North Korea berated the U.S. Thursday for denouncing its ballistic missile tests at a United Nations Security Council meeting. U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft said at the meeting Wednesday that Pyongyang’s missile tests were “deeply counterproductive” and threatened talks to get North Korea to abandon its missile and nuclear programs. A North Korean Foreign […]
WASHINGTON – When President Donald Trump picked Gordon Sondland as his ambassador to the European Union in March 2018, the nomination was seen as improbable. The self-made millionaire hotel magnate and longtime Republican donor had disavowed Trump’s candidacy during the 2016 campaign because of his anti-immigrant rhetoric. But after Trump won the election, Sondland gave $1 million to the […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday called British ambassador Kim Darroch “a very stupid guy,” a new taunt aimed at undercutting the envoy’s assessment that Trump is “inept” and “incompetent.” “The wacky Ambassador that the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with,” Trump said on Twitter. […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he would “no longer deal” with Britain’s ambassador to Washington after the key envoy disparaged him as “inept,” “insecure” and “incompetent,” and his administration as “uniquely dysfunctional.” “I do not know the Ambassador,” Trump said on Twitter about diplomat Kim Darroch, “but he is not liked […]