The senior official cooled speculation about his candidacy for 2028 and announced that he will remain in the government until the end
While Rubio is undoubtedly seen as a serious presidential contender for the future by the Republican Party, the former senator's plan from day one of Trump returning to the White House in January 2025 was to stay on board for the full four years, according to a senior administration official.
Another factor that could keep Rubio in the government is that his foreign policy goals have yet to be realized, and the Florida politician wants to see the Castro communist regime fall, as any child of Cuban immigrants would desire, something Trump has hinted he could achieve.
"I suppose he will be president someday, either before JD or after," opined a Republican leader close to the White House, suggesting that Vice President JD Vance will be the first to compete for the keys to the White House. If this is the case, Rubio would have to wait until 2032 to run for president. "I'm literally not going to talk about 2028 anymore," a decisive head of state stated in today's interview. "I'm just not going to do it."
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, denied rumors this Thursday about his departure from the Trump administration and avoided making statements about his presidential ambitions for 2028. At the same time, he issued a resolution that paves the way for the United States to impose sanctions on several key sectors of the Cuban economy and its Chinese military suppliers.
Primarily, Trump's top diplomat denied the report published by Bloomberg that indicated he had discussed the possibility of resigning with White House officials and that both he and his advisors were evaluating future options in order to prepare for a potential presidential candidacy.
Rubio told the New York Times that working for Trump throughout his entire second term has always been his plan. "I don't know where they get these things, to be honest with you. I love the job I'm doing. Also, I always find it funny when they say I'm going to leave my job. I think: ‘Which one of all of them?’", he stated.
The Assistant Secretary of State for Global Public Affairs, Dylan Johnson, described the aforementioned report as "completely unfounded fake news from invented anonymous sources." The White House did the same, and its spokesperson, Beni Rae Harmony, said that "this fake news is nothing more than a hoax invented and spread by anonymous sources without any factual basis."
