Designer of Toilet Big Enough for MAGA Assholes Tapped as NATO Ambassador [View all]

[Kid Berwyn]

Matt Whittaker, designer of the Masculine Toilet, has been nominated to serve as the United States Ambassador to NATO. I kid you not.

“The other remarkable thing is how stunningly unqualified everyone is. I don’t see anyone there who I think, ‘Now there’s a highly qualified person.’” -- Dennis Jett, an international relations professor at Pennsylvania State University and author of a book on the history of US ambassadors

Trump’s ‘stunningly unqualified’ diplomatic team shapes up at breakneck speed

Trump is hardly the first US president to introduce miscast nominees, but he has nominated ambassadors at a rate not recalled in recent memory

by Robert Tait
The Guardian, December 21, 2024

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Their lack of credentials has prompted one experienced foreign policy analyst to label them a “diplomatic clown car” – and a deliberate affront to the countries hosting them.

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Thomas Countryman, a former assistant secretary of state during Barack Obama’s presidency, said the nominations raised fears about the quality of US foreign policy in vital areas, as well as conflicts of interest.

“An unqualified person like Herschel Walker can only do so much damage in the Bahamas,” he said.

“But at a place like the permanent mission to Nato, having a person with zero diplomatic experience and almost no managerial experience negotiating some of the most difficult issues that Europe and the United States must face together is a recipe not just for misunderstanding, but for failure to reach the kind of consensus and compromise that obviously requires.”

On Barrack (Tom Barrack, named to serve as US Ambassador to Turkey), he added: “I think that disentangling the private profit interests of Mr Trump and Mr Barrack from the professional work that Barrack would need to do in Ankara will be difficult, not least because of its non-transparency.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/trump-team-cabinet

If not the biggest shits themselves, MAGA are among the biggest assholes in the world.