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Anthony Scaramucci, who prior to the presidential election, was fairly confident that Kamala Harris would be elected, is making a prediction.

I predict Marco Rubio will become some sort of whistle blower. He has a Lion in him.

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) February 24, 2025

Last March, amid speculation that Marco Rubio would be considered Donald Trump's vice-presidential running mate, The Independent recalled

In September 2015, in an interview with “Kilmeade & Friends” on Fox News Radio, Mr Trump remarked after a GOP debate: “Marco Rubio, I’ve never seen anybody sweat like that and you know a lot of these guys are serious sweaters.”

Then Mr Trump attacked his record.

Mr Trump called the Florida Senator “Marco ‘amnesty’ Rubio” in a tweet, describing him as having the “worst voting record in [the] Senate.” Days later, the New York real estate magnate called him “just another all talk, no action, politician.”

He also called Mr Rubio a “lightweight” and “overly ambitious, too young” at a rally.

Then, Mr Trump went back to targeting the Florida lawmaker’s sweat.

“He sweats more than any young person I’ve ever seen in my life,” Mr Trump said that same month on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “I’ve never seen a person sweat -- I’ve never seen a guy down water like he downs water. I’ve never seen -- they bring it in in buckets for this guy.”

In October, he even went so far as to send “Trump Ice Natural Spring Water” to his Republican rival along with the message: “Since you’re always sweating, we thought you could use some water. Enjoy!”

Rubio responded, ineffectually, and

By February 2016, the name-calling had escalated further.

Mr Trump tweeted about how the Florida Senator looked at a debate, “Lightweight choker Marco Rubio looks like a little boy on stage. Not presidential material!”

After the Florida senator lamely attacked Trump

Mr Trump had called Mr Rubio “little Marco,” prompting the Florida Senator to throw hands.

“He’s always calling me Little Marco. And I’ll admit he’s taller than me. He’s like 6’2, which is why I don’t understand why his hands are the size of someone who is 5’2,” Mr Rubio said at a Virginia rally. “And you know what they say about men with small hands? You can’t trust them.”

At the next debate in early March, Mr Trump tried to dispel any rumours linking hand size to the size of a reproductive body part: “I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee it.”

Marco Rubio on his worst day has more integrity than does Donald Trump, probably more than does Chris Christie, and could not be a worse Secretary of State than Christie was a governor. Still, facts are facts, history is history, and this is how it went on February 6, 2016:

          

And this history is why former US Representative and Tea Party charter member turned Never Trump Republican is right.

No. No he doesn’t. Marco doesn’t have a “lion in him.” And if Marco ever did have a lion in him, that lion left Marco about 7 or 8 yrs ago. https://t.co/4UozBohVXs

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) February 25, 2025

 

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