Secretary of State Marco Rubio has become an internet sensation with viral memes and a press briefing that fuels 2028 presidential talk.

The "Marco Rubio realizing" meme has been popular ever since the Trump administration launched an operation that led to the capturing of former Venezulan President Nicolás Maduro

“My favorite thing about our current politics” is not a phrase I use a lot. In fact, it’s a phrase I don’t use at all. Covering politics today is a grim dance between the vicious and the idiotic, between repulsion and despair. It is the journalistic equivalent of bonking your temples with a ball-peen hammer. Repeatedly.

Social media users roasted Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s sour look as he watched President Donald Trump lose it with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in real time on Friday. “If Marco Rubio wants to save what’s left of his soul and his honor ...