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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the US diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of President Donald Trump's "America First" priorities.

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USSECSTATE Marco Rubio, the perfect definition of an "Empty Suit," issued the directive which infuriated State Department personnel. This idiotic move by the diabolical Trumpf junta will leave key embassies without critical leadership. Thus recall may also effectively end the careers of many ambassadors who will have only 90 days to find new positions in the State Department, a tall order during a moment of limited high-level positions.

"To remove these senior diplomats without cause or justification sends a dangerous message," the American Foreign Service Association, the union that represents US diplomats said. "It tells our public servants that loyalty to country is no longer enough " that experience and oath to the Constitution take a back seat to political loyalty."

Recalling US ambassadors is easier than appointing them, as they require US Senate confirmation. Like the purge in the Defense Department and other federal agencies, the nefarious Trumpf junta is cleaning house of potentially disloyal personnel in order to fill them with MAGA acolytes, much like Stalin's purges of the 1930s.

The inter-galactically vapid good-for-nothing Marco Rubio dismantled USAID this year, causing the deaths of thousands of hungry and sick people in the Third World. This Empty Suit was vetted for his position as USSECSTATE by none other than mega-oligarch Larry Ellison based on his fealty to Israel: Marco Rubio Loyal to Israel

Worst. US Secretary of State. Ever.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-23 04:10 AM | Reply

Such senior diplomats are not easily replaced.

imo ...

That is, unless Pres Trump and the Senate care more about loyalty to Pres Trump instead of loyalty to the Constitution and capability for the position.

But the Republicans in the Senate have already shown their lack of a spine in the confirmation hearings regarding that matter. Can you say Sec Hegseth? I knew you could. (apologies for channeling Mr Rogers there...)

/imo



#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-23 04:46 AM | Reply

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