WH to Trump: Consult with State before talking to foreign leaders

Washington Times ^ | 12/5/16 | Gabby Morrongiello

[Nachum]

White House press secretary Josh Earnest encouraged President-elect Trump on Monday to take advantage of the "expertise and advice" of career diplomats at the State Department as the controversy surrounding the incoming president's recent call to Taiwan continues to boil over.

"Whenever you are talking about the president-elect interacting with foreign leaders, it's incredibly important. It has profound consequences for our country and for our national interests around the world," Earnest said in response to a reporter's question about whether Trump is "winging" his discussions with foreign leaders.

"Last week, we had some conversations about a conversation the president-elect had with the prime minister of Pakistan, and I noted in answering questions about that telephone call that President Obama, over the course of his eight years in the White House, has benefited significantly from the expertise, advice and experience of career diplomats at the State Department," he said. Earnest said that expertise is currently available to Trump and "will continue to be available to him when he enters the Oval Office."

[mikeIII]

I agree with all that, and also support enlisting Russia to help cut China down to size. It’s the bizarre Pakistan-call that I have a problem with.

[GOPJ]

One look at the state of the world and there’s no reason to consult ‘STATE’/

Maybe the Secretary of State should be two jobs - one “Business Secretary of State” and one ‘what-we[got-now Secretary of State’

[Pilgrim's Progress]

>>>Isn’t that simply #Sand?<<<

Under normal circumstances . . . but not if you REALLY want to emphasis the POUND!

[Candor7]

White House press secretary Josh Earnest encouraged President-elect Trump on Monday to take advantage of the “expertise and advice” of career diplomats at the State Department>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

You mean the same State Department that organized Arab Spring, the destruction of Libya, a US ally, and the Assassination of Mohmar Qadaffi...destruction of The Great Man Made River ( 8th wonder of the world) and the genocide of thousands through deprevation of water, Benghazi, later releasing millions of refugees throughout the Middle East and the Levant, causing Putin to anex Crimea and Eastern Ukraine in order to keep migrant Muslims out of Russia....that State Department?

Yup, they sure are some experts! Sophomoric ba$tards, more like.

[Fred Nerks]

There has to be a reason why those white house press secs all look like they were reared on skimmed milk, there’s not been one whose features were memorable in all the last 8 years. Like little cub scouts, they front the podium, speak what their lords and masters have scripted and then they disappear never to be remembered, always replaced by another clone.
Thus they make the most inane, insulting, irrelevant pronouncements - while the potus, sitting in the oval office nods sagely...and the conservative, civilized world cringes or laughs outright.
My apologies to scouts, they grow up. This species never do, they multiply.

[Candor7]

You can see this dynamic on Fox news with “The Five” journalist Dana Perini who used to be GW Bushes press secretary.

Cute, but so very shallow and lightweight.Risking nothing, she gains little.Excellent puppet mouth piece for whatever cause of the moment she seizes.

She regards Trump as “gauche,” and has not yet learned to ‘tolerate” him, instead looking down her aquiline nose as if she is somewhat superior.Its actually rather humorous. Like a cat having her first $hit, she can’t believe that it stinks, LOL. She reflects the Bush family’s disdain for Trump perfectly.