Quote Originally Posted by Poopadoop View Post
There's all kinds of fallout from sacking an ambassador 'on a whim'. That's why it doesn't happen.
It happens. Check out the guy I mentioned. The government need only cite "national interest" as the reason, and the ambassador can do jack about it. The best he can hope for is his contract to be paid up in full. That's if he's lucky and they don't try to throw some dirt at him.

Again, someone is already there. There's no reason to think he's incompetent or in any way impeded from talking to the US about foreign affairs.
There's been an unexpected change of leadership. I would consider replacing the ambassador if I felt it furthered our interests.

Sure that's one solution. But the issue is that Trump didn't raise the possibility in private which would be showing us some respect. He made his view public and put our gov't in an embarrassing position.
Fair point.