Having just completed a year since his return to the White House, Donald Trump still doesn’t want to hear about who could succeed him and take over the leadership of the MAGA (‘Make America Great Again’) movement and try to prevail in the primaries of a Republican Party completely coerced by said movement. “I don’t want to get into this. We still have three years left,” the American president snapped, but with a nuance. This time he did give clues. And, for the first time, .
Logically, all eyes are on his ‘number 2’ and who accompanied him with the electoral ticket against Kamala Harris and Tim Walz: the vice president J.D. Vance. There are numerous voices that see him as a natural successor, both for his style and rhetoric and for the network of support woven in recent years. But not only in this figure that has been acquiring certain levels of popularity among the Trumpist ranks.
Another key person in the Trump Administration also accumulates those views, especially for his role in South America and the Caribbean, after the the kidnapping of and the redoubled pressures on a Cuba that seeks to sink -even more- with a neoembargo in the form of any country that sells or delivers oil to the island. That signature is that of the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
Trump: “One of them is a little more diplomatic than the other”
The same Donald Trump who has been slipping repeatedly that he would like to repeat in the next elections to run for a third term – an issue that is illegal and prohibited by US law – has made it clear that “I have two people who are doing a great job. and “. At that moment he qualified himself and reaffirmed that “I don’t want to use the word fight, because it wouldn’t be a fight.”
Trump has dropped that, although both have his approval, there are differences between both profiles. “Look, JD is fantastic and Marco is fantastic.”he emphasized, to point out that “one of them is a little more diplomatic than the other.” He has not clarified whether he was referring to the vice president who publicly humiliated the president of Ukraine in front of millions of spectators or whether he is referring to the secretary of state who designs a ‘peace plan’ for Gaza consisting of expelling the Palestinians and building a navy full of resorts and casinos.
“They would be able to do what they have to do”
Donald Trump, on JD Vance and Marco Rubio
Despite this, he has left what may be one of the biggest clues he has given so far as to what comes after this Trump Administration and a possibility that has already been discussed among his supporters through memes. “I think they both have very high intelligence,” Trump said, assuring that “they would be capable of doing what they have to do.” He has not given details of what this task would be, but he has “a combination of JD [Vance] and Marco [Rubio] “It would be very difficult to defeat”.
For the first time, Trump has referred to the possibility that the Republicans’ next ballot ticket for 2028 -if endorsed in primaries- It is made up of JD Vance and Marco Rubio. Without clarifying who would lead it and who would fight for the vice presidency. Of course, Trump has been very faithful to his style and has left an enigmatic phrase. “You never know in politics. They say that in the Trump era you never know,” Trump himself has said, raising the doubt of how long the “Trump era” will last.
