Donald Trump pulls a Marco Rubio with a very awkward sip of water

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Donald Trump pulls a Marco Rubio with a very awkward sip of water
President Donald Trump took an ill-timed water break. Credit: AP/REX/Shutterstock

President Donald Trump was thirsty after spending 12 days in Asia.

But even if he just got back from the Philippines Tuesday night and was a bit jet-lagged and dehydrated, he should have realized stopping his remarks to sip some water wasn't an option.

Here's Trump's thirst-quenching moment:

Trump made fun of his fellow Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio for years for doing the exact same thing during a 2013 response to the State of the Union address.

Here was Rubio's original super offensive water sipping moment:

And here's Trump tweeting about it and years later still mocking the Florida senator for the water break while on the campaign trail.

Rubio joined in on the joke Wednesday -- after almost five years he seems over it and ready to laugh it off.

Rubio wasn't the only one to notice the watery similarities. Twitter exploded with throwbacks to Rubio's water break and the relentless Trump taunting about it.

A White House pool report clarified what happened amidst the water confusion and noted it was Fiji brand water that the president sipped.

Wikipedia edits even got in on the water fun.

Make America Thirsty Again.

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Sasha Lekach

Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.

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