Brussels: Marco Rubio's Security Clash with Hotel Bar Manager: Wanted to get Drunk After Hours

What is it with the Trump administration's officials? Like Pete Hegseth, they take their alcoholism with them around the world. 

The senior member of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's security detail has clashed with a hotel manager in Brussels who refused to open the hotel bar after hours for them so they get drunk. When police arrived and arrested him, he resisted arrest and had a fight with the police officers.

But apparently the US Supreme Court says Rubio's bodyguards have immunity and after the US embassy intervened, the drunkard was released. Then a State Department spokesperson excused the behavior of the security detail members by saying that they work very hard!

Nothing to be embarrassed about. It's the dumb and ugly quality of the Fraternity Boys Administration after all.

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Member of Rubio’s security team arrested in Brussels after fight with local police
Katie Hawkinson
Tue, April 8, 2025

A member of the Secretary of State’s security team was arrested in Brussels after becoming physically aggressive with a hotel staff member and confrontational with local police, according to a new report.

Marco Rubio and his security team were in Brussels last week for a NATO summit when the incident occurred, according to The Washington Examiner. The Diplomatic Security Service, of which the member was a senior agent, is “aware of the incident” and the “allegations are being examined,” a State Department spokesperson said in a statement to The Independent.

The Diplomatic Security Service is the State Department’s security team, which protects diplomats and helps combat transnational crimes, including passport and visa fraud.

On March 31, a shift supervisor assigned to Rubio’s detail reportedly became irate when staff at Hotel Amigo refused to reopen the bar after it had closed. When the staff and night manager tried to tell the staff member to return to his room, he became physically aggressive, the Examiner reports, and law enforcement was called.

Rabbit-eared Marco Rubio, the Cuban-American immigrant and Trump's Secretary of State

The security detail then got in an altercation with officers, leading to his arrest.

They released him from police custody hours later after the U.S. embassy intervened, according to the Examiner.

The Examiner did not publish the agent’s name, and the State Department did not provide the agent’s name when asked by The Independent.

An anonymous State Department employee told the Examiner that shift supervisors on Rubio’s detail have “an incomprehensible workload.”

“They are responsible for all the agents under them, scheduling, evaluations and a preposterous amount of admin work [as well as] performing the actual shift work,” the employee said.

“They work 6 to 7 days a week,” the employee added. “I truly believe this was the result of incomprehensible strain [the agent] was placed under and, at the very least, [Diplomatic Security Service] owes [the agent] a very fair evaluation of these circumstances in their totality – looking deep into [DSS’s] own role [in what happened].”