Donald Trump unilaterally fires all of Obama's ambassadors. This will allow Trump to create a new set of diplomats appointment for their talents rather than how much they donated to the Democrats.

Obama's 'operation sabotage' has just backfired. Reports coming out of Washington say that Donald Trump has unilaterally told all Obama US ambassadors abroad, 'you're fired'.

This comes after Obama's expulsion of Russian diplomatic officials and their families just prior to western Christmas.

The New York Times first reported that a State Department cable was sent to all ambassadors on December 23 informing them they have to vacate their posts by Jan. 20 "without exceptions."

Trump has been taking to Twitter to express his consternation over Obama's campaign of hatred against Russia in his final weeks in power.

By sacking many Obama appointed diplomats, Trump is both symbolically and materially taking the wind out of the foreign policy sails of the Democrats.

The move however has implications beyond the tit for tat psychological war being waged between a lame-duck Obama and the President-elect.

Trump had long derided Obama for rewarding important diplomatic positions to those who gave substantial financial contributions to his campaign. Famously, Trump mocked Obama for making Caroline Kennedy the US Ambassador to Japan because 'she was bored'.

Ambassadorial roles must be taken more seriously by the US. Recently LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky spoke in front of the Duma about the need to have more highly educated ambassadors who have an extensive knowledge about the countries to which they are posted. I can assure the LDPR leader that Russia is lightyears ahead of the US in this respect, especially when it comes to ambassadorial positions to large, important countries; allies or otherwise.

Whilst the mainstream media criticise Donald Trump for being a loving father to his children, the reality is that Obama practiced cronyism in politics, far more than Trump ever did in business.

The idea that one could buy an ambassadorial position in an age of terrorism, strained relations between superpowers, and economic uncertainty, is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.

I remain optimistic that as he has already done with his ambassadorial appointment to China, Trump will continue to appoint ambassadors based on talent rather than boredom.

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Fantastic.

I think it's S.O.P. for new presidents to do this. Obama fired all of Bush appointed ambassadors.

It's a shame you still can't bring yourself to use proper names, instead of childish insult tags.

By the way, lest you imagine that this is another special accomplishment on the part of Trump, foreign ambassadors are ALWAYS changed when the administrations leadership changes.

This is because (as the Republican Senate and House have entirely forgotten) negotiation with foreign nations is, according to the Constitution, the job of the Executive branch.

A new room sweeps clean, this is done all the time. He wants his own team in there, as he should.

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It's simple mechanics. If you read and understand the Constitution, you see that the Executive Branch, which means the part led and controlled by the President, is in charge of interacting with foreign governments.

This means that although ambassadors are often spoken of, as representing the United States, what they actually represent is the President him or herself.

If you pay attention, you will see that even when the new person coming into the Presidency is of the SAME PARTY AS THE PREVIOUS ONE, that all the ambassadors submit their resignations, so that the new guy can choose his own people.

When Bush #1 replaced Reagan, although he didn't bother to replace all the Republican ambassadors from Reagan's eight years, they all submitted resignations and were reassigned officially, so that it was clear who they were representing was the sitting President.