We really don’t believe that this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional, less unpredictable, less faction-riven, less diplomatically clumsy and inept.
Sir Kim Darroch’s opinion on the Trump administration is a truthful, realistic, and honest assessment of the ‘special relationship’ between the U.S. and the U.K. However, with the leak of highly secret diplomatic cables critical of Trump administration, Sir Kim, Britain’s Ambassador to the United States, under intense pressure, resigned from his job. As some observers put it, ‘he lost his job for doing his job.’
Donald Trump’s rancid tweets–calling Kim Darroch a ‘wacky Ambassador,’ ‘a very stupid guy,’ and a ‘pompous fool’–are unprecedented. At the Foreign Affairs Committee meeting yesterday, when Tom Tugendhat, the chair, asked Simon McDonald, the UK’s Foreign Office permanent secretary, if there was a precedent for the head of state of a friendly government to do what Donald Trump did, McDonald’s answer was a crisp, monosyllabic–‘none.’ And then, he said:
Nothing like this has ever happened before. There must be consequences. What they are in details, I can’t tell you this afternoon.
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