{"id":977805,"date":"2026-08-03T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/977805\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:27:12","slug":"marco-rubio-finally-addresses-that-viral-couch-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/977805\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio Finally Addresses That Viral Couch Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio has talked about the viral image that spawns a fresh meme seemingly every time another job is floated for the man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qfYf-YDgJjo\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"already wears multiple other hats\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a705e61e4b03026f4f045b2\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qfYf-YDgJjo\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">already wears multiple other hats<\/a> in the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>The February 2025 photo shows Rubio appearing to sink into an Oval Office couch during a tense meeting between President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it first came out, I hated that picture,\u201d Rubio told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/fox-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a> host (and Trump\u2019s daughter-in-law) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/lara-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lara Trump<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened is, on that couch, if you don\u2019t have a pillow behind your back, you kind of sink,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cSo I looked at the pictures, \u2018Oh, this is terrible. I look like, whatever.\u2019 And then it turned into this other thing. It was fine, and it\u2019s funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really follow it very closely, but people have shown me pictures,\u201d he added, revealing that White House deputy chief of staff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/dan-scavino\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Scavino<\/a> had even made a board featuring many of the memes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Secretary of State Marco Rubio has talked about the viral image that spawns a fresh meme seemingly every&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":977806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[69,410,50,103],"class_list":["post-977805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-donald-trump","tag-marco-rubio","tag-news","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117031576783869523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/977806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}