of time to change his mind.
In the foreign policy section of his speech, Trump reiterated that he wants to try to resolve America’s differences with Iran through diplomacy, but hinted that military action remains an option. He said Iran won’t renounce any desire to have a nuclear weapon. In fact, Tehran has stated for years it has no intention of building such a weapon, but U.S. leaders have long been skeptical of such promises.
Trump also repeated his claims to have ended eight wars — some of which were not wars and some of which continue. He nodded to Russia’s war on Ukraine, saying only he’d keep working to end it.
He also praised the U.S. operation that removed Venezuelan autocrat Nicolas Maduro from power but kept on most of his regime, whose current leaders are coordinating a number of their moves with the U.S. Tuesday night’s dramatics involved the presence in the chamber of Enrique Marquez, a freed Venezuelan political prisoner, who reunited with his family in the U.S.
