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Some might have forgotten, but not REALISTIC Rubio.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio With Sean Hannity of Fox News’ Hannity
Interview
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
December 2, 2025
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QUESTION: We talk a lot, and a lot of people talk in the Make America Great Again movement, about America First. And I believe in America First, but I also believe that we have to have insight, wisdom, understanding that goes along with that. And it seems like every one of the examples I just gave you where the President did use the might of the U.S. military, it’s against radical Islam. And that threat, I think when people are chanting, “Death to Israel,” when they’re chanting, “Death to America,” specific threats against our country, I have not forgotten 9/11/01. What is the nature of radicalism that maybe some people don’t understand why it’s in America’s first interest?
SECRETARY RUBIO: Because ultimately all radical Islamic movements in the world identify the West writ large but the United States in particular as the greatest evil on the Earth. And every chance they have – the notion that somehow radical Islam would be comfortable with simply controlling some province in Iraq or Syria is just not borne out by history. Radical Islam has shown that their desire is not simply to occupy one part of the world and be happy with their own little caliphate; they want to expand. It is a – it’s revolutionary in its nature. It seeks to expand and control more territories and more people.
And radical Islam has designs, openly, on the West – on the United States, on Europe. We’ve seen that progress there as well. And they are prepared to conduct acts of terrorism – in the case of Iran, nation-state actions, assassinations, murders, you name it. Whatever it takes for them to gain their influence and ultimately their domination of different cultures and societies.
That’s a clear and imminent threat to the world and to the broader West, but especially to the United States, who they identify as the chief source of evil on the planet. Okay, the reason why they hate the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the leadership of the UAE, of Bahrain, is because they’ve allowed the United States to partner with them. That’s why they hate them. They consider them infidels for it. They hate Israel. But they also hate America, and they hate anywhere in the world that we have influence; they seek to attack it, including here in the homeland.
If you look at the domestic terrorist – at the attacks that have happened here domestically, the overwhelming majority of them have been inspired by radical Islamic viewpoints.
QUESTION: Do you —
SECRETARY RUBIO: And that includes the shooting in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. That includes the Saudi pilot in Pensacola, my home state. Two attacks that people seem to have forgotten...
State.gov
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio With Sean Hannity of Fox News’ Hannity
Interview
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
December 2, 2025
[...]
QUESTION: We talk a lot, and a lot of people talk in the Make America Great Again movement, about America First. And I believe in America First, but I also believe that we have to have insight, wisdom, understanding that goes along with that. And it seems like every one of the examples I just gave you where the President did use the might of the U.S. military, it’s against radical Islam. And that threat, I think when people are chanting, “Death to Israel,” when they’re chanting, “Death to America,” specific threats against our country, I have not forgotten 9/11/01. What is the nature of radicalism that maybe some people don’t understand why it’s in America’s first interest?
SECRETARY RUBIO: Because ultimately all radical Islamic movements in the world identify the West writ large but the United States in particular as the greatest evil on the Earth. And every chance they have – the notion that somehow radical Islam would be comfortable with simply controlling some province in Iraq or Syria is just not borne out by history. Radical Islam has shown that their desire is not simply to occupy one part of the world and be happy with their own little caliphate; they want to expand. It is a – it’s revolutionary in its nature. It seeks to expand and control more territories and more people.
And radical Islam has designs, openly, on the West – on the United States, on Europe. We’ve seen that progress there as well. And they are prepared to conduct acts of terrorism – in the case of Iran, nation-state actions, assassinations, murders, you name it. Whatever it takes for them to gain their influence and ultimately their domination of different cultures and societies.
That’s a clear and imminent threat to the world and to the broader West, but especially to the United States, who they identify as the chief source of evil on the planet. Okay, the reason why they hate the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the leadership of the UAE, of Bahrain, is because they’ve allowed the United States to partner with them. That’s why they hate them. They consider them infidels for it. They hate Israel. But they also hate America, and they hate anywhere in the world that we have influence; they seek to attack it, including here in the homeland.
If you look at the domestic terrorist – at the attacks that have happened here domestically, the overwhelming majority of them have been inspired by radical Islamic viewpoints.
QUESTION: Do you —
SECRETARY RUBIO: And that includes the shooting in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. That includes the Saudi pilot in Pensacola, my home state. Two attacks that people seem to have forgotten...
State.gov
