UK rejects Trump's call to make Nigel Farage US ambassador

[deminks]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/world/donald-trump-nigel-farage-us-ambassador/index.html

London (CNN)The UK has rejected a suggestion by Donald Trump that it should appoint the figurehead of the Brexit movement, Nigel Farage, as ambassador to the US.

President-elect Trump caused diplomatic ripples when he said on Twitter that Farage, interim leader of the rightwing UK Independence Party, would "do a great job" in the post.

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But a spokesman for British Prime Minister Theresa May's office blocked the idea, telling CNN that the position was filled.

Trump's expression of a preference for UK ambassador to Washington was a startling break with diplomatic protocol. It is unheard of in recent years for any US official to make such a suggestion to an ally.

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:facepalm

[malaise]

1. You're about to see American Exceptionalism read

Imperialism on steroids - welcome to the Roman Empire Part 2

[SleeplessinSoCal]

2. or maybe he will explode.

I can envision it.

[malaise]

3. I would watch that

for real

[dhol82]

4. You mean this didn't come from the Onion?

[Solly Mack]

5. Gee, I can't imagine why.

Trump heard "leader of the free world" and assumed it meant he was the actual leader of other countries as well.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Listening to the BBC talking about this...

They had little good to say about Farage (a "loser" who couldn't land a seat in Parliament) and less good to say about Trump, who has no idea what diplomacy is about.

[Historic NY]

7. All on twitter, TRump the "twit" on Twitter.

That's how he will push his edicts.