As Pompeo marks one year in office, some say he has become more of an explainer-in-chief for an unorthodox president. A year defending Trump’s worldview.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens as President Trump talks with Austria’s chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, during a meeting in the Oval Office on Feb. 20. By Carol Morello Carol Morello National reporter focusing on foreign policy and State Department Email Bio Follow April 25 at 12:20 PM When Mike Pompeo became secretary of state a year ago, the State Department was broken and shellshocked.
“We’ll roll out on Friday the very beginnings of this understanding that matches swagger, what we’ll call the ethos of the 21st century diplomat,” Pompeo said in an interview. “And it walks through the work that we do and why we do it and why it’s important for each individual here to be part of that. I think we’ve made a lot of progress on that.”
Where his predecessor, Rex Tillerson, fought to bat down many ideas emanating from the White House, Pompeo has made clear that he and the State Department are there to advance the president’s agenda. Pompeo greets three Americans freed from imprisonment in North Korea at Joint Base Andrews on May 10, 2018. Pompeo has also distinguished himself from Tillerson by making savvy appointments, such as naming experienced diplomats as envoys to hotspots like Syria, North Korea and Afghanistan.
“It’s pretty easy to get a boost in morale when your first action is to stop the beating,” he said. “I give him a lot of credit for trying. But he has to work inside an administration that shows essentially a lot of contempt for professional federal workers.” “We inherited an Iran that was launching missiles at a rate that was unheard of,” he said. “We inherited an Iran that was on a permanent pathway to a nuclear weapons system and we inherited an Iran that had an economy that was growing — the growing economy that is deeply tied to its capacity to spread terror around the world. We reversed every one of those. That’s an enormous accomplishment.”
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