Nep
Next it will be cartoon characters, pirates, caddies, celebrity chefs.
Trump makes his vapid daughter’s only slightly criminal daddy-in-law Ambassador to France.
President-elect Donald J. Trump announced on Saturday that he would name Charles Kushner, the wealthy real estate executive and father of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to serve as ambassador to France, handing one of his earliest and most high-profile ambassador appointments to a close family associate.
A close family associate with no known qualifications for being an ambassador to Staten Island, let alone France.
The announcement was the latest step in a long-running exchange of political support between the two men. Mr. Kushner received a pardon from Mr. Trump in the final days of his first term for a variety of violations and then emerged as a major donor to Mr. Trump’s 2024 campaign.
Hahaha tactful. Mr. Kushner received a pardon from Mr. Trump in the final days of his first term for a variety of violations and then paid up.
Mr. Kushner, 70, pleaded guilty in 2004 to 16 counts of tax evasion, a single count of retaliating against a federal witness and one of lying to the Federal Election Commission in a case that became a lasting source of embarrassment for the family. As part of the plea, Mr. Kushner admitted to hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, a witness in a federal campaign finance investigation, and sending a videotape of the encounter to his sister.
So, obviously he should be ambassador to France.
Kushner should be ambassador to Riker’s Island.
Ha! Good one.
Papa Smurf for SCOTUS? Couldn’t do any worse than some of the others Trump put there in his last term.
As for Ambassador to France – can Kushner speak French? I certainly hope not. A translator could probably be a better ambassador than him.
You can all but hear the Gallic shrug
“I recommend reading his résumé. ‘Juicy’ as the Americans would say . . . Needless to say, he has no knowledge of our country. At least he will have access to the president. We console ourselves as best we can,” former French ambassador to the US Gérard Araud
No, he has no French. The reaction in France has been a mixture of resignation and detached disgust.
Apologies for going off topic, but the Spanish word for the relationship between Trump and Kushner pères is “consuegros”–roughly translated, “co-in-laws”. English could use such a word.
At least making people who’ve done you favors into ambassadors isn’t that unusual, though obviously it isn’t good government.
And representing Donald Trump only; no nation, state or territory