Donald Trump nominates Marco Rubio as secretary of state

Donald Trump announced on Wednesday, November 13, that he would appoint Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, confirming information from American media. The senator, known for his anti-China positions, will be “an ardent defender of [la] nation [américaine]a true friend to [les] allies [du pays] and a fearless warrior who will never back down from [aux] opponents » of the United States, said the president-elect in a press release.

The influential 53-year-old Republican senator from Florida, born in Miami, son of Cuban immigrants, became the first head of American diplomacy fluent in Spanish.

Previously, Mr. Rubio exchanged schoolyard jokes with Donald Trump. Today, he becomes the new face of America in the world, a supporter of a hard line. He is particularly known for his firm diplomatic stances against China: he defended the sovereignty of Taiwan, worked to restrict commercial operations with Beijing and campaigned to punish the Chinese state for its actions in Hong Kong and against the Uighur minority.

Mr. Rubio is also a staunch supporter of Israel, fiercely opposing Iran and the rise of its nuclear program. Due to his family history, he also spoke out against the communist government of Havana or against other left-leaning Latin American countries, such as Venezuela.

kyiv in an “impasse” against Russia

In an interview with the Catholic channel EWTN, after Donald Trump's presidential victory against Democrat Kamala Harris, the Florida senator echoed the president-elect by affirming that kyiv was in a « impasse » against Russia, and that the United States must demonstrate “pragmatism” rather than spending billions of dollars on weapons.

“I don’t like what Vladimir Putin did, and we are interested in what happens there”he clarified. But “I think that the future of the 21st^e century will be defined by what happens in the Indo-Pacific ». In the Senate, he notably called for arming Taiwan, through direct deliveries of American military equipment rather than through the sale of arms.

And following an interview with Donald Trump, suggesting that the island had to pay the United States for its defense, he insisted that a new government of the billionaire would support Taipei against Beijing.

Tulsi Gabbard to intelligence, Matt Gaetz to justice

Donald Trump also announced on Wednesday that he would entrust the national intelligence directorate to Tulsi Gabbard, a former soldier and defector from the Democratic Party, whose positions favorable to Russia have caused controversy.

Just after the Russian invasion of February 2022, she wrote on X: “This war and suffering could have been avoided if the Biden administration and NATO had simply addressed Russia's legitimate concerns about Ukraine's possible entry into NATO. »

Matt Gaetz, a very controversial and loyal elected official among the Republican faithful, was also appointed to the post of Minister of Justice. « Matt [Gaetz] will put an end to the instrumentalization of [l’]administration »affirmed the elected president of the United States, convicted of criminal charges, who accuses the current Department of Justice of having fomented a “witch hunt” towards him.