“The United Nations is the big leagues of diplomacy. This is not the place to learn the ropes.”
On Friday, Trump announced that he had selected a new UN ambassador. America’s representative at the United Nations is a key diplomatic position, giving the country a voice at the highest levels of the international community.
Who did he pick? Heather Nauert – a former Fox News anchor with no experience in international politics whose only governmental qualifications are 20 months as a State Department spokesperson, during which time she cited the D-Day landings as evidence of the “strong relationship” between the governments of the US and Germany, and six months as acting under-secretary of state for public affairs.
Unlike her predecessor, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, Nauert will not get a seat in Trump’s cabinet, and therefore will serve largely as a mouthpiece for the administration via Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
