Mike Pompeo's #Swagger hashtag diplomacy is an international embarrassment.
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/13/state-department-mike-pompeo-swagger-donald-trump-219867
Mike Pompeo’s #Swagger hashtag diplomacy is an international embarrassment.
By DAVID WADE
September 13, 2018
On Monday, coupled with the launch of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s Instagram account, the State Department launched a campaign rebranding itself the “Department of Swagger.”
Replete with a composite photo of William Shakespeare, Gen. George S. Patton and Pompeo (because the Bard and Old Blood and Guts all had #swagger, apparently. Who knew?) and a PhotoShopped State Department seal now ringed by the words DEPARTMENT OF SWAGGER, the not-so-soft relaunch is the diplomatic version of New Coke. Put aside the fact that the department’s catchphrase sounds more like a product line of Old Spice deodorant than a label for a venerated institution that’s been led by American icons from Thomas Jefferson to Dean Acheson. Yes, it’s a long strange trip from “present at the creation” to “swagger.”
The new slogan is the latest indication that the administration is misdiagnosing State’s real problems: understaffing and under-resourcing to the point of wholesale dysfunction, the damage to America’s reputation in the world and a five-letter millstone dragging down our diplomats that’s spelled T-R-U-M-P. #Swagger misdiagnoses one problem—a hollowed out civilian force—and exacerbates another: managing the perception of arrogance and reckless unilateralism.
#Swagger sounds like a tagline on a Cialis commercial. To run the State Department, it takes a village—not Viagra. And right now at the State Department there is not even a small village. Forty out of 100 major management jobs are vacant, and five of six undersecretary positions are unfilled by Senate-confirmed appointees. We don’t even have nominees for ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan or Australia. Anything happening in those countries where you might want a chief of mission?................................
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Not inclusive enough. This ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION is an international embarrassment! 
