Rubio Masterfully Articulates Trump's 'America First' Foreign Policy In a Way Even Dems Can Understand
By Jennifer Van Laar | 3:55 PM on December 02, 2025
We got a lot of great news, and great sound bites, out of President Trump's Tuesday cabinet meeting, but it was Secretary of State Marco Rubio's five-minute report at the tail end of the meeting, in which he "laid out the clearest, most refreshing articulation of America First I’ve heard from any cabinet official in years," according to one X user, and I wholeheartedly agree.
Reflecting on the foreign policy achievements of the year since Trump won re-election to the presidency, Rubio said, "It’s an honor to be involved in and be a witness to what I believe is the most transformational year in American foreign policy since the end of the Second World War at least."
And he isn't using the word "transformational" in the way people like Barack Obama or Susan Rice would use the word, which is refreshing all by itself.
Rubio continued:
"And it's transformational because for the first time in a long time we have a president who basically puts America at the forefront of every decision we make in our in relations with the world. And that may sound weird to people, like, 'Of course you always do.' No. That hasn't always been the case, until about a year ago."
I know that Rubio was being rhetorical in a way, but nobody in their right mind can argue that Joe Biden's foreign policy had anything to do with putting the health and welfare of Americans as the top priority.Rubio then described President Trump's approach to foreign policy decision-making in his second term:
"We've all witnessed in our own respective spaces how in every interaction the president has with the world, the goal he has in mind is very simple: What you want us to do, is it going to make us stronger? Is it going to make us richer? Is it going to make us safer? If it is, he's for it. If it's not, he's against it. If something's going to make America weaker, or poorer, or less safe, the President's going to be against it, and every single thing he has done in our foreign policy has been driven by the American people in mind.
"And I can go down the list."
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