Marco Rubio Provides a New Title Underneath Trump: Interim Nationwide Safety Adviser

Secretary of state. Appearing administrator of the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth. Appearing archivist for the Nationwide Archives and Information Administration. And now interim nationwide safety adviser to President Trump.

Like a Christmas tree bedecked with shiny ornaments of each form and dimension, Marco Rubio, 53, has amassed 4 titles beginning together with his affirmation as secretary of state on Jan. 20, the identical day that Mr. Trump took his oath of workplace.

It very nicely could possibly be a report within the trendy historical past of the U.S. authorities. And it provides to the immigrant success story that’s core to the narrative of Mr. Rubio, a former senator from Florida whose father labored as a bartender and mom toiled as a housekeeper after they left Cuba for the USA.

However the proliferation of titles raises questions on whether or not Mr. Rubio can play any substantial function within the administration if he’s juggling all these positions, particularly below a president who eschews the normal workings of presidency and who has appointed a businessman pal, Steve Witkoff, as a particular envoy dealing with essentially the most delicate diplomacy.

Mr. Trump introduced Mr. Rubio’s latest place in a social media submit on Thursday afternoon, a shock twist within the first massive personnel shake-up of this administration. The president had simply ousted Michael Waltz from the White Home nationwide safety adviser job in addition to Mr. Waltz’s deputy, Alex Wong. In the identical submit, Mr. Trump mentioned Mr. Waltz would now be his nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations.

Mr. Rubio’s appointment to one more job — as if he have been cloned in a B-grade sci-fi film — was so sudden that Tammy Bruce, the State Division spokeswoman, discovered about it when a reporter learn Mr. Trump’s social media submit to her throughout a daily televised information convention.