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Rafi Schwartz

Donald Trump is not the president and "envoy ambassadors" are not a real thing

If history has taught us anything, it’s that the nexus of “Donald Trump” and “foreign policy” is almost always a source of some serious fuckery. And like Karl Marx once famously noted: History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

This is why I can’t help but appreciate the grim humor inherent in the former president’s claim this week that he’d dispatched a “envoy ambassador” to visit the border between mutual antagonists Serbia and Kosovo on his behalf. Here, in full, is the press release Trump sent out Thursday, with the relevant part highlighted by me:

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