Trump's Breezy Calls to World Leaders Leave Diplomats Aghast

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“By taking such a cavalier attitude to these calls, he’s encouraging people not to take him seriously,” said Daniel F. Feldman, a former special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan. “He’s made himself not only a bull in a china shop, but a bull in a nuclear china shop.”



Trump’s Breezy Calls to World Leaders Leave Diplomats Aghast

By MARK LANDLER
DEC. 1, 2016


WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump inherited a complicated world when he won the election last month. And that was before a series of freewheeling phone calls with foreign leaders that has unnerved diplomats at home and abroad.

In the calls, he voiced admiration for one of the world’s most durable despots, the president of Kazakhstan, and said he hoped to visit a country, Pakistan, that President Obama has steered clear of during nearly eight years in office.

Mr. Trump told the British prime minister, Theresa May, “If you travel to the U.S., you should let me know,” an offhand invitation that came only after he spoke to nine other leaders. He later compounded it by saying on Twitter that Britain should name the anti-immigrant leader Nigel Farage its ambassador to Washington, a startling break with diplomatic protocol.

Mr. Trump’s unfiltered exchanges have drawn international attention since the election, most notably when he met Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan with only one other American in the room, his daughter Ivanka Trump — dispensing with the usual practice of using State Department-approved talking points.

On Thursday, the White House weighed in with an offer of professional help. The press secretary, Josh Earnest, urged the president-elect to make use of the State Department’s policy makers and diplomats in planning and conducting his encounters with foreign leaders.

“President Obama benefited enormously from the advice and expertise that’s been shared by those who serve at the State Department,” Mr. Earnest said. “I’m confident that as President-elect Trump takes office, those same State Department employees will stand ready to offer him advice as he conducts the business of the United States overseas.”

“Hopefully he’ll take it,” he added.

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[Cha]

1. Dump trump.

[babylonsister]

2. I wish someone could figure out a way

to do that because he's scaring the crap out of me.

[Cha]

3. I know.. it just felt right to say it anyway.

He's not my president he's their dictator.

Resistance.

[babylonsister]

4. And we get to

watch the train wreck unfold.

[Cha]

5. Yeah, we

have to watch.

[johnp3907]

13. But we're ON the train!

[milestogo]

6. But narcissists don't need advice and expertise - they already know everything.

No State Department needed.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. That's right

He knows more about ISIS than the Generals

[vinny9698]

7. Where is the ISIS secret plan to end the ISIS?

Another talking point.

[mdbl]

8. Must be getting his advice from Bannon already

Go on Don, give em a call! Tell em ur makin amerika great again.

[HAB911]

9. He should have offered professional mental health services

[Moostache]

10. I feel like being held hostage...

while a maniac holds a gun to the head of my family and demands that I watch him perform "spin the barrel" tricks.

There is simply no way this presidency does not end in disaster for this country, no way at all.

[annabanana]

11. It's horrifying 1. . . .n/t

[bullsnarfle]

12. You gotta be kidding me...

Dumb-ass is going to Pakistan????
Shortest.
Presidency.
Ever.
Hope everybody is ready for President Pence...