Secretary of State Mike Pompeo abruptly cut off an interview with NPR today. He shouted his displeasure at being questioned about Ukraine, used repeated expletives, according to NPR's @NPRKelly, and asked, "Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?" https://t.co/dRZMxM5Foa
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While reading about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's recent blow-up, I couldn't help but think about the time not so long ago that he touted his "Christian leadership" on the official government webpage for his agency. Is bullying a reporter over a tough interview with profanities and questioning her intelligence how one shows Christian leadership? For that matter, wouldn't leadership of any kind whatsoever mean showing respect and support for one's personnel as well as having a broad understanding of the United States' mission in various countries and how that mission is impacted by our efforts, not one based on the political or geographical understanding of regular folks?
Regardless of whether most Americans or any Americans care about Ukraine, his intemperate outburst toward this reporter demonstrates a very poor face that he will be taking with him when he visits that country in the near-future.
I am not saying that I would be watching out for this trip to be rescheduled again, but these things do happen in this administration. But I would also imagine that such a visit, should it go on, might be very awkward. Maybe not terribly diplomatic.
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