U.S. Department of State

Happy Birthday, Mr. Secretary.

From Sweden 🇸🇪 to India 🇮🇳, Secretary Rubio is strengthening alliances, advancing defense cooperation, and deepening economic partnerships.🇺🇸

PRESIDENT TRUMP: We’ve been very capable. When you think of it, we took over Venezuela in one day. We have done a similar job with Iran. We had them beat and they’re no better now.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Secretary Rubio said it better than anyone: You can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon.

They would use it instantly.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: The Strait is going to be open to everybody. It’s international waters. We’ll watch over it, but nobody’s going to control it.

Oman will behave like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that.

PRESIDENT TRUMP on CHINA: For years they ripped us off, but now they respect our country again.

SECRETARY RUBIO: Cuba is in a lot of trouble because unfortunately for them it's run by a bunch of incompetent communists.

We want something good for the Cuban people. Having a failed state 90 miles from our shores is a threat to the national security of the United States.

SECRETARY RUBIO on VENEZUELAN OIL: For the first time ever, the money is not being stolen. It’s going to the benefit of the Venezuelan people.

SECRETARY RUBIO: We signed a critical minerals agreement with Armenia - a reminder of another war President Trump helped settle.

We are seeing the emergence of a great new relationship with Armenia that really had grown stagnant for a long period of time.