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State Department Recalls 29 Ambassadors

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Posted By: earlybird, 12/22/2025 7:43:33 PM

The United States has recalled almost 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial roles. All of the ambassadors were appointed under President Joe Biden and are senior members of the State Department’s Foreign Service, which produces career diplomats to serve in Washington and abroad. These diplomats tend to stay in their roles for a few years and usually do not leave when there is a change in administration, as they are trained to carry out the president’s agenda, no matter which party occupies the White House.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: jimincalif 12/22/2025 8:00:43 PM (No. 2044286)
Personnel is policy. Anyone appointed by President-ish Autopen must be presumed to oppose President Trump’s policies.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Ketchuplover 12/22/2025 8:02:48 PM (No. 2044288)
I hope the Somali ambassador does not come back ten times richer than when he left.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: earlybird 12/22/2025 8:11:50 PM (No. 2044295)
I don't agree with Riichman, Trump and Rubio don't either....
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Reply 4 - Posted by: skacmar 12/22/2025 8:22:46 PM (No. 2044297)
This will be protrayed as an end of foreign relations, end of diplomacy action by the media and Democrats. They will all act as ifthis has never has happened before and that Trump and Rubio are the first administration to ever recall Ambassadors that they have not appointed. The lifetime State Department bureaucrats will howl with disapproval like foreign relations will end without them.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Birddog 12/22/2025 8:51:11 PM (No. 2044313)
"TRUMP IS ANTI WOMAN!!!!" Most of these staff people appointed instead of actual Ambassadors are women...expect Shumer to slow walk or stall confirmation of them ALL.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: hershey 12/22/2025 9:14:10 PM (No. 2044318)
More new employees for McDonalds...
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Reply 7 - Posted by: doctorfixit 12/22/2025 11:10:08 PM (No. 2044349)
The Dept of State is a nest of Communist spies CIA operatives, drug runners, assassins, and charlatans. Of all the sewers on Washington. It Is the most vile
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Reply 8 - Posted by: WV.Hillbilly 12/22/2025 11:35:45 PM (No. 2044357)
They should have all tendered their resignations on day one or face termination.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: mifla 12/23/2025 4:24:34 AM (No. 2044385)
Patronage jobs. Good pay and benefits, pension eligible after x number of years, and you get to travel on the taxpayer dime.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: 5 handicap 12/23/2025 6:06:08 AM (No. 2044402)
Probably aughta not send Ambassadors to half of those Parasitic Nations anyway. Somalia, Nigeria, Gabon, C'mon
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Reply 11 - Posted by: JackBurton 12/23/2025 6:44:02 AM (No. 2044423)
Does anyone think that a post in Surinam or Gabon is anything but a reward for political favoritism? Or that it matters? I remember when Jimmy Carter appointed his mom as ambassador to India. Now THAT was a biggie. But there are no countires of political, military, or economic significance on this list.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: billa57 12/23/2025 7:04:55 AM (No. 2044426)
Its Christmas. Time to find out who was naughty and who was nice.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Strike3 12/23/2025 8:39:50 AM (No. 2044477)
Nobody hired by either the Obama or Biden administrations is remotely qualified and impartial. They simply had the right skin color and leftist philosophy. Being LGBTQ was a plus. That includes everybody from Supreme Court judges to the clerks at the Department of Agriculture. They are all biased and those with access to foreign governments have the potential to do more harm than good. Get 'em outta there!
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Mizz Fixxit 12/23/2025 11:39:01 AM (No. 2044636)
Good. Twenty-nine fewer shadow government operatives.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: bpl40 12/23/2025 11:49:30 AM (No. 2044649)
ALL senior appointees of both the Kenyan and Joe Autopen should be considered suspect. Flag officers as well and ambassadors are plants to continue LGBTQ+ (or whatever), DEI, Social Justice , Climate Change and other policies..
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Reply 16 - Posted by: anniebc 12/23/2025 12:04:49 PM (No. 2044670)
They may be trained to work with any president, but times have changed. Expect anyone who is not with PDT to be a traitor. A bunch of females. Odds are the majority of them are not with Trump. The State Department corps is full of people living high on the backs of the taxpayer. You think what we've seen from the NGOs is bad. Even the hardship posts are cushy. Some of them are very cushy, and for those, that's especially what hardship means. They party hard, send their kids to private schools (sometimes in Europe), and shop and travel a whole lot. Even the lowest secretaries (if they still have those anymore, prolly so since it's government) live quite well. They all live far better than military members and their families. Their cushy lifestyles need to be downsized no matter who's in office.
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