Tuesday 9 October 2018

Nikki Haley is a superstar and will be back!

Not many of Trump's cabinet members have stood out as superstar quality, but Nikki Haley, America's UN ambassador, has certainly been one of them. She has been in the forefront of many of Trump's key decisions and has always adopted a tough, read-my-lips approach when addressing the rest of the Security Council on the really big topics. This is probably sexist in today's world, but Ambassador Haley just sounds and looks the part. She always looks good. She is an attractive woman and I don't care what people might say but looking good helps, whether male or female. I can think of one high-ranking female ambassador to the UN who looks shambolic when she speaks. Nikki Haley always radiates confidence and everyone listens. Now she has resigned and although it appears to be for all the right reasons - she wants some time off from the intense pressures - I sincerely hope she returns to frontline politics at some time in the near future. Trump said at the press conference announcing her resignation today that she could have the pick of jobs whenever she returns. How about White House chief of staff when General John Kelly has had enough? Or she could be a future secretary of state when Mike Pompeo moves on, as he surely will unless he can wrap up the North Korea nuclear negotiations before 2020. Nikki Haley will step down at the end of the year but I bet within six months Trump will be begging her to come back. The other superstars in Trump's cabinet, by the way, are few and far between. Jim Mattis at the Pentagon is not exactly superstar status but is invaluable as a stalwart warrior, Pompeo has the toughest job of all but needs to buy better suits, General John Kelly, in his own quiet controlling way, is quite a dude with superstar dust on his shoulders, Jeff Sessions, attorney general, has no charisma, John Bolton could never be described as a superstar, not with that moustache, but you don't mess with him, Kirstjen Nielson at Homeland Security I know very little about but she couldn't even have a bit part in Homeland, and all the rest are nondescript with unmemorable faces. Apart from Gina Haspel, the cabinet-level director of the CIA. I think she could turn out to be a star but not if she wears that ghastly ankle-length skirt she appeared in a few months ago when she introduced her new team and had a photograph taken inside the CIA at Langley, Virginia. Now that really is a sexist remark, for which many apologies! But Nikki Haley, don't be away too long. The US of A needs you.

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