Spite
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, according to several American diplomats familiar with the plan, breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods.
The mandate — issued “without exceptions,” according to a terse State Department cable sent on Dec. 23, diplomats who saw it said — threatens to leave the United States without Senate-confirmed envoys for months in critical nations like Germany, Canada and Britain. In the past, administrations of both parties have often granted extensions on a case-by-case basis to allow a handful of ambassadors, particularly those with school-age children, to remain in place for weeks or months.
Mr. Trump, by contrast, has taken a hard line against leaving any of President Obama’s political appointees in place as he prepares to take office on Jan. 20 with a mission of dismantling many of his predecessor’s signature foreign and domestic policy achievements.
Thus demonstrating again what a hateful childish petty little shit he is.
W. Robert Pearson, a former ambassador to Turkey and a scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, said the rule was “quite extraordinary,” adding that it could undermine American interests and signal a hasty change in direction that exacerbates jitters among allies about their relationships with the new administration.
Well, relationships with hateful childish petty little shits tend to be unpleasant.
Derek Shearer, a professor of diplomacy at Occidental College who is a former United States ambassador to Finland, said it was difficult to see a rationale for the decision. “It feels like there’s an element just of spite and payback in it,” he said. “I don’t see a higher policy motive.”
Payback for what? That Correspondents’ Dinner when Obama humiliated Trump? Trump the birther, who was relentlessly promoting the stupid lie that Obama was not born in the US?
Oh well, it’s only diplomacy.
Trump undermining American interests? I’m gonna have a heart attack and die of not surprise.
“Working hard” on making America grate to a powdered halt.
Can the Person-Eject even name the capitals of all States? Nevermind many capitals of other nations. (Except Nyok, NY and maybe Nuak, NJ — oh and My Ami)
Well, if he thinks Nyok, NY is the capital of NY – ouch.
Well, I figure he should know, living in his vory tower there, when not in digs by some swamp. At least I can claim ignorance as a mere furriner, soon to be free of any diplomatic worries. What’s his excuse again?
His excuse is…he knows things. He has a very good brain. He trusts his gut. And he is the real Donald J. Trump.
Oh yah, he knows things, so he doesn’t need to actually know things. The rest of us just keep forgetting that.
I wish I could forget.
He’s like a very smart person.
In that he’s a person.
I Know Things® is not the same as “I know things.”