Rudy Giuliani floats bid for secretary of state if Trump wins reelection

Rudy Giuliani still thinks he’d make a great secretary of state.

The controversial former New York City mayor on Wednesday said he “would be open to” becoming the nation’s top diplomat if former President Donald Trump returns to the White House.

“I really believe I could straighten … out the State Department,” Giuliani said in an interview on Steve Bannon’s right wing podcast.

“I think it’s the agency of the government, even more than the FBI, that needs to be straightened out first, because it’s us to the world,” he added.

Giuliani made the admission after initially parrying Bannon’s questions about whether he would want the powerful cabinet post.

“I shouldn’t ask for a job now, right?” Giuliani said. “The boss would get angry. I’m willing to do [whatever] I have to do.”

Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination but still faces a tricky path to win a White House comeback.

Trump famously passed over Giuliani for the secretary of state gig when his first term started more than six years ago. He reportedly had qualms about Giuliani’s temperament and reputed heavy drinking.

Giuliani, 78, has not exactly wrapped himself in glory since then.

He was the point man for Trump’s ill-fated effort to dig up dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine, a push that led to Trump’s first impeachment.

Giuliani was also deeply involved in the Stop the Steal effort to overturn Trump’s loss to Biden in the 2020 presidential election, which got Trump impeached again and has plunged him into myriad legal woes.

Giuliani has so far avoided being charged criminally in any of the cases, although several probes are still ongoing.