America’s foreign diplomats aren’t loving life since the Trump administration took office, with an astounding 98 percent expressing dissatisfaction with their jobs since the change in management at the State Department.

The New York Times reported that members of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) are feeling “demoralized and ignored” since President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio became their bosses, citing a report from the union that represents professional foreign service members that was released this week.

“The Foreign Service is in crisis,” said association President John Dinkelman. “Damage is being done to America’s diplomatic service that we will be paying for for decades to come.”

“Damage is being done to America’s diplomatic service that we will be paying for decades to come.” AFSA’s John Dinkelman on the findings of our new survey: https://t.co/wjXD26QwKa

— AFSA (@afsatweets) December 3, 2025

According to The New York Times, “Most of the survey’s more than 2,100 respondents said they were managing tighter budgets and greater workloads amid the Trump administration’s spending cuts, including drastic reductions in U.S. foreign aid. Eighty-six percent said it had become harder to carry out U.S. foreign policy. Just 1 percent reported an improvement.”

The paper cites dissatisfaction with Rubio in particular and the “sense among current and former U.S. officials” that “the department has become more political and less relevant.”

“Diplomats sense that their input is not welcome, especially if it diverges from President Trump’s views,” the Times reported, citing their dismay over feeling sidelined as the administration works to end the costly carnage in Ukraine.

“They have watched from the sidelines as much of America’s most sensitive diplomacy is conducted not by Mr. Rubio but by Trump insiders such as Steve Witkoff, a real estate mogul with no prior diplomatic experience, and Mr. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, often acting with little or no assistance from career diplomats. Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner traveled to Moscow this week to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia,” according to the paper.

The Times also cites hard feelings over Tammy Bruce, whom it dissed as a “former Fox News commentator with no background in foreign policy,” being nominated as deputy U.S. representative to the United Nations, and that Rubio had previously “asserted” that he “inherited a department infected by ‘left-wing activists’ when he took over at Foggy Bottom.

Last year, after Trump trounced then-Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, it was reported that the State Department offered what was described as a “cry session” for employees having difficulty coping with the reality that the Democrats lost.

You won’t read it in The New York Times, but one X user hit the bullseye.

Read between the lines in this one. “Diplomats” are unhappy with having to be excepted to follow the Trump foreign policy instead of their own.

U.S. Diplomats Report Broken Morale and Abandoned Careers https://t.co/SZOVGflzD4

— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) December 3, 2025

“America’s diplomatic capacity is being decimated from within. Since January 2025, as many as one in four members of the U.S. Foreign Service—the career professionals who implement American foreign policy—have resigned, retired, seen their agencies dismantled, or been removed from their posts. This unprecedented loss of personnel and institutional capacity puts U.S. global leadership and the safety of American citizens at serious risk,” reads the executive summary of the report that’s now posted to the AFSA’s website.

“As this report makes clear, a year of relentless attacks by the administration against these dedicated public servants has left our diplomatic corps in crisis — a vulnerability that our adversaries are all too happy to exploit,” Senate Foreign Service Caucus co-founder Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) who has championed the cause of MS-13 “gangbanger” Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is quoted on the union’s website.

State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott rejected the suggestion that the professional diplomats have been cut out.

“Secretary Rubio values candid insights from patriotic Americans who have chosen to serve their country,” Pigott said. “In fact, this administration reorganized the entire State Department to ensure those on the front lines — the regional bureaus and the embassies — are in a position to impact policies.”

“What we will not tolerate is people using their positions to actively undermine the duly elected president’s objectives,” he added, according to The New York Times.

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