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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/

atreides1
(16,793 posts)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
(119 posts)Ocelot II
(126,090 posts)Trump says Shit, he asks, What color? He's come (or descended) a long way from where he was in 2016:
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."
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
(57,178 posts)Norbert
(7,170 posts)So we have to refer to the prime minister, Mr. Japan now.
You win the thread
Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)
struggle4progress
(123,806 posts)Marthe48
(21,286 posts)lie like a rug. Rinse and repeat
mahina
(19,915 posts)That sounds ominous. And vile!!!!
Ping Tung
(3,068 posts)Passages
(3,273 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(177,975 posts)So now they're trying to regulate speech. Good luck with that.
Kid Berwyn
(21,362 posts)
Stupid, greedy and psychotic is so in!
DFW
(58,514 posts)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
(36,813 posts)Like that?
Initech
(105,687 posts)