Trump's Army of Diplomatic Goons Is Wrecking Ties to U.S. Allies

[Eugene]

Source: The Daily Beast

Trump’s Army of Diplomatic Goons Is Wrecking Ties to U.S. Allies

Janna Brancolini
Thu, February 26, 2026 at 10:28 AM EST
3 min read

Donald Trump’s ambassadors to Europe are undermining American interests as they offend their host countries in an effort to score points with the president.

The U.S. ambassadors to France and Poland have been particularly willing to burn their host governments, with Ambassador Charles Kushner, whose son is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, accusing France’s president of antisemitism in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

He then then blew off multiple summonses from the Foreign Ministry, one involving the op-ed and the other an inflammatory post from the State Department’s counterterrorism bureau.

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The fact that Kushner didn’t send his complaints, which were written in the form of a letter addressed to Macron, to the Élysée Palace or even a French newspaper such as Le Monde suggested his primary intended audience was Trump, according to Politico.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-army-diplomatic-goons-wrecking-152825734.html

[Norrrm]

1. How is Lips-n-Cleavage (Kimberly) doing as ambassador to Greece?

Her main qualification was to-be-gone.