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babylonsister

(172,262 posts) Fri Jul 18, 2025, 09:51 AM Jul 18

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Rubio Tells All U.S. Diplomats They Have to Talk Like Trump

Rubio Tells All U.S. Diplomats They Have to Talk Like Trump
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Envoys have been told to ask “Would the President say this?” before commenting on world affairs.
Tom Sanders
Reporter
Updated Jul. 18 2025 8:12AM EDT
Published Jul. 18 2025 7:42AM EDT

Marco Rubio has instructed U.S. diplomats not to comment on the legitimacy or fairness of foreign elections, breaking with decades of American diplomatic practice.

The memo, sent to all Foreign Service officers overseas, states that U.S. missions abroad will no longer be issuing election-related statements or social media posts unless there is a “clear and compelling” foreign policy reason for doing so.

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The only legitimate election-related messages from now on should come from the secretary of state himself, the president, or an official department spokesperson, the memo read, warning diplomats not to speak on such issues without explicit approval.

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The move marks a wider shift by the Trump administration to downplay the promotion of democracy and human rights around the globe, as the president increasingly cosies up to autocratic leaders and pushes his “America First” approach to foreign policy.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/marco-rubio-bans-diplomats-from-criticizing-foreign-elections/

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Rubio Tells All U.S. Diplomats They Have to Talk Like Trump (Original Post) babylonsister Jul 18 OP

Marco is a Castro advocate!!! atreides1 Jul 18 #1

More like a castrated advocate Hey Joe Jul 18 #13

Little Marco folded like a cheap lawn chair once he got that big SoS job. Ocelot II Jul 18 #2

Little bdamomma Jul 18 #15

Does it mean they have to talk at Grade 5 level? They have to lie continually? They have to simulate dementia often? Bernardo de La Paz Jul 18 #3

Not the Onion Norbert Jul 18 #4

HA! mahina Jul 18 #9

Random capitalization and quotation markings are now the Law of the "Land" Prairie Gates Jul 18 #5

Before speaking, our diplomats must apply orange spray-tan and wear a bigly beautiful red tie struggle4progress Jul 18 #6

man woman camera Marthe48 Jul 18 #7

Oh shit. What do they know is coming? mahina Jul 18 #8

Do they also have to wear the same make up he does? Accumulate Trophy spouses? Ping Tung Jul 18 #10

So there is a sociopaths class they all must take before speaking. ok Passages Jul 18 #11

Will these diplomats be taught to speak in word salad greatauntoftriplets Jul 18 #12

Who's that model remind me of? Kid Berwyn Jul 18 #14

So America no longer has a top diplomat DFW Jul 18 #16

American Ambassador to British PM, "Crying Keir Starmer is low energy, total low iq" Swede Jul 18 #17

Remember when we used to have nice things in this country? Initech Jul 18 #18

atreides1

(16,799 posts)

1. Marco is a Castro advocate!!!

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 09:55 AM

Jul 18

His parents came to America to find something different...they should have just stayed in Cuba...little Marco would have been the perfect Cuban diplomat!

Hey Joe

(128 posts)

13. More like a castrated advocate

Reply to atreides1 (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 12:19 PM

Jul 18

Ocelot II

(126,300 posts)

2. Little Marco folded like a cheap lawn chair once he got that big SoS job.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:04 AM

Jul 18

Trump says Shit, he asks, What color? He's come (or descended) a long way from where he was in 2016:

Marco Rubio on Friday unleashed a full-frontal assault against Donald Trump, blasting him as a "con artist" who is hijacking the conservative movement and mercilessly mocking Trump's alpha-male status.

At a rally here, the U.S. senator from Florida unveiled what amounted to his most comprehensive — and scathing — critique of Trump yet, declaring it "time to pull off his mask so that people can see what we are dealing with here."

"He is a con artist," Rubio said. "He runs on this idea he is fighting for the little guy, but he has spent his entire career sticking it to the little guy — his entire career."

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/26/dallas-rubio-eviscerates-con-artist-trump/

bdamomma

(68,901 posts)

15. Little

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 12:51 PM

Jul 18

Marco wants to be President in 2028. Thus, he is kissing the ring, he has sold himself to this sick evil regime.

Bernardo de La Paz

(57,295 posts)

3. Does it mean they have to talk at Grade 5 level? They have to lie continually? They have to simulate dementia often?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:06 AM

Jul 18

Norbert

(7,193 posts)

4. Not the Onion

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:08 AM

Jul 18

So we have to refer to the prime minister, Mr. Japan now.

mahina

(19,941 posts)

9. HA!

Reply to Norbert (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:17 AM

Jul 18

You win the thread

Prairie Gates

(5,732 posts)

5. Random capitalization and quotation markings are now the Law of the "Land"

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:09 AM

Jul 18

struggle4progress

(123,889 posts)

6. Before speaking, our diplomats must apply orange spray-tan and wear a bigly beautiful red tie

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:11 AM

Jul 18

Marthe48

(21,377 posts)

7. man woman camera

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:14 AM

Jul 18

lie like a rug. Rinse and repeat

mahina

(19,941 posts)

8. Oh shit. What do they know is coming?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:15 AM

Jul 18

That sounds ominous. And vile!!!!

Ping Tung

(3,162 posts)

10. Do they also have to wear the same make up he does? Accumulate Trophy spouses?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:27 AM

Jul 18

Passages

(3,383 posts)

11. So there is a sociopaths class they all must take before speaking. ok

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:30 AM

Jul 18

greatauntoftriplets

(178,005 posts)

12. Will these diplomats be taught to speak in word salad

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 11:54 AM

Jul 18

So now they're trying to regulate speech. Good luck with that.

Kid Berwyn

(21,514 posts)

14. Who's that model remind me of?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 12:44 PM

Jul 18

Stupid, greedy and psychotic is so in!

DFW

(58,592 posts)

16. So America no longer has a top diplomat

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 02:05 PM

Jul 18

We have a top propaganda stooge.

Well, we can't do anything about that, but if anyone in the Trump administration thinks that there is a foreign minister out there who doesn't see through the scam, they are fooling themselves. We can't stop them from making fools of themselves, but I refuse to let them prevent me from informing people in other countries that the majority of the people of our country are not as obtuse or as evil as the ones who currently run the place.

I have no official diplomatic status, but I speak nine languages, as opposed to the Republicanese that appears to be the only language they know. I like my chances.

Swede

(36,892 posts)

17. American Ambassador to British PM, "Crying Keir Starmer is low energy, total low iq"

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 02:09 PM

Jul 18

Like that?

Initech

(105,771 posts)

18. Remember when we used to have nice things in this country?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 02:12 PM

Jul 18

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