The appointment of Waltz, as well as the reported roles of both Rubio and Noem, come after Trump made Susie Wiles his chief of staff, named former immigration official Tom Homan as his "border tsar" and nominated New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik as his future ambassador to the United Nations.

During the Republican primaries in 2016, the MAGA leader called Rubio "little Marco," a "liar," and a "choke artist" — an oblique reference to Rubio supposedly choking on water when he was responding to one of Obama's State of the Union addresses, but it sounds like Trump was saying something very different about Rubio's…skill set.