What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[crazy canuck]

Example number 133544646 that the American political system is broken

[Zanza]

US to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US
Payment reimburses the company for two leases, one for a massive 3 GW wind farm.

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The Department of the Interior, which arranges leases of coastal sites for the development of wind farms, would end up returning about $1 billion to France's TotalEnergies, which has promised both to invest that money in US-based fossil fuel projects and to not do any further offshore wind development in the US.

Petrostate does petrostate things. Not looking good for renewables in the United States. Does not make sense for all those data centers they want to build either.

[Syt]

I was looking up something on the French Embassy's website (they had their flag decorations out last week) and looked at the French ambassador's CV on the website.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER
2020 - 2024: Director of Cultural, Educational, University and Scientific Diplomacy, Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs
2018 – 2020: Secretary General of the General Inspectorate of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs
2017: Deputy Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of State, Ministry of Ecological Transition and Solidarity
2015 - 2017: Deputy Director for the Americas and the Caribbean, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development
2012 - 2014: Adviser to the Diplomatic Cell, Presidency of the French Republic
2009 - 2012: Chargé de mission to the Director-General for Globalis ation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2005 – 2009: First Secretary in Madrid, French Embassy in Spain
2002 – 2005: Deputy Consul in Chicago, French Embassy in the United States
1999 – 2002: Desk officer in the Sub-Directorate for Central Europe, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

EDUCATION
2014 - 2015: Institute for Advanced Studies in National Defence (IHEDN)
1996 - 1997: Exchange student at the Vienna Business University (WU)
1994 - 1997: Graduate School of Business (HEC)

DÉCORATIONS
Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres
Médaille de la Défense nationale

I then looked up the ambassadors for Germany, UK, Russia, Italy, Spain ... all pretty similar. Career diplomats, over 2 or 3 decades of experience.

And then the American one.

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-7-wildest-european-ambassador-picks/

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Austria: The knight
Art Fisher, a real estate agent from North Carolina, is Trump's choice to be Austria's next U.S. ambassador. 

Fisher runs his family's real estate business in the western, largely rural part of the state. He is listed as a member of the Trumpettes, a group dedicated to electing Trump, and reportedly donated thousands to down ballot Republican candidates.

"He has been consistently ranked as a top broker in the area, and the State of North Carolina, representing many of the most astute clients in America," Trump wrote, adding Fisher "will make us proud in Austria!"

According to his website, Fisher "was recently Knighted and has become a member of the Dynastic Order of the Royal House of Bourbon, an Order whose membership includes United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa."

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I'm aware that the US ambassadorships are often rewards for political friends, but with the State Department heavily gutted thanks to DOGE & Co this seems even worse than usual.

[The Brain]

The ambassador is the message. For Sweden:

Ambassador Toretti is the former Chairman and CEO of S.W. Jack Drilling Company, then the largest land-based natural gas drilling company in the United States. She also served as the Chairman of S&T Bank, a publicly traded community bank based in Pennsylvania.