Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered some off-the-cuff remarks to questioners at the United Nations this week and made the Trump administration’s official position on globalism quite clear.
Rubio spoke about the recent seeming breakdown of international order and reminded people that leaders owe the people they serve to put their country’s interest first and said that this is what the Trump administration will always do.
This is something that the left never seems to understand, here in America or abroad.
The National News has details:
On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Mr Rubio said countries had been unable to work in unison to tackle crises around the world, including a war between Thailand and Cambodia, Sudan’s civil war and the conflict with Iran.
“There’s unanimity and consensus here in this gathering, and broadly, that the international system is broken,” he said. “It’s broken because it broke itself. It needs to be brought back to its proper focus and its proper role.”
He added that it was “failing because it has grown beyond its mandate”.
The US was a primary architect of an international system that was supposed to encourage co-operation between countries to manage crises. Instead, the UN and other bodies have struggled to take meaningful action in averting or ending wars, refugee crises and other international issues.
Mr Rubio said the US would continue to operate unilaterally if need be, if it is in its own interests.
“At least as long as President [Donald] Trump is in office, we will always act in the national interest of our country, not in the interest of the international order,” he said. “We will never put the international order above the interest of the United States.”
Watch the video below:
SECRETARY RUBIO: The United States will always act, as long as President Trump is in office, in the national interest of our country, not in the interest of the international order. pic.twitter.com/bUX78UIrtr
— Department of State (@StateDept) September 23, 2026
It is amazing how Rubio has flourished in his role at the State Department.
He just excels in this position.
