DAVID MARCUS: How Trump's team of former rivals is saving America

Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are the cardinal and astir fashionable members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, but they person thing other successful common: All 3 are harsh erstwhile critics of their existent boss.

Much has been made, particularly connected the left, of past statements by this large 3 successful the cabinet, Vance calling Trump Hitler, Rubio’s bruising 2016 superior attacks connected the president's manus size and beauteous overmuch everything erstwhile Democrat RFK Jr ever said anterior to endorsing Trump successful 2024.

US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) look connected during a gathering with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, DC, connected April 7, 2025 (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

To Democrats, of course, this astir look to Orange Man Good from each three, and others successful the White House orbit, means that these men person abandoned their principles and are bootlicking for their ain power. But successful fact, thing overmuch much astonishing is happening.

Trump’s archetypal word was often mired successful interior statement and friction from a furniture that astatine times seemed much funny successful being a guardrail to Trump’s expected impulsiveness than stewards of his agenda.

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Vice President Mike Pence, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and National Security Adviser John Bolton, for example, were, successful Trump’s medication and to this day, profoundly captious of his attack to governing, which wounded the White House’s effectiveness.

This clip around, successful Trump 2.0, his cabinet, which has remained each but unchanged for a twelvemonth now, is not trying to hem him in, but alternatively to marque his imaginativeness for a amended America a reality, careless of immoderate past tensions they whitethorn person had with the boss.

Cheryl Hines, woman of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, watches her hubby attest during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation proceeding astatine the Dirksen Senate Office Building connected January 29, 2025 successful Washington, DC.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

This tells america a mates of things. First, it showsTrump has beauteous heavy tegument astatine the extremity of the day. Barring the benignant of implicit betrayals we person seen from figures similar Pence and Esper, the president is showing his quality to fto bygones beryllium bygones.

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Second, it demonstrates that Vance, Rubio, and Bobby, not to notation erstwhile Democrat and existent National Security Adviser Tulsi Gabbard, person recovered that erstwhile you honestly and openly enactment with Trump, and get to cognize him, your sentiment of him tin change.

Trump’s squad of erstwhile rivals has besides been truthful effectual due to the fact that Trump’s lone steadfast ideological presumption is America first, and nether this rubric, Vance’s economical protectionism, Rubio’s overseas adventurism and RFK Jr’s Make America Healthy Again docket each person a invited location astatine 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Much of this is down to Trump’s unsocial quality to enactment communal consciousness supra governmental orthodoxy. For example, Democrats were stunned this week erstwhile the White House announced it wanted to barroom ample corporations from purchasing azygous household homes, thing they themselves person called for.

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Both from my ain backstage conversations with members of the Trump medication and done their nationalist remarks, what becomes wide is that, successful the starkest imaginable reversal of the archetypal term, today’s furniture is simply a well-oiled, and utterly unified team.

The sound connected the president, particularly from blimpish Never Trumpers, immoderate of whom haunted his archetypal White House, is that helium has nary principles. But the affirmative mode to framework this is that helium is flexible and unfastened to caller ideas.

The biggest question contiguous successful American authorities is what the Republican Party volition look similar connected Jan. 21, 2029, erstwhile Trump’s governmental vocation moves from the headlines to the past books. The answers beryllium successful his Cabinet.

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Trump took a batch of guff this past twelvemonth for allegedly filling his White House with thing but loyalists. Well, archetypal of all, what bash you privation successful the cabinet, Unloyalists? But second, these are not toadies, they are accomplished erstwhile foes who Trump has fixed the country and authorization to execute pro American policies.

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Maybe that truly is the thread that pulls unneurotic Trump’s choky team, the thought of making America and Americans pro America again, to reconstruct the bold thought that America is not a declining power, but alternatively that it tin bash large things some astatine location and astir the globe.

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While the bookmaking sharps person their wealth connected Vance arsenic the 2028 campaigner astir apt to look from Trump’s cabinet, whomever it is volition astir surely tally not conscionable arsenic an individual, but arsenic the antheral oregon pistillate who tin proceed to pb the all-star squad that the president has assembled.

There is an aged saw successful Washington that unit is policy, and that is simply a acquisition Trump learned the hard mode successful his archetypal term. But often times, the hard mode is the champion mode to learn. And a twelvemonth in, it is wide that President Trump has so learned good from his past mistakes.

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