UPDATE:
Based on other reporting this morning, it appears that Rubio has been officially selected, it just hasn’t been announced.
The Jewish Insider is very excited about this and other picks:
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped three leading members of his foreign policy team, reassuring traditional conservatives that the incoming president plans to pursue a muscular foreign policy — especially when it comes to deterring China and Iran, Jewish Insider Editor-in-Chief Josh Kraushaar writes.
Trump’s expected selection of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as secretary of state and Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) as national security advisor, bypassing other contenders seen as closer to the isolationist wing of the party, is being viewed as a major victory for the hawkish wing of the party.
Rubio, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is a stalwart supporter of Israel in the Senate and has been a consistent advocate for tough measures against Iran.
The Florida senator has strong relationships with the state’s sizable Jewish community, and has been a staunch defender of Israel’s military operations against Hamas and Hezbollah.
Rubio also sponsored legislation preventing any president from withdrawing the United States from NATO without approval from the Senate or an act of Congress — another sign of his internationalist credentials.
Waltz has also been deeply involved with national security issues on the Hill. He’s a Green Beret who served as a former policy official at the Pentagon, CEO of a defense contracting company, subcommittee chair on the House Armed Services Committee and member of the Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Committees.
Like Rubio, Waltz has been an outspoken backer of Israel and has led efforts to punish Iran for its malign behavior in the Middle East. Read more about Waltz’s foreign policy positions here.
“He’ll help Trump restore U.S. deterrence, which has been badly weakened, pressure the Tehran regime, and back Israel advancing both Israeli and U.S. security interests,” Jewish Institute for National Security of America President Michael Makovsky told JI’s Marc Rod.
Both Republicans have also scaled back their support for Ukraine to more closely align with Trump’s views. Both voted against the Ukraine funding legislation that passed through Congress this year on a bipartisan basis.
Rubio was a leader of an effort in the Senate to reinstate the Houthis’ designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Joining Waltz, who led the corresponding push in the House, it seems likely that the Trump administration will move quickly to redesignate the Iranian-backed Yemeni group. Read more here about Rubio’s record on Israel, Iran and antisemitism.
They will be joined on Trump’s foreign policy team by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who was tapped by the president-elect to serve as the ambassador to the United Nations. Stefanik saw her national profile burnished after her aggressive and effective questioning of university presidents about their lackluster handling of antisemitism on campus.
In her statement accepting the job, Stefanik highlighted antisemitism as one of the key issues that she’s aiming to tackle in her new role. In a hint to how she’ll approach her new role, Stefanik has repeatedly blasted the U.N. as systemically antisemitic.
“The work ahead is immense as we see antisemitism skyrocketing coupled with four years of catastrophically weak U.S. leadership that significantly weakened our national security and diminished our standing in the eyes of both allies and adversaries,” Stefanik said. Read more here.
Hopefully no one is surprised by the installation of a series of warmonger extremists hellbent on crushing opposition to Jewry.
Original article follows.
Previously: Trump Appoints “The White Nikki Haley” as UN Ambassador (Obsessed with Jews, The Ukraine, All of It)
This hasn’t happened yet, so maybe it’s not worth reporting, but there’s not much going on today.
Donald Trump is expected to tap U.S. Senator Marco Rubio to be his secretary of state, sources said on Monday, putting the Florida-born politician on track to be the first Latino to serve as America’s top diplomat once the Republican president-elect takes office in January.
Rubio was arguably the most hawkish option on Trump’s shortlist for secretary of state, and he has in past years advocated for a muscular foreign policy with respect to America’s geopolitical foes, including China, Iran and Cuba.
It’s so funny that Reuters thinks “first Latinx” is more important than “obsessed with war with everyone.”
He will also be the first homosexual Secretary of State.
On Sunday, I wrote a long article saying that we would not have to wait until he’s in office to know whether Trump is going all-in on war, as it will be obvious from his cabinet picks.
He said he didn’t want Nikki Haley or Mike Pompeo, and delusional people saw that as a rejection of the Jewish-neoconservative global war agenda. Then he went ahead and appointed a fatter version of Nikki Haley as UN Ambassador.
Just so, Marco Rubio is a 1-to-1 copy of Mike Pompeo.
People can act like these picks don’t matter and Trump will just run everything himself, but as we saw in the first Trump administration, personnel is policy.
The fact that the very first cabinet position announced was for the most extreme war shill anyone has ever even heard of is very telling, and you can expect the rest of the picks to follow suit.
Rubio for State was obvious for months now. We’ll wait and see if it’s official, but if he goes with someone else, it’s going to be just as bad.
Colonel Macgregor will not be Secretary of State, nor will Judge Napolitano be Attorney General. You’re going to get the worst people you’ve ever seen.