Rubio: “2026 Is Going To Bring More Challenges, But We Have A Great President”
The White House released a video on Christmas Eve of Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivering a year in review.
SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO: Hi, it’s Marco Rubio. I’m the National Security Advisor and the Secretary of State and the Archivist right now, the Acting Archivist for the 47th President of the United States, the best president we’ve ever had. And it’s an honor to be able to do this job. We have a lot of achievements this year. Let’s start with the peace deals. One peace deal after another, India, Pakistan were ready to go to war, a very dangerous war. The president stopped it. Cambodia and Thailand, we got that peace deal put in place. Azerbaijan and Armenia, a war that could have started that would have been terrible, we put that into place. And of course, Gaza, that long war, nobody saw an end to it. The president got involved, brought it to an end, and with a plan for long-term stability and security. Beyond that, we went to Europe this year and the president got NATO to do something no president has ever been able to get NATO to do, and that is increase their defense spending to 5%. Just a few years ago, they were at 1%, 2%, 5% for all these countries, an incredible achievement by President Trump and his team here. Beyond that, I’m very proud of the reforms under the president’s leadership that we’ve done at the State Department. We got rid of USAID. We brought all that foreign aid under the State Department so that now, when we give money to countries, we know where the money’s going, and we know we’re helping our allies and our friends, and not just enriching some third-party group that’s making a bunch of money from your taxpayer dollars. We also helped secure the border. That’s been a responsibility of the Homeland Security Department, but we had a role to play, not just in the deals we made with other countries to send people back. We’ve got more countries than ever accepting their people that are in this country illegally from their countries. They’re taking them back. They’re also helping us stop them from coming here in the first place. This is a great achievement. So on issue after issue, the president has kept his promise to the American people. He’s keeping us safe by taking the war to the drug cartels, the drug cartels that are poisoning and killing our people. President Trump, he promised to do it, and he’s stopping them. He’s doing it. He’s keeping his promise to you. 2026 is going to bring more challenges, but we have a great president and a great team that he’s built, and we can’t wait to see the exciting achievements of the year to come. Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. Happy New Year to everybody. The best is yet to come.
