Here's a screen shot I took of a CNN video of Donald Trump in Florida on Friday announcing that he is cutting off aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. But what's wrong with this picture? Which element of the composition seems off, unharmonious with the rest? Look at Marco Rubio, head bowed, eyes downcast, his expression somberly pensive, one would say a study in some deep sorrow. Nor did I just happen to catch Marco Rubio in an odd moment. This was his demeanor during most of the video. He seldom looked up and when he did his face had the same troubled look. While I watched the video I wondered if Marco Rubio was troubled by Donald Trump's words when Trump said, "We were paying them tremendous amounts of money and we're not paying them any more because they haven't done a thing for us," ...or when Trump accused the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras of setting up the caravans, populating them with their "worst people" and sending them to our border. Perhaps it distressed Marco Rubio that Trump was cutting off aid as punishment to these already suffering countries. Maybe while Marco Rubio listened to Trump say those things he thought of his own grandfather who fled from communist Cuba and entered the United States as an illegal immigrant. Perhaps Marco Rubio was remembering the story of how the immigration judge ordered his grandfather to be deported but later that day had a change of heart and his grandfather was allowed to stay in the U.S. and was eventually granted permanent residency.
Or then again, maybe the sun was just in his eyes. References
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/30/politics/state-department-aid-el-slavador-guatemala-honduras/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Rubio
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