DAVID MARCUS: How Trump's team of former rivals is saving America |
‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy sits down with wives of prominent Trump administration Cabinet members to discuss how they navigate the attacks and hate directed at their husbands and families.
Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are the central and most popular members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, but they have something else in common: All three are harsh former critics of their current boss.
Much has been made, especially on the left, of past statements by this big three in the Cabinet, Vance calling Trump Hitler, Rubio’s bruising 2016 primary attacks on the president's hand size and pretty much everything former Democrat RFK Jr ever said prior to endorsing Trump in 2024.
US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) look on during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 7, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
To Democrats, of course, this about face to Orange Man Good from all three, and others in the White House orbit, means that these men have abandoned their principles and are bootlicking for their own power. But in fact, something much more amazing is happening.
Trump’s first term was often mired in internal debate and friction from a Cabinet that at times seemed more interested in being a guardrail to Trump’s supposed impulsiveness than stewards of his agenda.