"He's acting like diplomats are just construction workers he can release with a wave of his hand."

[loyalsister]

10. Exactly

I don't understand why there is any expectation that would ever be driven by the standard conventions and procedures that have defined the presidency for as long as any of us has been here to see it. He defined himself as a character and candidate as operating without basic rules of courtesty and diplomacy.
He promised to be that guy in the WH and that is one promise he has not broken. As horrify and terrifying as it has been, I think that none of what he has said has surprised me. What bothers me more is that people are being too conventional about encouraging him and having any expectation that he might deicide to actually act like a president.