Mary Ellen Klas, Columnist

This Marco Rubio Is Unrecognizable

Trump’s Secretary of State, once a foe of authoritarian regimes, now boasts of cavalierly deporting immigrants and revoking visas.

Watching the boss.

Photographer: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images North America
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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele may have found the best description for Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s new approach to dictatorial regimes: a laughing emoji.

After a federal district judge ordered the administration to stop a US flight deporting Venezuelans to his country, Bukele wrote on X, after the flight departed: “Oopsie…Too late.’’ He added the symbol known as “face with tears of joy.”