This is what happens when you elect a lowlife president who appoints lowlife ambassadors to make asses of themselves on the world stage:
At least Bill White, Donald Trump’s ambassador to Brussels, showed up when summoned by the foreign ministry over some undiplomatic interventions into Belgian politics. His counterpart in Paris, Charles Kushner, on Monday snubbed a similar call from French officials, deepening a standoff that shows no signs of calming. France cut off his contact with government officials after the no-show.
The presidential envoys, traditionally thought of as builders of bridges, have instead been publicly picking fights with their hosts in service of a boss who has made contempt for the European Union a pillar of his foreign policy.
“We don’t accept that foreign countries can come and interfere, can invite themselves into the national political debate, whatever the circumstances,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on France Info radio on Tuesday. “There is nothing more normal than summoning an ambassador when an explanation is needed.”
The arena where the conflict between MAGA and Europe is playing out most routinely is on the ground. While disputes between countries, even allies, are a regular part of international relations, it’s noticeable that the complaints are concentrated in countries that have governments that define themselves in part in opposition to domestic populist movements, often viewed as natural political allies for the US administration.
Trump himself hasn’t shied away either. The US president affirmed his “complete and total” endorsement of Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Washington DC on Thursday. Orban faces a tight election on April 12. And it’s not the first run-in between the French and Kushner, the father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. In August, Kushner sent his deputy to receive a dressing down after he sparked the French government’s ire with an editorial that accused President Emmanuel Macron of not doing enough to fight anti-semitism.
In Belgium, White, who only took up his post in November, also waded quickly into domestic politics in the notoriously politically fractious country.Last week the New Yorker was summoned by the country’s foreign minister after he accused the country of anti-semitism over a judicial investigation related to Jewish ritual circumcision in Antwerp, a city with a large orthodox Jewish community. White demanded that the case over whether three “mohels” — Jewish ritual circumcisers — were performing them without the required medical training be dropped. Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot accused White of peddling “dangerous disinformation that undermines the real fight against hatred.”
Who the hell do these people think they are??? Kushner is a convicted felon pardoned by Trump who is Trump’s worst choice for ambassador and is making that obvious every day.
This jerk in Belgium has gone after the EU Parliament, threatening visa restrictions against center left members who criticize American policies and has the temerity to call some ministers “rude.” Apparently, this a huge story in Belgium with the prime minister coming out yesterday saying, “it is not the role of an ambassador to sow discord in national politics.” No kidding.
The Trump envoy to Poland calls himself a “not-so-secret agent of MAGA Judeo-Christian Conspiracy” and has been threatening the Polish government if it decides to tax big tech and had a meltdown when the speaker of the parliament refused to sign a letter nominating Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.
I’m still waiting to see what Kimberley Guilfoyle will do in Greece. You can bet it’s going to be a doozy.
We shouldn’t be surprised because Trump has named only crony loyalists to all appointments in this administration and that, by definition, means they are terrible people. Of course they’re causing diplomatic incidents all over the world.