Watch Trump’s Rubio Moment: President Stops Speech For Water Break

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday took a brief break during a speech at the White House to re-hydrate.

It recalled Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) response to former President Barack Obama’s 2013 state of the union address, which he, too, paused for a drink.

Trump mocked Rubio for that moment at the time, and on the 2016 campaign trail.

On Wednesday, the senator responded in kind:

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  1. Nicolle Wallace says if you didn’t watch the press conference, it went something like this:

    “They liked me. They really, really liked me.”

    Effing moron.

  2. Pretty good little Marco…snarky with just a touch of suck.

  3. Wouldn’t this act be more impressive if Putin drank a glass of water while Trump continued speaking?

  4. That must be a liter of water. Otherwise how do you explain that his fingers barely cover one side of the bottle?

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