Washington's Diplomatic Corps Disdains President Trump

New York Times: ‘It Could Have Been Any of Us’: Disdain for Trump Runs Among Ambassadors

WASHINGTON — Ask members of the Washington diplomatic corps about the cables that Sir Kim Darroch, the British ambassador who resigned Wednesday, wrote to London describing the dysfunction and chaos of the Trump administration, and their response is uniform: We wrote the same stuff.

“Yes, yes, everyone does,” Gérard Araud, who retired this spring as the French ambassador, said on Wednesday morning of his own missives from Washington. “But fortunately I knew that nothing would remain secret, so I sent them in a most confidential manner.”

So did Mr. Darroch, who, alone and with Mr. Araud, tried to navigate the minefield of serving as the chief representative of longtime American allies to a president who does not think much of the value of alliances.


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WNU Editor: As Roger Kimball writes in the following post, the expectation in Washington's diplomatic corp during the 2016 Presidential election was the same as the American media's expectation, candidate Trump was going to be re-soundly defeated by Hillary Clinton .... ‘We will no longer deal with him’ was the end of Sir Kim Darroch (Spectator). Many staked their reputations on it, and I could only imagine the embarrassment and the explanations that they had to do when President Trump won. Flash forward to today, the focus from the media is on Sir Kim Darroch's remarks that President Trump's administration is dysfunctional. But considering how wrong they have been in the past three years, maybe the real focus should be on how dysfunctional Washington's diplomatic corp has become.