Trump’s ‘stunningly unqualified’ diplomatic team shapes up at breakneck speed

Trump is hardly the first US president to introduce miscast nominees, but he has nominated ambassadors at a rate not recalled in recent memoryThey seem an unlikely, almost motley, crew of emissaries.For the Bahamas, there is Herschel Walker, a former NFL star whose fledgling Senate campaign was undone by a string of personal embarrassments but who now become US ambassador to the small Caribbean island. Continue reading...

Dec 21, 2024 - 20:00
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Trump’s ‘stunningly unqualified’ diplomatic team shapes up at breakneck speed

Trump is hardly the first US president to introduce miscast nominees, but he has nominated ambassadors at a rate not recalled in recent memory

They seem an unlikely, almost motley, crew of emissaries.

For the Bahamas, there is Herschel Walker, a former NFL star whose fledgling Senate campaign was undone by a string of personal embarrassments but who now become US ambassador to the small Caribbean island.

Continue reading...