Who's Running America... Trump's Top Diplomat (Marco Rubio)

Americast

BBC

Politics, Government, News

4.2 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Our latest mini series is here and this time we're profiling some of the key players in Donald Trump's presidency, who are now running America. Over the next few weeks, new profiles will drop every Sunday.

We start with Marco Rubio, the one-time presidential hopeful in 2016 who famously fell out with Trump when vying for the Republican nomination. The pair have since patched things up, but how did the man once coined as the Republican Party's equivalent to Barack Obama end up as America's top diplomat, and how has his background as the son of Cuban immigrants shaped his politics today?

HOST: * Sarah Smith, North America Editor

GUESTS: * Matt Terrill, Former Chief of Staff, Marco Rubio Campaign 2016 * Nahal Toosi, Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Politico

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0:00.0	Hello, AmeriCasters. There are more of you now with us than ever before, and we'd like to try to keep it that way.
0:06.6	So, do subscribe and tell people if you're enjoying what you're hearing. Now, on with the episode.
0:13.7	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.
0:17.1	Hello, you're listening to one of a special AmeriCast mini-series about the people who are running America.
0:22.7	We're going to take a closer look at the people who are in Trump's top team.
0:26.1	The names you're going to be hearing in the news, who they are, their background, how they got there, what they're going to do in the roles.
0:31.3	And most crucially in this administration, how they're likely to get on with Donald Trump.
0:36.4	And we're going to start with Marco Rubio, America's most senior diplomat.
0:40.6	He's the son of Cuban immigrants, who is a senior figure in the Republican Party.
0:44.2	In fact, he ran against Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2016,
0:48.4	and they had a pretty big, very public falling out then,
0:51.9	that resulted in Marco Rubio saying that Trump was a con artist,
0:55.6	whose leadership was dangerous, and Trump famously mocked him as Lil Marco, a nickname he struggled
1:00.8	to get rid of. Well, fast forward eight years, and he's now just been overwhelmingly confirmed
1:07.2	by the Senate, Republicans and Democrats alike, as Trump's Secretary of State, one of the
1:12.2	most senior roles in the government. So how did we end up here? And what does it mean for the next
1:17.2	four years? Welcome to AmeriCast. Americaast. Americaast from BBC News. God spared my life for a reason.
1:28.3	Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
1:32.7	A star is born, Elon.
1:34.5	I'm not just MAGA.
1:36.0	I'm dark Gothic MAGA.
1:38.1	This is what happens when the machine comes after you.
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