Heather Nauert cited D-Day as the height of U.S.-German relations. Now she's headed to the U.N.

[KelleyKramer]

Gotta hand it to Trump, he only hires the best.

And he spent a lot of time yelling and screaming about how he would make the world respect the United States again

Well here it is ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trumps pick to be the US ambassador to the United Nations ....




Heather Nauert cited D-Day as the height of U.S.-German relations. Now she’s headed to the U.N.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/07/heather-nauert-cited-d-day-height-us-german-relations-now-shes-headed-un/?fbclid=IwAR3WjPFS-JoS6FbrZ79F1ehmJYg7XBMuIlsmN2x_kw0rQFKXhksp0e_45bA&utm_term=.fddc99d8f612



The United Nations came into existence to vanquish Germany, as 26 nations jointly pledged in 1942 not to surrender to “savage and brutal forces seeking to subjugate the world.”

Three-quarters of a century later, the woman who would soon become President Trump’s pick to represent the United States at the United Nations cited the D-Day landings — a cornerstone of this unwavering Allied pledge and the basis of the Nazi defeat on the Western Front — to showcase the strength of German-American relations.

“When you talk about Germany, we have a very strong relationship with the government of Germany,” Heather Nauert, the State Department’s spokeswoman, said in June. She added: “Looking back in the history books, today is the 71st anniversary of the speech that announced the Marshall Plan. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the D-Day invasion. We obviously have a very long history with the government of Germany, and we have a strong relationship with the government.”

While the Marshall Plan rebuilt Western Europe, including West Germany, in the ashes of Adolf Hitler’s quest for global domination, the D-Day comment raised eyebrows, with some suggesting it demonstrated a lack of historical understanding from the former “Fox & Friends” presenter who gained prominence on television during the Monica Lewinsky scandal but has no diplomatic experience. This critique is emerging again as she prepares to move to New York as the American ambassador to the United Nations, a role to which President Trump plans to nominate her.


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[northoftheborder]

1. Why is anyone surprised?

Par for the course: ignorance, incompetence, shallowness

[Guppy]

2. The administration

that never reads and specifically a history book.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Doesn't he know anyone with experience or who knows anything??

How many ambassadorships are yet to be filled, among other important positions?? Everything he does is unacceptable on so many levels - and that doesn't even address how many laws and norms he continues to violate every single day...

[DFW]

4. Well, she DID know that Germany was somehow involved in World War II

In Trumpworld, that counts as having enough knowledge of history for a professorship with tenure at Princeton.

[bdjhawk]

5. Bill Richardson said he was impressed with her

I was running errands and in and out of the car Sun morning and listening to MSNBC. Don’t know which show was on and who was doing the interview, but she (interviewer) basically set him up with a softball question to trash the new U.N. ambassador and and it was surprising when he said he had interactions with her and came away impressed. Said she clearly didn’t have diplomatic experience but he was impressed that she understood issues quickly when she was briefed. He said he thought she could do the same with the info from career Professionals in her new position.
Said the most important thing for UN Ambassador was to know what the Administrations position was and be able to represent it. I was really surprised he was so open minded about her.

[obamanut2012]

6. He said the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you claim

I even just relistened to make sure I hadn't heard wrong the first time. He said she was clearly unqualified. He is not impressed with her in the least.

Your post is misinformation.

[bdjhawk]

7. You must have heard a different interview

Because I heard exactly what I wrote. I was extremely surprised as I when I heard the question, I was expecting and hoping for him to completely trash her. And I don’t need to use ALL CAPS to prove my point.......

[obamanut2012]

11. NO, I didn't -- he said the OPPOSITE of what you cited

I can find what I cite all over the place, I cann't find what you cited once. Richardson did not say that. Maybe someone else did, but not him.

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. I thought that relationship was destroyed when they bombed Pearl Harbor. nt

[TSheehan]

9. Nah it was when they did 9/11.

America and Germany were BFFs 1941-1945, I tell ya...

[TSheehan]

10. If she is smart enough for this job then that was not a "gaffe" but a "very fine people" message.

Sinister dog whistle disguised as an embarassing comment, in other words.

I hope I’m wrong though.