MSNBC's Psaki piles on Marco Rubio for letting Trump humiliate him in front of reporters
Ridicule of Secretary of State Marco Rubio for sitting slumped on a couch in the Oval Office as Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance berated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky last Friday has not abated and MSNBC's Jen Psaki got in her shots on Sunday afternoon.
Rubio, who has been on the receiving end of widespread mockery after his couch posture was memorialized in hundreds of memes, has also been castigated for being a huge supporter of Zelensky as well as Ukraine, until a switch was flipped when Trump picked him for his Cabinet.
That has put the former GOP senator from Florida in the unenviable position of defending not only Trump's obvious hostility towards the war-torn country, preferring Vladimir Putin and Russia instead, but Rubio's own past comments about the three-year-old war are now under the microscope.
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As Psaki explained, before sharing a supercut of Rubio's pro-Ukraine comments, "Remember, this is a guy who, as a senator and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, used to be a pretty staunch Russia hawk. The Rubio we used to know would surely would have had a lot to say about all of this. There's really no better way to show all of you that than using Rubio's own words to rebut some of Trump's most outrageous statements from the past two weeks."
Following sharing the clips, she added, "What has changed, it seems, is you, Marco Rubio. Because Senator Rubio is now Secretary Rubio in the second Trump administration and what he claimed to believe for years is completely at odds with the administration's current posture."
"It's not clear whether he even cares," he MSNBC host suggested. "I mean, I can't read his mind, obviously, but maybe he's given up on America as a leader on the global stage. Maybe he's given up on opposing authoritarian regimes, given up on democracy and defending alliances like NATO. But if Secretary Rubio does still believe even just one iota of what he said as a senator over the many years, that has good reason to feel uncomfortable right now."
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