Trump has appointed a number of Special Envoys, raising questions on what the job of his Secretary of State will be.
Trump has appointed a number of Special Envoys, raising questions on what the job of his Secretary of State will be.
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein
President Donald Trump has chosen Mark Burnett, producer of the TV game shows “The Voice” and “The Apprentice,” as special envoy for the United Kingdom.
He also appointed:
Richard Allen Grennel, ambassador to Germany during his first term, as presidential envoy for special missions to Venezuela and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Retired General Keith Kellogg as special peace envoy in Ukraine with the mission of negotiating with Russia.
His friend the former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, as ambassador to Israel.
His inseparable partner in the game of golf, Steven Witkoff as special envoy to the Middle East.
His also excellent unconditional friend, Matthew Whitaker as Ambassador to NATO.
Former Georgia senator and former business executive, David Perdue as U.S. ambassador to China, to bring his “valuable experience to help build our relationship with China,” as Trump stated.
Financier Adam Boehler, a roommate of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, as “hostage release officer.”
And his in-laws Massad Boulos, father-in-law of his daughter Tiffany, as senior adviser for Arab and Middle Eastern affairs and Charles Kushner, father-in-law of his other daughter Ivanka as ambassador to France.
It is worth saying that special envoys, unlike ambassadors, do not have to be ratified by the Senate.
Knowing that the appointees do not necessarily accumulate political experience but have been appointed because they are friends of the president and that they will answer to him and only to him, I wonder what Marcos Rubio, designated secretary of state, will do if he does not have interference in Ukraine, Russia, Israel, the Middle East, China, Korea, Venezuela, the United Kingdom and France.
There are four options:
- Feeling a lot of anger when he realizes that Trump “elevated” him to take him out of the game.
- Be bored when you have nothing to do because the most important foreign policy decisions will be made in the White House.
- To dedicate themselves to conspiring with the darkest forces on the planet to overthrow governments, carry out coups d’état, assassinate presidents, produce invasions and apply sanctions and blockades in alliance with their neoconservative friends, drug traffickers, paramilitaries and terrorists (especially now that there are good and bad terrorists).
- All the above.