Donald Trump has announced that he’s naming out lesbian Fox News host Tammy Bruce to a State Department spokesperson position – despite her years of bizarre statements on air – but it seems she and her new boss may be starting on the wrong foot.

Bruce will serve under Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio assuming he is confirmed), who she spent years mocking on social media.

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Politico unearthed a series of posts in which Bruce insults Rubio as irrelevant and incompetent.

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In one 2016 post on X, she described Rubio as “the kid waving frantically in the back of the room trying to prove relevance.”

In more than one post, she also referred to him as “Little Marco,” echoing Trump’s condescending nickname for the senator while both were running for president in 2016.

“Strange. I didn’t mute Trump but I had to mute Marco,” she wrote in another post from the same year.

And in 2014, Bruce called Rubio “another inexperienced senator who’s never run a thing in his life” in response to his desire to run for president.

Nevertheless, Bruce claimed in a recent statement that she is “thrilled to work with Senator Rubio.” She called him “one of the president’s strongest allies when it comes to the America First agenda.”

Bruce has a history of making extreme statements on Fox News. In 2021, for example. she claimed that Democrats were funding research into human-animal hybrids as a banner declared, “Mutants are coming!” on screen.

Bruce is one of the only out LGBTQ+ personalities on Fox News, something she has used to attack other LGBTQ+ people in the past.

For example, in 2023, she joined in the rightwing bashing of Pride in a Fox segment about a drag queen who participated in a marketing campaign for The North Face, the outdoor gear company. That year, conservatives freaked out over the Pride gear, LGBTQ+ advertising, and influencer partnerships of numerous corporations, including The North Face, Bud Light, and Target.

Bruce said that “most of the audience knows I’m a gay woman,” but there has been a “kind of push for something, for everyone to be a victim or for some kind of new dynamic,” claiming that Pride campaigns “really do damage to the gay and lesbian community” and were “embarrassing.”

“And it’s not about homophobia, it’s about everything being politicized,” she said.

In 2021, Bruce raged at President Joe Biden for saying that men and women are equal.

“Alright, you noticed how he added ‘women and men are created equal,’ not just ‘men,’” Bruce said sternly. “It matters, right? That’s not what the Founders wrote.”

“Apparently, the sacred words of our Founders weren’t inclusive enough for Sleepy Joe, so he corrected them.”

That same year, she said that she wished she could “give back” the COVID-19 vaccine. “I got the vaccine!” she said. “In certain ways, it’s like, ‘If I could give it back!’ at this point, you know?”

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