From DJ’ing a wedding on the weekend to manning the White House press podium like a boss, from velvet-gloved diplomacy in Europe to juggling the roles of secretary of state and NSA director in the middle of a war, Marco Rubio is the administration’s secret charm bomb.
President Trump rolls him out whenever he has a problem to solve.
Whether it’s filling in as national archivist, blowing cartel drug boats out of the water, DOGEing USAID to death or sitting as vice chairman of the “Saving College Sports” council, Rubio is Trump’s Mr. Fix-it.
His Tuesday stint filling in for White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is on maternity leave, became a viral sensation on several fronts: his casual use of rap and hip-hop lyrics like “insane in the brain” (Cypress Hill) to describe the Iranian leaders and his warning that they “should check themselves before they wreck themselves” (Ice Cube) earned him cool dad credits with the press pool.
When a reporter asked him for his “DJ name” because a video doing the rounds on social media over the weekend showed him spinning tracks at a family wedding, Rubio dryly replied: “You’re not ready for my DJ name.”
He was at turns charming, self-deprecating, good-humored and eloquent, smoothly answering every question with useful information, effortlessly switching to Spanish if asked, and eliciting laughter from the room with occasional wisecracks.
Joking about his difficulty identifying reporters to call on, he said: “They gave me a little map. I don’t know where I put it, of the people here. Some of you had, like, red X’s. I’m kidding . . . that’s not true. “
Later, he quipped, “This is chaos, guys.”
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