Secretary of State Marco Rubio ripped ABC News host George Stephanopoulos during an interview over the weekend for accusing the U.S. of voting against its allies at the United Nations.
Rubio made the remarks during a Sunday interview on the network’s “This Week” show after Stephanopoulos claimed that the United States “voted with North Korea and Russia and Belarus in the United Nations and against our Western allies.”
“No,” Rubio fired back, explaining: “It basically said, this has been a horrible war. It’s time for it to end.”
“The job of the U.N. is to bring about peace in the world,” he said. “I thought that’s what the U.N. was created to do, to stop wars and to prevent them, and that’s what the resolution did.”
“Was it antagonistic towards the Russians? No,” he continued. “Back to the point, but it also didn’t praise the Russians. All it said is, this is a bad war. It needs to end.”
Rubio noted that the first resolution on Ukraine that has passed the Security Council in the three years the war has gone on only happened after Trump came back into office.
“And I just don’t get it. I really don’t, other than the fact that it’s Donald J. Trump,” he said. “If this was a Democrat that was doing this, everyone would be saying, ‘Well, he’s on his way to the Nobel Peace Prize.’ This is absurd. We are trying to end a war. You cannot end a war unless both sides come to the table, starting with the Russians. And that is the point the president has made. And we have to do whatever we can to try to bring them to the table to see if it’s even possible.”
He said that bringing both sides to the table did not guarantee that any particular outcome would happen, only that if it did not happen, it was “zero percent likely” that there would be peace.
“The president’s crystal clear. He campaigned on it,” he added. “And he’s going to govern on it. And that is, he is going to be a president that tries to achieve peace. And he has been very clear, this is a war that would have never happened had Donald Trump been in the White House. And it needs to end. And we’re going to do everything we can to end it. And in an enduring and sustainable and fair way.”
Amazing explanation of the situation from @SecRubio: “Shouldn’t we all be happy that we have a President that is trying to stop wars and prevent them instead of start them?… We are trying to end a war. You cannot end a war unless both sides come to the table.” pic.twitter.com/aoGfXm3PJ5
— Alex Pfeiffer (@Pfeiffer47) March 2, 2025