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By the time Secretary of State Michael Pompeo was wrapping up a 10-day swing through Europe and the Middle East, he had angered Turkeys leaders, infuriated the Palestinians and befuddled the French.
Its a trip that seemed almost calculated to offend -- and to burnish Pompeos conservative credentials for a possible 2024 presidential campaign. Never one for niceties of etiquette or protocol, Pompeos last big tour as Americas 70th secretary of state offered provocations of those who have questioned Donald Trumps America First foreign policy and Pompeos role as its No. 1 promoter.
Like President Trump, Pompeo refuses to publicly acknowledge Joe Bidens victory in the Nov. 3 election. Nonetheless, the seven-nation journey, one of the longest hes taken as secretary, offered evidence that Pompeo is already looking past the Trump era, chockablock as the trip was with pronouncements likely to make Bidens life difficult and setting out a platform for his own political future.
Hes spending his last two months in office trolling the world, said Shadi Hamid, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Its an odd role for the nations top diplomat to be playing at a rather sensitive time.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-22/pompeo-trolls-critics-in-long-goodbye-as-he-looks-to-his-future
I really despise what Trump, Pompeo, and all the rest of these arrogant administration assholes have done to deliberately weaken our international influence and standing.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)is doing. Complete with his self-satisfied know-it-all smirk.
NCDem47
(2,248 posts)He has purposefully been sent out to leave destruction in his wake.
Good ridance.
My gosh, will this two months never end??
Polly Hennessey
(6,787 posts)They see him out of respect for the United States. I doubt they take anything he says seriously. A huge sigh of relief was heard round the world as tRump and Pompy and their grifting families left the stage.
Polly Hennessey
(6,787 posts)They see him out of respect for the United States. I doubt they take anything he says seriously. A huge sigh of relief was heard round the world as tRump and Pompy and their grifting families left the stage.
Turbineguy
(37,291 posts)before the republican party produces a qualified candidate.
Luckily for them, there are plenty of idiots who will vote for them anyway.
tanyev
(42,516 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,065 posts)goes, he will be branded w/ trump on his large a&& and forehead. He's tainted for life.