Posted on 08/09/2019 9:15:04 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A former Foreign Service officer whose resignation took effect this week tore into President Trump on Friday evening, labeling his administration cruel and incompetent.
“What’s different is kind of the naked unapologetic cruelty. That’s the first thing. The second thing is, you know, the sheer managerial incompetence of this administration. The rollout of the Muslim ban, that executive order, was disastrous,” Chuck Park said on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”
Park, who wrote a blistering op-ed this week about his time in the government under Trump, joined the Foreign Service in 2010 under former President Obama. He wrote this week that he could no longer be part of what he called the “Complacent State.”
“The past three years have felt like the house is on fire,” he said Friday. “And not only is it on fire, but there is a man purposely lighting more fires.”
“There is a slow buildup, and maybe I’ll call it moral distress, with each successive kind of tweet or action. I mean, it started with the Muslim ban, the executive order in January 2017. And then defending white nationalists after Charlottesville. It was family separation. It was revelations about squalid detention centers.”
Park also said he was frustrated by what he suggested was an erratic foreign policy in which prepared platforms would be reversed by Trump’s tweets.
“As an example, a cable will contain talking points for the day, let’s say on trade, and I am tasked with memorizing those talking points and finding meetings with senior foreign officials and delivering dutifully those talking points,” he said.
“And it is happening to me that, in a meeting with a foreign official, kind of mid-sentence, that official that I’m talking to will pick up their cell phone and point to a tweet from the president that directly contradicts what I’m saying in person.”
The Foreign Service falls under the State Department, which has seen its diplomatic corps around the world thinned, particularly among its top tier with 30 ambassadorships remaining vacant, according to the American Foreign Service Association.
Please excuse me while I vent.
I AM SO F'IN FED UP WITH THESE GD P*SSYS WHO FAIL TO SEE PRESIDENT TRUMP IS TRYING TO FIX THESE PROBLEMS.
WE'RE IN THE MESS WE'RE IN BECAUSE WHAT WE HAVE DONE IN THE PAST HASN'T WORK AND HAS ONLY MADE THINGS WORSE.
TO FIX THESE PROBLEMS WE HAVE TO IMPLEMENT NEW POLICIES AND STOP DOING WHAT DOESN'T WORK.
APPARENTLY THESE PEOPLE BELIEVE IF WE KEEP BANGING OUR HEADS AGAINST THE WALL THINGS WILL EVENTUALLY GET BETTER.
I wanted trying get rid of some of my frustration but frankly, it didn't help.
I fully understand this post or my comments will be removed.
Thank-you for being understanding.
>> labeling his administration cruel and incompetent.
Is he filing for a divorce???
What a Demputz
Why would this be removed?
I write worse than this 10 times a day :)
You just spelled posse wrong :)
ROFL!!!
He was an obummer guy so yeah he’s a snowflake
“...joined the Foreign Service in 2010 under former President Obama.”
Pretty much stopped right there.
That Twump is sutch a beast!
These guys should have been fired Day One after Trump took over.
It's these disgusting snowflakes, from the wee barry admin and the uber corrupt ones from Clintons' and perhaps even earlier ones, who are corrupt and blind, and refuse to adjust to the NEW boss who need to all go!
Leading from behind was more his style.
an Obola hangover should have been purged long ago
EXACTLY!
Joined during obxxx fantasy, doesn’t care for reality. See ya wussie.
Bingo
This butthurt snowflake was probably the Student Body president in high school.
I’m still waiting for cannoli’s but hold off for a white. The heat index was 110 today and will be the same all week.
Maybe I’ll go back to Philly and pop a fire hydrant open for some relief?
I retired too from the foreign service at 55 simply because of his liberal ilk. State under Obama was immoral and betrayed our allies.... Another one the Smartest Person in the Room Club, aka, State.
The entire State Department should be fired from the very bottom to the top and replaced with patriotic veterans.
Yet while Obama was in office the identical cruelty was beneath Chuck Park’s notice.
Hi.
“joined the Foreign Service in 2010 under former President Obama. “
I think I see the problem.
5.56mm
110??
My carcass would be laying in the street within an hour.
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