# Marco Rubio at Zelenskyy, Trump, Vance fight spurrs jokes online



## Marco Rubio at Zelenskyy, Trump, Vance fight spurrs jokes online



**Kinsey Crowley**  
USA TODAY

**1:53 p.m. ET March 3, 2025**

  
  


  
  




 one user wrote with a screenshot of Rubio looking at the leaders out of the corner of his eyes.

"I like that there was high stakes international drama going on but Marco Rubio looks like his mom took his Nintendo Switch in church," another user wrote, sharing a screenshot.

### SNL: 'Look at Rubio over there, fully disassociating'

Just a day after the heated exchange, SNL poked fun at the scene in its cold open Saturday night.

Marcello Hernández played Marco Rubio, looking stunned and silent as he sunk further and further into the couch.

"Oh man, look at Rubio over there fully dissociating," James Austin Johnson impersonated Trump said. "He looks like Homer Simpson disappearing into that hedge. To quote the late, good Tom Petty he's free falling."

### Rubio defended Trump, Vance after heated exchange

"Thank you @POTUS for standing up for America in a way that no President has ever had the courage to do before. Thank you for putting America First. America is with you!" Rubio posted in a statement on X shortly after Zelenskyy left the White House.

Rubio later joined CNN's Kaitlan Collins in an interview and said Zelenskyy should apologize.

"There was no need for him to go in there and become antagonistic," Rubio said on CNN Friday evening. "I think he should apologize for wasting our time for a meeting that was gonna end the way it did."

In a Fox News interview Friday, Zelenskyy declined to apologize.

USA TODAY reached out to the State Department for this story.

Contributing: Clare Mulroy, Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, Sarah D. Wire, Francesca Chambers

_Kinsey Crowley is a trending news reporter at USA TODAY. Reach her at kcrowley@gannett.com, and follow her on X and TikTok @kinseycrowley._
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