How Marco Rubio Tried (And Failed) To Stop A Trump Official From Bugging Mick Jagger

Wild horses couldn’t keep President Donald Trump’s entourage from barging in on British superstar Mick Jagger’s dinner during a September visit to the U.K.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio awkwardly bragged about his encounter with the Rolling Stones rocker during a celebration for the president’s new ambassador to India, Sergio Gor, in Washington, D.C., on Monday, according to a rundown of the event published by CBS News.

As Rubio recounted, he, Gor and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were dining at a London restaurant when they noticed the “Sympathy for the Devil” singer walk in and sit down just two tables away.

Oozing American audacity, Gor, then the head of presidential personnel, decided it was perfectly appropriate to interrupt Jagger’s meal.

“Sergio’s like, ‘I’m going go up to him. I’m going to get his picture,’” Rubio remembered. “I go, ‘Don’t go up to him.’”

“I looked it up online immediately: he’s not like an enormous fan of the president,” the former senator said he realized. “So, I’m like, ‘Sergio, this might be really bad. We’re in the guy’s country. He’s a legend in this country. I mean, I don’t know how he’s going react.’”

Gor already seemed to have made up his mind, so Rubio made what would seem like a reasonable request.

“‘OK, whatever you do, don’t mention me,” he remembered telling Gor. “He doesn’t even know who I am. And if he knows who I am, it isn’t because he likes me.’”

Gor, whom Trump has boasted about being a love ’em or hate ’em presence in the White House, did not follow Rubio’s directions, however.

As America’s top diplomat eavesdropped on the conversation, he overheard his dinner-mate saying, “Marco Rubio would love to meet you. He’s sitting right over there.”

According to Rubio, Jagger “couldn’t have been nicer” upon their introduction and called the situation proof that Gor is primed to be a “good ambassador.”

While it sounded like the rock star was cordial as could be with the American statesmen, Jagger has made his opinions about the president more than clear.

After the president used the Stones’ track “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” during a 2016 campaign rally, the band tweeted, “The Rolling Stones do not endorse Donald Trump.”

Jagger also railed against the president’s climate policies in 2019 and mocked his efforts to overturn the 2020 election during a concert in Atlanta, Georgia, last summer.