| They were promoted from the State Department ranks rather than proposed by President Trump from outside.. One has to wonder how many think either the department or the the country they were posted to is their client, not President Trump and the secretary of state he appointed. |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts around the world.
| Don’t all diplomats have to submit their resignation when a new president comes in, in case he wants to accept it and put someone else in the position? |
Diplomats in 29 countries were given notices Wednesday informing them that they'd be out of a job by mid-January, according to two State Department officials.
All of them were assigned to their posts by the Biden administration but had remained in their jobs for the first year of Trump's second term despite an initial wave of cuts that targeted mainly political appointees.
| So they got an extra year to prove they were unbiased, and failed the test. Do stop whining — it’s so undiplomatic. |
The directive offered no explanation for the recall, but Trump administration officials said they will now be replaced with personnel deemed fully supportive of Donald Trump's 'America First' priorities.
A senior State Department official called this 'standard process in any administration' but admitted that President Trump wants people who will be in line with his policy goals.
| That is the point of diplomatic personnel, after all. |
'An ambassador is a personal representative of the president and it is the president's right to ensure that he has individuals in these countries who advance the 'America First' agenda,' a senior State Department official said.
The recalled diplomats were encouraged to find new roles in the State Department, a second US official said.
| Or not, as the case may be. |
The Trump administration's directive now leaves the United States without leadership in critical countries including in Rwanda, Egypt and Armenia - all countries where Washington is trying to sustain peace efforts that the president has championed.
| Which means that they’re at the war-war stage, not ready for jaw-jaw. |
It is the latest in the Trump administration's efforts to concentrate high-stakes diplomacy in the hands of a small group of special envoys comprising longtime friends like son-in-law Jared Kushner and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, who are now working on Russia-Ukraine peace talks and post-war plans for Gaza.
| Or to get people in place so that the diplomatic corp is capable of smoothly transmitting the current government’s position. |
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