Anxious about Trump? Try being a foreign ambassador

By Mary Jordan
March 17

... “Could we depend on the United States? We don’t know. I can’t tell you how the unpredictability we are seeing scares us” ...

More than 180 countries maintain embassies in Washington. A key aspect of an ambassador’s job is to report home on emerging U.S. policy shifts and cultivate working relationships with the White House and those who might be in the next administration ...

Five times recently, worried ambassadors have turned to Roett at meetings and asked, “Who would Donald Trump pick as his secretary of state?” ...

Several ambassadors said they found it troubling that Trump’s bashing of foreign countries and leaders seems to be a key part of his appeal to many American voters ...

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