The once and future president continues to thumb his nose at other nations with his choice of envoys and ambassadors, not to mention telling America to get screwed with yet another black eye. You would think that Trump would wait until after Xmas but you would be wrong. Even in a war zone armies will stop fighting to observe one day of peace and tranquility, but not Trump. He’s got to push his toxic brand 365 days of the year. Here’s the latest.
Raised money for charity, huh? Children’s cancer charities, perhaps? Lara’s dog charities maybe? Or Melania’s charity, when the company in question wasn’t even registered as a charity? But let’s not digress. Let’s look at the car dealer.
One of the good ole boys that Trump golfs with. Oh, well. You were expecting a higher standard or something?
I am indeed waiting to see which ambassadorship or post in the Trump 2.0 administration that Laura Loomer gets. Or — gasp — do you think he might omit Laura? Say, maybe Trump suggested that Laura be named as the replacement for Marco Rubio’s Senate seat. That would have made Ron DeSantis blow his stack. Something happened between the two of them, because they’re not buddy buddy anymore. Trump has been heard calling DeSantis “DeSanctimonious” again at Mar-a-Lago. So much for that bromance.
What’s that you say? Couldn’t Trump simply promote people in the Diplomatic Corps, professional diplomats to ambassadorships, like they do in other countries? Where’s the payoff in that? These people are all clearly donors and most probably Mar-a-Lago members. If Trump can’t make a dollar off of you, or advance his image or agenda somehow utilizing you, you don’t exist.
There are plenty more appointments and nominations to come. Maybe Trump will give ambassadorships to a pole dancer and an ambulance chaser tomorrow and make them sound like Kovaleva of the Bolshoi and Clarence Darrow. Stay tuned. The only prediction we can make with certitude is that things are not going to get any saner.
If he promoted people within the diplomatic corps, they might not do his bidding. Remember Marie Yovanovitch? Our diplomat to Ukraine who wouldn’t play along with his illegal shenanigans. Can’t risk that happening again.
Remember Sh*thole countries? They are not for any donors and, therefore, will be the promotion route for the professionals
When do Sleepy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc and the rest of the dwarves get their assignments? Laura…how about being an ambassador to Mars? I hear that’s still open.
Well, Trump is always free to name anyone he wants to be ambassadors and his compliant Senate can always approve those deplorables but I do believe the host country has final say on whether it will or will not accept said ass-licker to the country.
And, according to the Wiki entry for “Ambassador,” we have this:
“The foreign government to which an ambassador is assigned must first approve the person. In some cases, the foreign government might reverse its approval by declaring the diplomat a persona non grata, i.e. an unacceptable person.”
Of course, this doesn’t usually happen with countries we’ve deemed our allies since it’s rare that a President would name an outright dolt (or convicted felon) to an ambassadorship but we may see that convention being turned on its head in the next six months.