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According to the American press, the president-elect would have chosen the senator from Florida to become his secretary of state.
Loyals, skeptics of China, and Floridians: these seem to be, for the moment, the qualities required by Donald Trump to join his foreign policy team. Barely a week after his re-election, more than two months before his return to the White House, the president-elect is announcing these days the casting of his future administration, from his Mar-a-Lago golf course. And for the role of secretary of state, he seems to have set his sights on Florida senator Marco Rubio. Trump has not yet confirmed his name as head of American diplomacy – an appointment which will have to be confirmed by the Senate – but the American press has been announcing it in the conditional since Monday.
At the same time, the American president would have asked Florida representative Mike Waltz to put on the very strategic role of national security advisor to the White House. The retired special forces officer served in this role under Vice President Dick Cheney during the George W. Bush administration. Two future architects of Trump's foreign policy, with more decided and interventionist opinions than those of the 47th President of the United States, who campaigned on his isolationist “America First” line, claimed to be able to
