'Diplomatic clown car': Trump buried over 'outrageously bad appointments' of ambassadors

Many of the people President-elect Donald Trump has appointed to represent the United States overseas are severely lacking in diplomatic experience, and several foreign policy experts are blasting the incoming president over his choice of diplomats. The Guardian reported that several of Trump's picks for U.S. ambassadors — like former NFL player Herschel Walker to the Bahamas and former Fox News personality Kimberly Guilfoyle to Greece — are being roundly mocked over their inexperience. But former ambassador Laura Kennedy — who oversaw the U.S. mission to Turkmenistan during both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations — urged senators to be diligent in carrying out their Constitutional duty to properly vet all presidential appointees. “My one real ask is that the Senate take its responsibility seriously, evaluate each candidate on its merits, and not be shy about withholding consent.” Some of Trump's diplomatic choices are more experienced picks that have had prior roles in U.S. embassies around the globe, like Ambassador to Canada nominee Pete Hoekstra, who was Trump's former ambassador to the Netherlands. Ambassador to Mozambique and Peru, Dennis Jett, Trump committed a grave error in selecting former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee to be U.S. Jett pointed out Huckabee's position that the Palestinian-controlled West Bank is not under Israeli military occupation, which directly conflicts with the broad consensus of the international community.