By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES
Throughout President Donald Trump’s two-year-old administration, he has rewarded those who are loyal and trustworthy with plum cabinet positions despite a lack of experience. The president’s selection for his new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations is no exception to this creed. Trump has picked State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert to be America’s new UN ambassador. Nauert’s resume is thin on government service, and most blatantly, lacks any international/diplomatic experience. However, her resume reveals she come straight out of the Fox News factory of pro-Trump journalists, like others, to go on to work for the 45th U.S. President. Nauert worked for Fox News from 1998 to 2005. She then left to go work for ABC News but returned back home to Fox in 2007 and went on to become presenter for Fox & Friends. Then in 2017, she became State Department spokeswoman despite a lack of government experience. One would have to be living on another planet these past two years of the Trump administration to not see that Fox is the president’s biggest fan and media supporter. Nauert has been a loyal, polished advocate for President Trump’s “America First” policy at the State Department.
If confirmed to the high-profile UN post, Nauert would be one of the most inexperienced UN ambassadors in history. However, with Trump administration’s plan to downgrade the American diplomatic posting to a non-Cabinet position, Nauert would have a lower profile and status than the previous US Ambassadors to UN. Nauert still needs to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate for the UN posting.
“In terms of what we normally look for at the United Nations, her résumé is very thin,” David Gergen, the veteran presidential aide, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday night. He said the role of U.N. representative was not a “communications job” but rather “a place where we conduct active diplomacy with nations around the world.”
